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Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1998. (В файле 261 с.). For some years the infant Churches of American Methodism were content with humble "Quarterly Conferences" as their only judicatories or synods. These were held mostly in obscure places, their sessions occupying but a day or two, their members consisting of a few Itinerants, Local Preachers, Exhorters, and subordinate officials, gathered from neighboring circuits, and their records so slight, or deemed so unimportant, that I am not aware that an official copy of any of them remains. Not till Rankin arrived, as "assistant" of Wesley, did they hold an Annual Conference. But two of these annual sessions were held prior to our present period, both in Philadelphia, the first in 1773, the second in 1774. The printed records of both scarcely cover a page and a half of the octavo Minutes. Both have already been as fully noticed as these records, and other contemporary sources of information, allow. In the ten years now under review one session at least was held annually; in five of these years (1779 - 1783) ten took place; in the last year of the period (1784) there were no less than three, the final one being the memorable epoch of t

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Author

Stevens Abel.

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EN

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nonfiction

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Christian, Religion, Christianity