SUPPLEMENT TO CHECKLIST OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS ON METHODIST AND RELATED SUBJECTS Lists were published in April 1970 and April 1971. The following list of dissertations co'Q"ers studies prepared since the 1971 publica­ tion, and a f~w listings which had been omitted earlier. The editors ask that titles not listed here be sent for inclusion in a later supple­ ment. Alderson, Willis Brewer. A Histo1 o y of Methodist Higher Education in A1·kansas, 1836-1933. University of Arkansas, 1971. Bahamonde, Wenceslao Oscar. The Establishment of Evangelical Chris­ tianity in Peru: 1822-1900. Hartford Seminary, 1952. .Bennett, Adrian Arthur, III. Missionary Journalism in Nineteenth Cen­ tury China: Young J. Allen (M. E. South) and the Early Wan-Kuo­ Kung-Pao. University of California, Davis, 1970. Boles, John Bruce. The Religious Mind of the Old South: The Era of the Great Revival, 1787-1805. University of Virginia, 1969. Bose, Anima. American Missionaries' Involvement in Higher Education in Jndia in the Nineteenth Century.. University of Kansas, 1971. Emery, George Neil. Metliodism on the Canad~an Prairies, 1894-1914: . The Dynamics of an Institution in a New Environment. University of British Columbia, 1970. Eslinger, Richard.Lawrence. Historicity and Historicality: A Comparison of Carl Michalson and Oscar Cullmann. Boston University, 1970. Faulkner, Clyde Wheeler~ Jr. A Study of the Relationships Between Select~d Attributes of Local Methodist Church Leaders an4 ,Their Attitudes Toward Inclusiveness in the Methodist Church. Emory Uni- versity, 1971. .. ... George, .Carol Ann. Richard Allen and the Independent Black Church Movement, 1787-1831. Syracuse University, 1970. Gifford, James Fergus, Jr. A History of Medicine at Du.ke Unive1·sity Origin and Growth, 1865-1941. Vol. 1. Duke University, 1970. Glass, Joseph Conrad. A Study of the Premarital Sexual Standards and Sources of Sexual Information of Methodist Youth Leaders, including a comparison of their standards to those of their parents, friends, arzd peers. N. C. State University, 1971. ' Han, Sun Nam. History of Methodism in Korea, 1931-1965. Temple Uni­ versity, 1970. Hosman, Glenn Burton, Jr. The Problem of Church and State in the Thought of John Wesley as Reflecting His Understanding of Provi­ dence and His View of History. Drew University, 1970. Hynson, Leon Orville. Church and State in the Thought and Life of John Wesley. University of Iowa, 1971. Jones, Ezra Earl. Analysis of Significant Relationships in the Attitudes of United Methodist Clergy and Laity toward Social and Political Issues. Northwestern University, 1971. 59 60 METHODIST HISTORY Kapenzi, Geoffrey Zwirikunzeno. A Study of the Strategies and Methods Used by the American Methodist Missionary Society in its Religious Education P1·ogram in Mashonaland from 1898-1967. Boston University, 1970. Linn, Theodore C. Religi.on and Nationalism: American Methodisrrv and the New Nation in the Early National Period, 1766-1844. Drew Uni­ versity, 1971. Mercer, Jerry Lee. A Study of the Concept of Man in the Sermons of John Wesley. School of Theology at Claremont, 1970. Morris, George Ewing. The Daytona Beach Ministry: An Experience in Relevance (United Methodist Board of Evangelism). Vanderbilt, 1970. Murray, Spencer Castles. The Role of Major Tennessee Denominations in the 1928 Presidential Campaign of Alfred E. Smith (Southern Baptist and M. E. South). Vanderbilt, 1971. Polk, Norman Keith, Jr. An Example of the Utilization of New Testa­ ment Criticism in Adult Church School Curriculum (United Meth­ odist Church). Vanderbilt, 1971. Price, J ames Howard. A Study of the God Concepts of Emotionally Disturbed Children at a Child Care Center and the ,God Concepts of Children in Three Methodist Church Schools. Syracuse University, 1970.. Reinhard, James Arnold. Personal and Sociological Factors in the For­ mation of the Free Methodist Church, 1852-1860. University of Iowa, 1971. Ringenberg, William Carey. The Protestant College on the Michigan Frontier. Michigan State University, 1970. - Salango, Bonnie. The Methodist Foreign Policy Response 1939-1964: A Case Study in Churches and Foreign Policy in the United States~ Johns Hopkins University, 1970. Thomas, Mary Martha. Southern Methodist University, the first 25 years, 1915-1940. Emory University, 1971. Ward, A. Sterling. The Religious Awakening of 101 Methodist 'Ministers. Boston University, 1940. Waynick, Leo Banks. Protestantism in Metropolis: A Study.of the Re­ sponse of Selected Denominations (Episcopal, Methodist, United Pres­ byterip,ns) to Metropolis, 1945-1970. Temple University, 1971. Wynne, Edward James, Jr. The Im,plications of Carl Michalson's Theo­ logical Method for Christian Education. New York University, 1971. I: ~ A CALENDAR OF HISTORIC EVENTS by William Cardwell Prout 1722 June 17 Zinzendorf permitted some Moravians to settle on his estate in Saxony. This settlement, called Herrn­ hut, was later visited by J 000 Wesley in August 1738. (Am. Ency., Vol. II, 1903, under Moravian; Stevens, Vol. I, History of Meth., p. 97.) 