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Spring/Summer 2010 J!)tstortcal ;fl\tSStngtr The Commission on Archives and History Detroit Annual Conference United Methodist Church Spring/Summer 2010 Jn tbis issue: J.A. Baughman Church History Award Winner Circuit Rider J oumals Church History 2010 Award Entry Application Join "Friends of the Archive" 'atbe ~t~tottcal ;fll.e~~enger Newsletter of the Commission on Archives and History Detroit Conference of the United Methodist Church Diana Miller, Chair Matthew May, Historian and Archivist Unless otherwise noted, all original material within has been written by Matthew May Questions about the content of this newsletter and research queries may be directed to the Historian!Archivist at: Archive of the Detroit Conference of the United Methodist Church Shipman Library, Adrian College 110 S. Madison St. Adrian, MI 49221 517.546.2730 E-mail: [email protected] On the Web at: http://www.adrian.edu/library/resources/archive.php Donations to the archive collection may be made by contacting the archivist/historian. Monetary donations are welcome in the form of joining the "Friends of the Archive" group, which sponsors memberships of one year for $6, two years for $15, five years for $30, and a lifetime membership for $100. Payment by check (payable to "Friends of the Archive") and member information can be sent to: Sharon Scott, Treasurer 214 E. Michigan Ave. Clinton, MI 49236 "Friends of the Archive" is a non-profit group that supports the Archive and the mission of historical preservation of documents and material pertaining to the Detroit Conference. Your support is necessary to sustain the Archive and bridge the past, present and future. Perhaps most enticing to historians is the ~()rthville t=lrst book's addendum of treasures found in wins tilsWO' the church files and its cornerstone box. These include a handwritten note from .&.ward 1885 addressed to future congregants, centennial celebrations, member registration rolls, and much more. In The Detroit Annual Conference's addition, the growth of the church and Commission on Archives and History is Northville itself is charted in various pleased to announce that Northville First stories and historic photographs. United Methodist Church has won the annual J .A. Baughman Church History Everyone associated with the Detroit Award for the 2009 calendar year. Conference Archives, the Commission on Archives and History, and the Friends Northville First's winning entry is the of the Archives wishes to congratulate fascinating and informative book entitled Northville First for their effort and A Proud Past - A Faithful Future. award. Representatives from Northville Published by Northville First, the book UMC were presented with a is a commemoration of the church's commemorative plaque during Annual sesquicentennial celebrated last year. Conference at Adrian. A copy ofA Proud Past - A Faithful Future will be A Proud Past-A Faithful Future is permanently housed at the Conference largely the work ofNorthville' s Archives. Anniversary Committee, co-chaired by Richard and Pat Allen and advised by The annual Church History Award is Rev. Dr. Steve Buck. These individuals named after Rev. J.A. Baughman, a and everyone at Northville who was circuit rider whose significant work in involved with the book conducted very the ministry helped establish a strong thorough research and exhibited editorial foundation for our church in Michigan. and stylistic flair. Not only is it a book well worth studying and enjoying, it is While the award bears Rev. Baughman's an invaluable historical resource. name, it is intended to call attention to those circuit riders and ministers who Richard, Pat, and their team scoured the toiled endlessly to advance the church, libraries, and archives to Methodist Church, and to honor compile this definitive history of contemporary members of the church Northville First. This includes a written who are doing their best to document history of the church; dozens upon and honor our heritage. dozens of photographs; first person reminiscences; biographic and photographic sketches of those who have To enter the 2010 Church served in the ministry at Northville. The History Award competition, back cover of the book is a beautiful please see the entry form color montage of the stained glass windows in the Northville First elsewhere in this edition of sanctuary. the Historical Messenger Editor's note: This is a version ofthe talk the archivist delivered during the meeting of the Commission on Archives and History and Friends ofthe Archives May 19, 2010. All ofthe research cited in the following was conducted at the Conference Archives. Circu.i:t :-Rider J ou.rn.a.ls "The rides and labors ofthe missionary to fulfill the duties connected with the Detroit Circuit ... were very fatiguing and excessive ... Three times every three weeks [Mr. Hickox] had to pass through a wilderness offifty-seven miles without human habitation and to swim his horse five times each trip. In the winter, when the clumsy ferry boats were stopped, he had to leave his horse on the Canada side and to walk up and down the river seeking the strongest ice .."