METHODIST NEW CONNEXION
\mˈɛθədˌɪst njˈuː kənˈɛkʃən], \mˈɛθədˌɪst njˈuː kənˈɛkʃən], \m_ˈɛ_θ_ə_d_ˌɪ_s_t n_j_ˈuː k_ə_n_ˈɛ_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
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A branch of the Wesleyan Methodists, called also Kilhamites, after Alexander Kilham, who asserted, first, the right of the Methodists to have their own hours of worship, and to receive the sacraments from their own ministers; and, secondly, the right of the laity to share in the government of the body to which they belonged. Apart, therefore, from questions of order, there is no difference between the Old Connexion and the New. The distinction lies only in the degrees of power which each allows to the laity.
By Henry Percy Smith
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ARBITRARY PUNISHMENTS
- Practice. punishments left to decision of the judge, in distinctiou from those which are defined by statute.