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1. Did the founders of Zion Church retain the doctrines of the Church from which they withdrew?
A. They did.
2. What part of the title adopted shows the doctrine and form of government?
A. Methodist Episcopal.
3. What is a Methodist Episcopal Church?
A. It is a Methodist Church which believes in the Episcopal form of church government.
4. What is peculiar to that form?
A. An order of ministers consisting of Elders who by a third ordination are authorized to perform certain duties.
5. What are some of these duties?
A. To ordain other ministers and to hold certain meetings of the ministers and laity called conferences.
6. What name is applied to ministers who are ordained and authorized to perform those duties?
A. Bishops.
7. What were Methodist Bishops at first called?
A. Superintendents.
8. Who were the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church?
A. John Wesley, Thomas Coke, Francis Asbury and other ministers of the Church of England.
9. When was the Methodist Church organized?
A. In 1739, in London, England.
10. What is peculiar to the Methodist Church?
A. An itinerant ministry appointed for a limited time to the pastorate by the Bishop or presiding officer of an annual Conference.
11. What else is characteristic of the Methodist Churches
A. Exhorters, local preachers, class-meetings and love feasts.
12. What else is characteristic of the Methodist Churches
A. The observance of certain regulations of conduct called the General Rules.
13. Are there any Methodist churches which are not Episcopal in their form of government?
A. Yes, such as Wesleyan Methodist, the Protestant Methodist, the Congregational Methodist, etc.
14. What may all such churches be called?
A. Non-Episcopal Methodist Churches.
15. When was the first Methodist Episcopal Church organized?
A. In 1765, in New York City.
16. Was that the same church from which the founders of the A. M. E. Zion Church withdrew?
A. Yes, Peter Williams, of Zion Church, was one of the original members of that Church.
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