Talk:Methodist Episcopal Church

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[edit] Church History Timeline

Would a timeline of the M.E. Church history be of help of interest? I received one today from the Archives of Ohio United Methodism, located on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio while gathering information from primary source material. user: stude62 user talk:stude62 01:26, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This article is missing info on when the M.E. split from the Anglicans. Anyone know? --65.91.102.204 23:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

There is an old M.E. church in Topeka, Kansas The name on the cornerstone is Trinity M.E. Church 1888-1919. It is unique in the fact that the architecture around the top of the building sports upside down crosses. Would anyone know anything about this church, and why they built the upside down crosses? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.180.117.224 (talk) 21:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

The history of the EUB church before the merger also coincided with the Methodist history. the Evangelical church started and the Evangelical Association by Jacob Albright. Likewise the United Brethren Church was started by Phillip Otterbein. Both of these congregations were German speaking people. They wanted originally to be part of the Methodist church but were told they weren’t welcome if they were going to have services in German so they each started their own church and held their German services. The doctrines of these churches were almost identical. They merged about 1940 to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church and were eventually accepted into Methodism in 1968. Since the merger into The United Methodist Church the original Methodist Conference has made a practice of dropping “United” from the title whenever possible, thus obscuring the origins of the EUB in the merger. Thomas R. Wright - AdmiralTRW@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.131.112.18 (talk) 19:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)