1747 This \ summer Thomas Williams, one of John Wesley's preachers, introduced Methodism into Ire­ land by his preaching on the streets of Dublin and formed the first Methodist Society in Ireland in Dublin. (Wesley's Journal, Vol. III, pp. 310, 312n.) June 11 The date of. Wesley's preface to Primitive Physick. The last edition during Wesley's life time was the twenty-third in 1791. (Wesley's Journal, Vol. I, p. 180n; Vol. III, p. 301n.) 1772 Thomas Webb returned to Engh.lnd from America to interest the English Methodists (WesleyIDis) in American work. (Buckley Vol. .I,. p. 136; Bucke, ed., Vol. I, p. 80) Robert Williams· preached the first Methodist ser­ mon in Virginia· at Norfolk, from the door-step of the Courthouse. (Stevens, one vol. ed., p. 48; several . others) In·late autumn, Asbury made his first visit to Mary­ land. (Asbury's Journal, Oct. 1772) Philip Gatch was "called out" by Rankin and began his itinerant ministry on -a circuit comprising the whole of New Jersey. Philip Gatch and William Watters were the first two native Methodists preachers reported in the Minutes. They joined the Conference in 1774. (Minutes for 1774; Stevens, one vol. ed., p. 82 ff) 61 ._. 62 l\1:ETHODIST HISTORY ~Tune 22 Joseph Pilmore organized the first Methodist class in Baltimore in the Dutch Church, the fruit of the work of Williams, King, and Webb. (Pilmore's Journal) 1797 In the listing of appointments of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the term "elder" was dropped in favor of "presiding elder." (Minutes for 1796 and 1797) Francis McCormick, a local preacher and the founder of Methodism in Ohio, formed the first Methodist class of ten persons in the Northwest Territory, near Milford, in Clermont County, Ohio. (Bucke, ed., Vol. I, p. 396; Sweet: Meth. In AmeT. Rist., p. 148) June 5 It is probable that this year Jacob Albright and four laymen friends held their Pentecost meeting. The location is uncertain. It could .have been held at the home of Peter Walter in Bucks County near Quakertown, Pennsylvania. This home was one of the early preaching places' for the Albright people. Peter Walter was the first class leader of the new denomination-later known as the Evangelical As­ sociation. (Albright: A History of the Ev. Ch., p. 52, 62) July 29 Birth of Daniel Drew, at Carmel, New York, capital­ ist and railroad director, founder of Drew Theo­ logical Seminary in Madison, New Jersey, the Drew Ladies' Seminary in Carmel, New York, and a bene­ factor of many other charitable enterprises. (Simp-' son: Cy. of Meth. p. 312; New Cen. Cy. of N., Vol. l, p. 1335) 1822 The first American Negro settlement in Liberia. Some freed slaves organized a Methodist congrega­ tion on the ship which tQok them to Africa. (Lewis: Methodist Overseas Missions, 1956) Between 1822 and- 1844 the Methodist Episcopal Church founded.thirteen colleges. (Bucke, ed., Vol. l, p. 560) A CALENDAR OF HISTORIC EVENTS 63 The Rev. Walter Lawry, an English Wesleyan min­ ister from Sidney, Australia, established a mission on Tonga, in the Friendly Islands. (Simpson p. 865; Holt p. 115; Clark p. 127) British Methodist work began in New Zealand with the Maoris. (Lee & Sweet p. 132) June 17 Willian~ Stillwell, James Covel, and Silvester Hutchinson, elders who had withdrawn from the Methodist Episcopal Church, ordained Abraham Thompson, James Varick, and Leven Smith as elders in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chur1ch. This action brought about the complete and final separation of this body from the parent church. (Bucke, ed., Vol. I, p. 614) July 18 Following complete separation from the Methodist Episcopal Church, James Varick was elected the first superintendent (Le. bishop) of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. This action took place at an adjourned session of the second con­ ference of this body. (Simpson p. 17; Bucke, ed., Vol. I, p. 609, 614.) - 1847 The eminent W. W. Orwig of the Evangelical As­ sociation was not in favol;', qf. establishing a theo­ logical seminary for the denomination, further evi­ dence of anti-intellectualism in American religious thought during this period. (Albright p. 212) Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, was founded by three conferences of the United Brethren in Christ. (Webster's Geographical Dictionary, p. 1251) Following plans for a Theological School made in Boston in 1839, the school opened this year in Con­ cord, New Hampshire, as the Methodist General Biblical Institute, under John Dempster, founder, the first regular theological school of American Methodism. In 1867, the school was removed to Boston, reorganized, and became part of Boston --University. (Simpson p. 125, 248, 306, 389; Buckley Vol. II, p. 134) I,! · , 64 METHODIST HISTORY April 24 William Roberts of the New Jersey Conference and J. H. Wilbur of the Black River Conference landed in San Francisco, then a small Mexican village named Yerba Buena. These men have the distinc­ tion of being the earliest Methodist missionaries in the area.