Excerpt from The Polity of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States: Being an Exposure of the Spurious Origin of the Methodist Episcipacy My object in calling attention to this passage, is to cor rect an error which seems unaccountably to prevail, about the control of Methodist church property. You will per haps be surprised to learn that the clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church do not own a church or a parsonage in the United States - and that the acknowledged pastor of a Methodist Church cannot take up a ...
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Excerpt from The Polity of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States: Being an Exposure of the Spurious Origin of the Methodist Episcipacy My object in calling attention to this passage, is to cor rect an error which seems unaccountably to prevail, about the control of Methodist church property. You will per haps be surprised to learn that the clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church do not own a church or a parsonage in the United States - and that the acknowledged pastor of a Methodist Church cannot take up a collection in it, or even invite any other than a Methodist preacher to preach in it, without the assent of the trustees. You will also be sur prised to learn, that the Methodist Churches in this city be long to a corporation consisting of all the male members above the age of twenty-one years. The preachers have no control over the current funds of the church. The means of ministerial support are raised by weekly contributions in class meetings. These are received by the leaders, who are all lay men, and by them paid over to the stewards, who are laymen. When a preacher is sent by the bishop to a particular sta tion, he is met by a committee of laymen appointed by lay men, who inquire into the probable wants of his family, and fix the amount of his salary. The preacher has no right to stipulate for compensation. He must take What is offered him; and should the stewards not be able to pay what they promised, (which unfortunately often happens, ) by_ari ex press article of the discipline, it is provided that the church shall not be accountable for the deficiency, as in case of debt. On the other hand, if a preacher be sent to a station, and the stewards, sustained by the membership, refuse to make any provision for him, he has no means of obtaining a cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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