- Elijah H Pilche/ "On cold wintry days, as I have traveled about my parish comfortably in an automobile, I have thought ofthe hard travel ofthe early Methodist preachers in southeastern Michigan. " - Rev. Ronald A. Brunger2 "Sacrifice" and "hardship" are terms that are often haphazardly applied in our modern vernacular and, just as often, have the unhappy effect of diminishing their true meaning. Yet the pioneering Methodist preachers traversing Michigan on horseback and foot during the nineteenth century along primitive roads under often-unforgiving weather conditions came to define such terms while simultaneously demonstrating their commitment to their church and their faith. Along with their hard work, many of these preachers took time to record their thoughts and observations in journals, whose contents grow ever more valuable as the modern world ostensibly makes our lives easier and the past more distant. Appropriately enough, these itinerants took their inclination toward journaling from the examples of John Wesley and Francis Asbury, both of whom chronicled their travels in voluminous diaries. Asbury once remarked of his amazing journeys on horseback throughout our young nation in the eighteenth century that "I must ride or die."3 He could have easily added writing to his self-imposed requirements as his detailed and invaluable entries bear out. Bishop John William Hamilton once said of Asbury, "He printed the map of his ministry with the hoofs of his horse."4 So it was with the traveling preachers of Michigan who, like their predecessors, provided keen descriptions of their journeys as they traveled through the frontier establishing the map of Michigan Methodism with the hoofs of their horses and the spirit of their hearts. Methodism did not have a promising future in Michigan - especially in the state's largest city- if the recollections of Rev. Joseph Hickox, the first minister appointed to Detroit (in 1815), are to be believed: 1 Pilcher, Elijah H. Protestantism in Michigan. Detroit: R.D.S. Tyler & Co., 1878. 2 Brunger, Ronald A. "Hardships of the Early Circuit Riders," Michigan Christian Advocate, June 7, 1956, p.6. Clark, Elmer T. (ed.). The Journal and Letters ofFrancis Asbury. London: Epworth Press, 1958. 4 Ibid. "Detroit was a sink of iniquity. The original inhabitants were Canadian French, characterized by all the loose morals ofsecluded Catholicism. Besides, it had been under martial law for three years, alternately under the British and American dominancy. The pandemonium created by rum-drinking British soldiers, Indians and French may be more easily imagined than described. It was awful. Though the morals ofour troops were ofa higher grade than the others, yet war in the mildest form is an enemy to righteousness and temperance. The only Americans in the city were a few traders, whose antipathy to religion was proverbial. "5 Not only were the inhabitants a great hurdle to clear, so too was the climate. Presiding Elder James Gilruth vividly described his impressions of the often-dismal winter landscape of the state when he wrote in 1833, "Never was I in a country so cheerless in winter as Michigan, scarcely a bird of any description to be seen and but few animals all is nearly an unanimated land."6 Without the fierce determination and devotion to their calling exhibited by men like Gilruth, however, it is difficult to conclude that the Methodist church would have had the significant success in Michigan that it did, beginning with the appointment of Rev. William Case to the Detroit Circuit in Upper Canada district by the New York Annual Conference in May 1809. These brave, devoted Methodists were known as circuit riders. They were assigned by the conference a regular route upon which they would preach almost every night before riding to the next station on the way to completing the circuit and beginning again. Throughout Michigan and, indeed, throughout the nation, Methodist circuit riders gained a reputation for their steadfast refusal to succumb to the rigors of travel - astonishing and gaining the respect of even those who did not wish to hear the gospel. Such was the loyal observation of these ministers to their duties that a popular saying in nineteenth-century Michigan went that on rainy days there would be nobody outdoors but crows and 7 Methodist preachers • Many circuit riders were just as loyal to their journals and diaries, and, thankfully, left behind the definitive record of their travels. Some of these writings are preserved at our conference archives others appear in excerpts in historical texts and studies. The eloquent descriptions of their encounters with blizzards, rain, swamps, wild beasts, and skeptical humans provide an illuminating glimpse of a life that today's modem amenities makes nearly unimaginable.
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