A HISTORY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
By Nathan Bangs Volume III, Published in 1841 (From The Year 1816 To The Year 1828) CONTENTS NOTICE TO THE READER BOOK V CHAPTER 3 Difference between Wesley and Whitefield; its consequences; Fletcher and his writings; Wesleyan missionaries in America -- their manner of preaching; provoke opposition; how defended; Hopkinsianism; this changed the points of controversy; public debate and its results; charitable society for the education of pious young men; its address; examined by Mr. Garrettson; its opinions startle the community; its general views; its political tendency; Connecticut changes its charter; religious liberty obtained; numbers; secession of Richard Allen; organizes a church; General Conference of 1816 -- its members; Bishop McKendree's address; delegates from British conference, affairs of Canada; letter from mission committee of London; report of General Conference on Canada affairs; letter addressed to the committee in London; report of the episcopal committee, and election of Enoch George and Robert L. Roberts to the episcopal office; report of the committee of ways and means; support and improvement of the ministry; committee of safety; on local preachers; provision for the married bishops; book agents; adjournment of Conference. CHAPTER 4 Conferences and manner of attending them; Tract Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; beneficial results; general work; character and death of Jesse Lee; character and death of Mr. Shadford; numbers; Methodist Magazine commenced; Asbury College; revivals in the Baltimore, New York, add New England conferences; in Upper Canada; camp meetings again in Kentucky; general superintendence; its effects; Bishop McKendree labors and suffers; locations and deaths of preachers and number of members; diminution of colored members, and its causes; origin of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1819; first constitution, officers and managers; their address; circular; auxiliary societies; Bishop McKendree's views; Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of Philadelphia; secession of colored members in New York; their present state and prospects; locations and deaths of preachers; numbers. CHAPTER 5 General Conference of 1820. Names and number of delegates; opening of conference by Bishop McKendree, and address of the bishops; provision for Bishop McKendree; cause of education; report of committee commending the establishment of seminaries of learning; opposition to this cause; Canada affairs; letter from London; address to the Wesleyan Methodist conference; its answer; resolutions of the British conference on Canada affairs; instructions from our bishops; to the brethren in Lower Canada; result of these proceedings; improved edition of the Hymn Book; Tune Book; revised; building churches; new regulation respecting local preachers; did not work well; finally abrogated; report on missions; revised constitution; rule for conducting appeals; a branch of the Book Concern established at Cincinnati. CHAPTER 6 Twelve conferences and two effective bishops; state of things in Louisiana; French mission unsuccessful; Indian missions; number and general description of the condition and character of the Indians; Wyandot Indians; John Steward goes among them; his reception; effects of his labors; speeches of chiefs; transactions at the Ohio conference; secession in the city of New York; its causes and effects; numbers return to the church they had left; Missionary Society prospers; its effects in some portions of New England; Methodism in Bristol R. I.; in Provincetown, Mass., and Chillicothe, Ohio; locations, deaths, and numbers; Wyandot mission; Creek mission; camp meetings in South Carolina and Tennessee; work of God in Carter's Valley and Pittsburgh; in North Carolina; in Alabama; character and death of S. Parker; numbers; Asbury mission; its progress and disastrous results; Mohawk mission; Cherokee mission; domestic missions in Upper Canada; general work -- in Brooklyn, L. I., Amenia and Tolland; in Upper Canada district; in Smyrna Delaware; Surry county, Virginia; Scioto, Ohio, and Northumberland district; Hudson River district; New York, and New Rochelle; controversial preaching; Wesleyan Seminary; locations, deaths, and numbers; work of God prospers; Missionary Society aided by the labors of John Summerfield; his address to the Young Men's Missionary Society; Potawattomy mission; Methodism in Jackson's Purchase; in Michigan; in Florida; in Cumberland and St. Louis; aboriginal missions prosperous; Bishop McKendree's visit among the Wyandots; G. R. Jones's letter; J. B. Finley's travels, interesting account of Honnes; mission in the city of New York; on Long Island; in New Brunswick; work of God on Baltimore district; Augusta College; character and death of Dr. Chandler; of John Steward; numbers. CHAPTER 7 General Conference of 1824. Names and number of delegates; delegates from the Wesleyan Methodist conference; address of said conference; of Mr. Reece; bishops' communication to the conference; report of the committee on lay delegation; on education; Missionary Society; American Colonization Society; on slavery; on the episcopacy; election and consecration of Joshua Soule and Elijah Hedding to the episcopal office; Canada affairs; report of the committee on the itinerancy; address to the Wesleyan Methodist conference. CHAPTER 8 Wyandot mission visited by Bishops McKendree and Soule; Methodism in Newburyport, Gloucester, and Piscataquis; general work; Cazenovia Seminary; locations and deaths of preachers; character of Peyton Anderson; numbers; Indian missions -- Peter Jones and others brought to God; Methodism in New Orleans; Mobile and Pensacola; in Tallahassee and Early; in the Highlands and Hampshire; in Chillicothe; in Genesee, Bridgetown, Newark, and Coeyman's; in Albany, Champlain, and New Haven districts; church building; revivals in Susquehannah and Black River districts, and in Baltimore; Mariners' Church, New York; general work prosperous; death and character of William Beauchamp; death and character of William Ross; numbers; aboriginal missions prosper; Methodism in Florida, Alabama, and Upper Canada; revivals in Virginia and Maryland; Wilbraham Academy and Madison College; Christian Advocate begun, Sept. 9, 1826; death and character of John Summerfield; of Daniel Asbury; of Daniel Hitt; of Joseph Toy; of John P. Finley; numbers; origin of the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church; address; its character and success; Cherokee mission; Mississauga; character and death of Between-the-logs; Richmond mission; Methodism in New York city; in New Haven; Maine Wesleyan Seminary; locations and deaths; character and death of Philip Bruce; of Freeborn Garrettson; of James Smith; of Seth Crowell; numbers. CHAPTER 9 General Conference of 1828. Names and number of bishops and delegates; address of the bishops; appeal of Joshua Randell; vindication of Bishop Hedding, Canada affairs; resolutions of conference in reference to them; important principle explained; no precedent for a similar proceeding in the United States; how an annual conference may be disowned; precedents for ordaining a bishop for Canada; historical sketch of the "Reformers"; Dr. Bond's Appeal; Defense of our Fathers; trials in Baltimore; similar proceedings in other places; mistake corrected; the "Reformers" organize and memorialize the General Conference; report of the conference on said memorial; our people unfavorable to "reform"; effects of the secession -- increase of membership; proceedings of "Reformers"; "The Methodist Protestant Church formed -- its character; agitations continue; finally cease; review of the whole affair; cause of missions, education, and colonization; election of book agents and editors, and provision for the appointment of trustees; address to the Wesleyan Methodist conference; close of the volume.