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Title: A history of Methodism (electronic resource): comprising a view of the rise of this revival of spiritual religion in the first half of the eighteenth century, and of the principal agents by whom it was promoted in Europe and America; with some account of the doctrine and poli
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: McTyeire, Holland Nimmons, 1824-1889
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Southern Methodist Publishing House
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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espectswith the very first, before this day. The rich claim whatever they want, even a fashionable churchand a palatable gospel; they can pay for it! But the Spirit ofthe Lord God must be upon a man—he must be anointed—who preaches the gospel to the poor. In 1845 Southern Meth-odism had gathered into Church-membership one hundred andtwenty-four thousand of the slave population; in the fifteen yearsfollowing, that number had increased to two hundred and seventhousand, exclusive of catechumens. Frequent references are made in the reports of laborers inthis field to the delicacy as well the difficulty of their work.Their access to the slave population at one end of the Union wasconstantly liable to be restricted or cut off on account of intem-perate speech or action at the other end, and that too by peopleprofessing to be friends of the slave, but far removed from thescene, and bearing no part in the perils, reproaches, and sac-rifices of those who were seeking his spiritual welfare.
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CHAPTER XL. James O. Andrew—John Emory—Foreign Missions Inaugurated—Liberia—Brazil—Coxe—Pitts—Education—Colleges: Randolph Macon; La Change;Dickinson; Wilbraham; Madison; Alleghany—J. P. Durbin—Thomas A.Morris—Death of McKendree: Taking Leave of his Brethren. THE General Conference of -1832 met in the city of Philadel-phia. One disturbing element having withdrawn from theChurch, and the other being weak or quiet, the session was re-markably harmonious. James O. Andrew, of the Georgia, andJohn Emory, of the Baltimore Conference, were elected Bishops.James Osgood Andrew was the son of John Andrew, the firstnative Georgian who had joined the traveling ministry. Jameswas somewhat reluctantly licensed to preach by the QuarterlyConference. Preachers were needed, and the Annual Conference,on the indorsement of his presiding elder, Lovick Pierce, whohad brought up his recommendation from the Broad River Cir-cuit, received him on trial (1812) and he was sent as second man

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