Sunday, March 18, 2012

Pictorial Illustration Of Abolitionism, 1844


Abolitionism divided the  M.E. Church with its more than a million of membership, by introducing a new test of membership, although Mr. Wesley, in 1784, when the Church was organized, did not make slave-holding a test.  It never had been a test of membership from the Apostolic day until this time.  

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