This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...members of their churches giving to their assumptions of temporal as well as spiritual power, has a direct tendency to encourage than to exercise that power in controlling the affairs of the State for their own advancement, and so as to secure the continuance of their power unmolested. The man who can see and feel it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...members of their churches giving to their assumptions of temporal as well as spiritual power, has a direct tendency to encourage than to exercise that power in controlling the affairs of the State for their own advancement, and so as to secure the continuance of their power unmolested. The man who can see and feel it right to exercise a bishop's office in the Episcopal Methodist Church, can scarcely see it wrong to exercise a monarch's office in the State, for both are alike, and equally antiAmerican." LETTER XIII. Thc opinion of others given to corroborate the sentiments of the foregoing Letters of the late Bishop tiuscom, D.D. Dr. F. A. Huts O. 6'. I'lesbyleiian Dear Sir: --HAT yon, Bishop McTycire, and those who may road these letters may see that I am not singular in my opinions of the unscriptnral and anti-scriptural, oppressing and degrading character of the government of your Methodism, I will submit the published views of those who have been your honored Bishops, editors of your Church papers and standard writers of other denominations as well as your own. If I am to be regarded j-our enemy, as well as of your people, because I have tol 1 you the truth, must you not in justice and fairness divide your animosity fairly between your own bishops, editors and writers, and.the prominent scholars of other denominations as well as myself? It will be by no means just for me to bear the whole weight of the alleged offense. I will first introduce in addition to the several articles on church polity in.former letters, an article upon the Government of the M. E. Church, written by Bishop Bascotn, when, as a traveling preacher, he was being ground under the weight of the Great Iron Wheel, over the signature of " Neale" in the Mutual Rights. There i...
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