Chapter 10

Reforming tendencies.--Corruptions in the Church.--Bad trades.--Faults in the ministry.--Toleration of vice.--Drinking habits.--Intemperance.--The Connexion.--Faulty rules.--Bad customs.--Defective institutions.--All encouraged to suggest reforms and punished for doing so.--Original principles of the Connexion set aside, and persecution substituted for freedom.--My simplicity.--My reward.--The Ministry.--Drunkenness.--Teetotalism.--Advocacy of Temperance.--Outcry of preachers.--My Evangelical Reformer.--Articles on the prevailing vices of the Church; On Toleration and Human Creeds;--On Channing's Works; On Anti-Christian trading, &c., get me into trouble.--Conference interference.--Conference trials.--The state of things critical.--No remedy.--Matters get worse and worse.--Exciting events: too many to be named here.--Envy, jealousy, rage, strife, confusion, and many evil works.--Conspiracies: Fierce conflicts.--Expulsion, 117