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i 1 * W&tchfoao > * vhat of the night ? Watchman j what of the night 7 The WaNihm an said , f he morumg cometii , and also the night . " Isaiah xxi . W V 2 f ~ : t ^^ j ^^ ^ Mr , Wesley , which took place ia ' t ^ . y ^ ir 1 ^ 7 $ ^ was the occasion of throwing the elements of the Methodist bod y * which * with , a staQnghapd ^ lie had kept repressed , and with an outstretched arm directed , into gr , eat and alar mi ng- confusion . The head enchanter was gone , and the minor spirits began to strive one with another . Distinctions existed in the iC
Conference which were obnoxious . The hundred 11 formed ail itnperitmi in imperio . Possessing the chief power , they secured for themselves the most lucrative stations . The pre-eminence tney enjoyed was scarcely due to their tajents , and some aspiring young men , conscious of superior powers , laboured to divide the benefits of their elevation with them . In the end these aspirants got the mastery , and now form the oligarchy that rules the Conference * There was another source of dissension . Wesley had , in a moment auspicious to his ambitious views , been taught that there was no distinction of order between Presbyters and Bishops . After ineffectually
coquetting with the English hierarchy and with a Greek bishop , he therefore thought himself at liberty to practise an imposition ( of hands ) not only for America , as we before mentioned , but for England also . ** He set apart ( ftfyles in his history tells us ) for the sacred office by the imposition of hands and prayer , Messrs . Alexander Mather , Thomas Rankin , and Henry Mppn , without sending them out of England . " Why Mr . Wesley , himself
a Presbyter , and convinced that Presbyters and Bishops were the same in the early church , should , or how he could , make one of these a bishop , we cannot explain . But such is the fact . " The former of these brethren , ( says the same historian , ) Mr . Mather , he ordained a bishop or superintend * antS y Those who had received the holy unction thought themselves superipjj to . their , fellow ? -workers . The distinction of ordained . and unordaiued bec ^ nie invidious . Holy orders were much coveted . The mocK , or ; dinations . o £ ' .. thje new apostle John were in consequence acted over , again and agajjQ ^ at the , nieje will of these apocryphal clergy , till ttye Conference J&haw ;*
ing . tliaij the stock of unction possessed by certain of . their ppciy w , a $ A ? t ^ i $ e . tl ^ e witj pw ' s , cruise of oil , or fearing that a good thing might losje , ij ^ v ^ twe by be , coniing . comaion , or wishing in this ^ as in all pther , cases ^ to > : ^ meting , decreed that any brother receiving or givipg ordinatiph - ^ ilft ^ ut tl ^ eir consent , did in future , by tbe mere act , exclude hiniself ^ ftofPi Jt ^ ^ cdu ^
There was , however , one point in which these neyv--f ^ s hif ) ned c } e ^ gyj agr ^ pretty ^ 11 , jThe j > ower which Mr . Wesl ey ^ ^ d ;^ p ^ Witte 4 fM ^ o % arcfyy yfas ^ alpspl v ^ -f Tp b ^ copne member jof t ^ . ohgargh ^ aO ^§ fii i ^ tur ^ n a ^ r ^ , a ^ dt a ^ ww ^^ refore conce ne 4 tp Jiofd t ^« e ^^ fa « t , uUfe ^ bondage in which they had received them frQn ^; tte It is difficult to imagine a more complete organ of lyranny than was-the Methodist Conference in the year 1792 . It united in itself the legislative , the judicial , and the executive powers .. The Conference made the laws at its annual meetings , the members of the Conference executed the laws , and judged delinquents in their ^ several stations through the country . It possessed the sole right of property in some hundreds of chapels . It had immense
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/31/
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