original builders have no right what ever
( see deed of settlement in Book of discipline
;) and, indeed, we know instances in which
local ministers leave vested large sums of
money for the purpese of erecting houses of public
worship, who because the have united with
the Reformers are prohibited from preaching
in these same houses, and other men who
built them not, are enjoying the use of them. we
say the meeting houses, chapels, parsonages,
colleges, and academics in the Methodist Episcopal
church are the exclusive property of the clergy,
to which the membership have no claim. and,
indeed, the laity in said church, according to
book of discipline are taught the doctrine of sub:
mission or exclusion I am aware, sir, that in
sections of country where prodestant methodism
is popular some parts of the discipline of the M.
Episcopal church is dispensed with, classes are
sometimes allowed so to elect their own leaders;
preachers and leaders admit of open doors in love
feasts and class-meetings: they invite chris:
:tians of all denominations to unite with them
in the means of grace, without reference to
the numbers of times the may have previously
been present. now, sir; what is this but sail:
:ing under a false Flag? why not at once
repeal the hateful laws, declare by their book
of discipline that they are Reformers in
principale, and not where circumstances call
for it: adopt the usages of the Methodist protesta
:nt church, and then to made every thing
appear right, tell the world there is no
difference between the forms of government
if light and darkness are alike, then are we
antagonist branches of the church alike. piracy
I hate with a mortal hatred: a ship sailing under
the false flag of liberty withe the manacles,
fetters and implements of slavery on board
ought to be over hauled, her crew and officers
arested, and her crime exposed to the detestation
of the world: but the ship that at all times: under
all circumstances, sails under her own proper
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