Excerpt from History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Vol. 4 What, therefore, remains unrecorded in my volumes is but the chron ological continuation of the system here described, its continuous working, without much, if anything, essentially different, except a new generation of preachers, and the occasional controversies and schisms which have disturbed, but hardly impaired it, and which I trust my readers will be as happy as myself to escape. In following my main design, of exhibiting ...
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Excerpt from History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Vol. 4 What, therefore, remains unrecorded in my volumes is but the chron ological continuation of the system here described, its continuous working, without much, if anything, essentially different, except a new generation of preachers, and the occasional controversies and schisms which have disturbed, but hardly impaired it, and which I trust my readers will be as happy as myself to escape. In following my main design, of exhibiting the vital principles and workings of Methodism, I have necessarily been most minute in the earliest data, condensing as I advance toward our own times. From the peculiar organization of the Church, Methodist history is pecul iarly biographic, a fact which enhances much its popular interest, but also the difficulties of its writers. Scores, if not hundreds, of personal characters are more or less sketched in these volumes; and, in order to relieve the biographical tone of the story, many are portrayed at their introduction to the ministry, others at some important event in which they took a prominent part, and still others not till their obituary in the Conference Minutes. Not a few important characters are hardly more than mentioned; they were necessarily referred to the times of their obituary record, which come after my final date; they will afford precious material for another volume, for one volume more will be necessary to bring the history down to its centenary year. I have no design of writing that volume, at least not within the next ten or fifteen years. I have gathered ample materials for it, but they will be left in the library of the Drew Theological School for the use of some abler hand. After many years of hardest toil, and the postponement of other literary plans, my design has been accomplished as well as I feel myself able to do it; that design has been, not to exhibit the Church merely in what is sometimes called its heroic period, but in its full maturity, its complete structure, as it stands before us to-day, except ing only the extension of some of its outer works. Its heroic period, I trust, still continues, and will, while it has indefinite frontier fields to invade. Its history will be equally indefinite, in continuance, at least. I gladly give way to my successors in the grateful task of recording its later triumphs. Abel Srass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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