Excerpt from Letters on the Organization and Early History of the Methodist Episcopal Church Although the question cannot now be asked, has the Methodist Episcopal Church been divided? This fact being known in eve part of the United States, if not in every part of the civilized worl it may be asked, as it has been asked already by some, had the General Conference of '44 any right, power, or authority to divide the church into two parts, the church, north and the church, south, each part being independent of the other, and if so whence did it derive this authority? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.