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History of the Free Methodist Church of North America

By Bishop Wilson T. Hogue

VOLUME I

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
I	PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS
II	SPIRITUAL DECLINE OF AMERICAN METHODISM—THE ZINZENDORFIAN HERESY
III	SPIRITUAL DECLINE OF AMERICAN METHODISM—TOLERATION OF SLAVERY
IV	SPIRITUAL DECLINE OF AMERICAN METHODISM—SECRET SOCIETIES
V	A CRISIS APPROACHING IN GENESES CONFERENCES
VI	HISTORICAL MISREPRESENTATIONS—THREE AUTHORS REVIEWED
VII	HISTORICAL MISREPRESENTATIONS—GENERAL SUPERINDENT ROBERTS VERSUS BISHOP SIMPSON
VIII	HISTORICAL MISREPRESENTATIONS CONTINUED—ALLEGED “NAZARITE UNION” DENIED
IX	HISTORICAL MISREPRESENTATIONS—“NAZARITE DOCUMENTS” AND GENESEE CONFERENCE ACTION
X	MINISTERIAL CONCLAVE IN GENESEE CONFERENCE
XI	DOINGS OF THE MINISTERIAL CONCLAVE
XII	FURTHER DOINGS OF THE MINISTERIAL CONCLAVE
XIII	RELIGION OF THE DOMINANT PARTY— ”NEW SCHOOL METHODISM”
XIV	RELIGION OF THE DOMINANT PARTY—TESTIMONY OF ITS OWN REPRESENTATIVES
XV	RELIGION OF THE SO-CALLED NAZARITES
XVI	RELIGION OF THE SO-CALLED NAZARITES—CONTINUED
XVII	ECCLESIASTICAL PROSCRIPTION BEGUN—CASES OF JOSEPH M'CREERY AND LOREN STILES, JR.
XVIII	ECCLESIASTICAL PROSCRIPTION CONTINUED—PROCEEDINGS AGAINST B. T. ROBERTS
XIX	THE CONFLICT DEEPENING—MR. ROBERTS AGAIN ON TRIAL
XX	CRISIS OF THE CONFLICT—ROBERTS AND M’CREERY EXPELLED
XXI	FURTHER PERSECUTIONS—”A REIGN OF TERROR”
XXII	LAYMEN’S CONVENTION—A DIGNIFIED PROTEST
XXIII	WAR AGAINST THE LAYMEN
XXIV	MORE PREACHERS ECCLESIASTICALLY BEHEADED
XXV	MORE PREACHERS ECCLESIASTICALLY BEHEADED—CONTINUED
XXVI	THE SECOND LAYMEN’S CONVENTION
XXVII	THE CRUSHING-OUT PROCESS CONTINUED
XXVIII	EARLY DEVELOPMENTS IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS
XXIX	THE THIRD LAYMEN’S CONVENTION
XXX	THE GENERAL CONFERENCE AND THE APPEALS FROM GENESES
XXXI	THE GENERAL CONFERENCE AND THE APPEALS FROM GENESEE—CONTINUED
XXXII	THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH ORGANIZED
XXXIII	FORMATION OF THE GENESEE CONFERENCE
XXXIV	FORMATION OF THE ILLINOIS CONFERENCE
XXXV	THE SUSQUEHANNA CONFERENCE ORGANIZED
XXXVI	THE SUSQUEHANNA CONFERENCE—PROMINENT ACCESSIONS
XXXVII	FORMATION OF THE NEW YORK CONFERENCE