A Manual Of The Discipline Of The Methodist Episcopal Church South

Excerpt from A Manual of the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South: Including the Decisions of the College of Bishops; And Rules of Order Applicable to Ecclesiastical Courts and Conferences Joshua Soule, who drafted the Constitution, said, in 1824: The General Conference held and exercised unlimited power until 1812, because they met en massc, and not by virtue of their election or delegation. This was felt to be a dangerous state of things, and unfair to the more distant portions of the work. And one great, controlling motive in introducing the representa tive principle was to lessen the danger of sudden and violent changes in the fundamental polity of the Church, by establishing a delegated legislative body, under restrictions - thus insuring stability to the ganie institutions, and equality in representation. It matters not by what name these restrictive rules may be called; [he called it a the design and efi'ect were to take questions enumerated from under the control of the delegated Conference, except in the way and manner specified. (life and Times of Mc Kendres, Vol. II., p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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