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A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Volume IV A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Volume IV. Author(s): Bangs, Nathan, D.D. Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Description: Perhaps no one was better suited to provide a written history of the Methodist Episcopal Church than Nathan Bangs. The brilliant, self-educated theologian had not only served as president of Wesleyan University, but he had also volunteered himself as an itinerant preacher in Canada during the War of 1812. Later, he founded the Methodist Missionary Society. The final volume of Bangs' four-volume history carries the proceedings of the Methodist church up to the 1840s, just decades before the American Civil War. During this time, the church formulated its views on the North American slave trade, becoming a force in favor of abolition. Bangs' detailed documentation of church proceedings and projects in this volume and those before it provides church historians with an invaluable resource. Kathleen O'Bannon CCEL Staff Subjects: Christian Denominations Protestantism Post-Reformation Other Protestant denominations Methodism i Contents Title Page 1 Volume IV. From the Year 1829 to the Year 1840. 2 Contents 3 Book V. 6 Chapter 10. From the Close of the General Conference of 1828 to the Beginning 7 of the General Conference of 1832. Chapter 11. The General Conference of 1832. 45 Chapter 12. From the Close of the General Conference of 1832 to the Beginning 67 of the General Conference of 1836. Chapter 13. The General Conference of 1836. 127 Chapter 14. From the Close of the General Conference of 1836 to the 153 Commencement of the General Conference of 1840. Chapter 15. The General Conference of 1840 189 Chapter 16. Methodist Book Concern. 241 Indexes 260 Index of Scripture References 261 Greek Words and Phrases 262 Latin Words and Phrases 263 French Words and Phrases 264 ii This PDF file is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, www.ccel.org. The mission of the CCEL is to make classic Christian books available to the world. • This book is available in PDF, HTML, ePub, and other formats. See http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bangs/history4.html. • Discuss this book online at http://www.ccel.org/node/3492. The CCEL makes CDs of classic Christian literature available around the world through the Web and through CDs. We have distributed thousands of such CDs free in developing countries. If you are in a developing country and would like to receive a free CD, please send a request by email to [email protected]. The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a self supporting non-profit organization at Calvin College. If you wish to give of your time or money to support the CCEL, please visit http://www.ccel.org/give. This PDF file is copyrighted by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. It may be freely copied for non-commercial purposes as long as it is not modified. All other rights are re- served. Written permission is required for commercial use. iii Title Page Title Page A History Of The Methodist Episcopal Church By Nathan Bangs, D.D. In Two Volumes (Later Expanded To Four Volumes — DVM) VOLUME IV FROM THE YEAR 1829 TO THE YEAR 1840. THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED. “How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob; and thy tabernacles, O Israel,” Numbers xxiv, 5. “Behold, I send an Angel before thee — beware of him, and obey his voice; provoke him not. — If thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries,” Exod. xxiii, 20–22. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY T. MASON AND G. LANE, FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AT THE CONFERENCE OFFICE, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. J. Collord, Printer. 1839. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1838, by T. Mason & G. Lane, in the clerk’s office of the Southern District of New York 1 Volume IV. From the Year 1829 to the Year 1840. Volume IV. From the Year 1829 to the Year 1840. Volume IV. FROM THE YEAR 1829 TO THE YEAR 1840. 2 Contents Contents BOOK V CHAPTER 10 Nineteen annual conferences — episcopal duties; education — extract from report of Gen- eral Conference; new missions; Publishing Fund; its objects and capital; death and character of Bishop George; numbers; controversy; Its causes; Bible Society, Clarke’s Commentary, Wesley’s Testament, and general economy of Methodism assaulted and defended; Its ministry; its government and success; national societies — why censured; temperance; Oneida and other missions; Mariners’ Church in Boston; protracted meetings; deaths; numbers; abori- ginal missions; Shawnee mission; other missions; death of Henry Holmes; numbers; Upper Canada; aboriginal missions; removal of Indians, and its effects; other missions; Wesleyan