The Life of the REV. Adam Clarke by John Wesley Etheridge

Author:John Wesley Etheridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Books LLC

"9. That each family have the house free of rent and taxes, and a certain sum be allowed annually for coals and candles.

"10. That the superannuated preachers and widows resident in the asylum have the whole of the annuity which they can legally claim from the preachers' fund, independent of all the privileges and advantages arising from their residence.

"11. That no preacher or widow be obliged to enter this institution, or be entitled to its privileges, not being resident in it, unless there be no room for any proper claimant, and the funds be in such a state as to enable the managers to grant a certain portion of help to such persons.

"12. That the principal friends throughout the Connexion be solicited for subscriptions to purchase freehold premises, on which to erect the necessary buildings."

This programme was supplemented with the following postscript :—" The preceding plan was laid before the Conference by Brother Clarke; and he was required by the Conference to write an Address to the members and friends of the Societies, accompanied with the plan, soliciting subscriptions for the above laudable purpose; and the Conference order that the Address and plan be printed in the Minutes and Magazine.

"J. Barber, President.

"T. Coke, Secretary."

At this Conference Dr. Clarke was appointed, in conjunction with Dr. Coke and Mr. Benson, to draw up a compend of Meihodist doctrines, confirmed by Scripture, and illustrated from the writings of Mr. Wesley. This was accordingly compiled, and a copy sent to the chairman of every District for the consideration of the preachers.

As the time drew on when, according to the usages of Methodism, Dr. Clarke would have to leave the metropolis, the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society expressed their sense of the value of his services to that great institution by an official request to the Conference, that the general custom might in his case be pretermitted. To this unusual application, so honourable to each of the parties, the Conference, from an earnest desire to promote the interests of the Bible Society, gave their full consent. In the course of the year Dr. Clarke removed from City-road, and took up his residence at the Surrey Institution, to the librarianship of which he had allowed himself to be nominated under the circumstances disclosed in the following extract from a correspondence on the subject with Mr. Butterworth:—

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