--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1845 to 1846. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 6 number: 10 published: 1845-06-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“The Methodist Episcopal Church,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 10 (June 1, 1845): 916–917." printed_title: THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-06-01_6_10 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n10.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-06-01_6_10 start_page: 916 end_page: 917 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1845 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-06-01_6_10 publication_year: 1845 --- # The Methodist Episcopal Church The Western Christian Advocate, the western organ of the Methodist Episcopal Church, seem disposed to treat the late Convention at Louisville, and the new church organized by them as schismatic. It files seven objections against the new organization. 1. It is no legitimate division of the M. E. Church. 2. The plan of the General Conference did not authorize, sanction or justify the separation. 3. The new organization possesses many elements of schism-for example, agitation by the press, condemnation of the Church, Bishop Andrew encouraged in contumacy, Bishop Soule encouraged in disregarding the acts of his colleagues. 4. The new Church is pro-slavery. 5. The manner in which the organization has been effected, is of revolutionary tendency in the State. 6. Itenerancy cannot long exist in the new Church. 7. By its pro-slavery principles and action in time, it will be shut out from access to the slaves and colored people of the south. (->) We copy the foregoing to show our readers how far the spirit of division has seized this generation. Of course they will "treat the new church as schismatic," and the new church will treat the old church as schismatic, and both parties will consider it no legitimate division. If God was in either system, the voice of Jesus would whisper to the boisterous elements, "peace; be still" and immediately, love, union and friendship, would triumph over passion; and the great family of man would rejoice in the Holy One of Israel, and be blest by blessing. But alas! the awful day approaches, when every man will rise to fight his neighbor, and who will go for God?