EDWIN SCHELL | By Edwin Schell As the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference prepares to meet this May in Baltimore for the first time since 1986, this history column will include highlights of Methodism since it began in this historic area. 1836 - The Rev. Beverly Waugh of Baltimore was elected bishop.
1840 - Ten percent of Baltimore?s 140,000 residents are Methodist Church members.
1843 - St. Johns, mother church of the Methodist Protestants, became independent in order to retain a pastor. It returned to the denomination in 1908.
1844 - At General Conference in New York, a slaveholding appeal by suspended conference preacher F.A. Harding and slaves of Bishop Andrew divided the church.
1845 - Methodist Episcopal Church South organized. Baltimore stayed in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
1848 - William Taylor and his pregnant wife were sent to mission in California, by way of going around Cape Horn. A disassembled church accompanied them from Baltimore to Sacramento.
1851 - The Baltimore Conference has the largest membership in the church: 70,000 of total membership of 721,000.
1852 - The General Conference projected a national Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore Conference purchased a lot for it at 4th and C Streets, NW.
The Rev. Edwin Schell is the executive director of the United Methodist Historical Society. |
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