University; Randolph Macon College; La Grange College; numbers. CHAPTER 11 General Conference of 1832; number and names of delegates; address of the bishops; report on missions; on education; Bible, Sunday School, and Tract Societies; pastoral address; report on temperance; American Colonization Society; affairs of Upper Canada; report on the episcopacy; election of Bishops Andrew and Emory; regulation lessening the number of delegates; relief of worn-out preachers; against leaving preachers without an appointment; traveling agents; jurisdiction of bishops; adjournment. CHAPTER 12 Number of bishops and annual conferences; Liberia; how and when settled; first emigrants; disastrous results of first settlement; removal to another place; prosperity of the new colony; missions in Liberia, and appointment of Melville B. Cox; his arrival in Africa; organizes a church; plans of usefulness; sickens and dies; his character; Green Bay mission; other mis- sions; death and character of Lemuel Green; of Wm. Phoebus; of Nathaniel Porter; numbers; work prosperous; domestic missions; their use; Dickinson and Allegheny Colleges; Genesee Conference Academy; death and character of J. M. Smith; numbers; general improvement; Liberia mission; Flat head, or Oregon mission; description of Oregon; Hudson Company; Astoria; general reflections; Visit of Flat Head Indians to General Clark; great sensation produced by the announcement of this fact; Jason and Daniel Lee appointed to the mission; on their journey; arrival; reception at Fort Vancouver, and first sermon; commence at Wil- liamette; reinforcement sent; arrival; more sent; cattle procured from California — Temper- ance Society formed; revival of religion; other missions; Lebanon College; legal decision respecting class and other collections; influence of this decision; deaths of preachers; numbers; mission to South America — general state of the country; encouragements to commence the mission; appointment of Mr. Pitts; other missions; for the slave population; death an character of Bishop McKendree; death and character of Bishop Emory. 3 Contents CHAPTER 13 General Conference of 1836; names of delegates; address of the Wesleyan Methodist Con- ference; answer; Fast; address of the bishops; death and funeral discourse of Bishops McKendree and Emory; Bible Society of M. E. Church dissolved; corresponding secretary Missionary Society appointed; Liberia annual conference; additional rule respecting receiving preachers; periodical literature, and settlement of Canada affairs; election of bishops; locating preachers without their consent, and a rule for trying superannuated preachers; abolitionism; strength of the argument; pastoral address; resolutions respecting agents for societies not connected with us. CHAPTER 14 Diminution in Church members; its probable causes; deaths of preachers; numbers; South American missions; Liberia mission; other missions; numbers; missions in Illinois; in Texas; German and French missions; colleges and academies; death and character of Dr. Ruter; of others; numbers; general work; Oregon mission — Christianity must precede civilization; great work of God in Oregon; centenary of Methodism; education promoted; death and character of Thomas Morrell; of Samuel Merwin; of Wilbur Fisk; of Smith Arnold; of John D. Bangs. CHAPTER 15 General Conference of 1840; names of delegates; delegates from England and Upper Canada; address of the bishops; address from the British Conference; answer of the General Confer- ence; address of the managers of the Missionary Society; report on the journal of secretary; report on moderate episcopacy; remarks of Mr. Newton; report on education; on episcopal powers; on presidents of Q. M. conferences; slavery and abolitionism, and colored testimony; temperance; method of receiving ministers from other denominations; on sabbath schools; on ordaining those to the ministry who own slaves; on the alterations in constitution of Missionary Society; American Colonization Society; regulations for trying supernumerary and superannuated preachers; pastoral address; close of the conference. CHAPTER 16 Book Concern — its origin; first book published; others issued; death of John Dickins, the first book steward; succeeded by Ezekiel Cooper; John Wilson his assistant, and then the principal; embarrassed state of the Concern; revives under Joshua Soule and Thomas Mason; Magazine resumed; increase of publications; debts likewise increased, with means of liquid- ation; revised hymn and tune book; book bindery; printing office; Clarke’s Commentary and other books, and stereotype plates; Christian Advocate; enlargement of the Concern — branch in Cincinnati; new arrangements; good effects of; new buildings and increased variety of books; labor of editors and agents; enlargement of buildings; consumed by fire; 4 Contents origin of the fire; public
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