Author: Amos Sutton Hayden

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-26

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9781333748098

Excerpt from Early History of the Disciples in the Western Reserve, Ohio: With Biographical Sketches of the Principal Agents in Their Religious Movement This movement was so unexpected, so rapid, so gen eral, and accompanied by many incidents and events so peculiar, as to stamp the phenomenon with the clearest indications of a providential visitation of great mercy to the world. Many of its first advocates were plain, nu pretending men, called unexpectedly to the front, and urged forward by the resistless impulses of the work it self. Some of these men exhibited fine oratorial powers. They have left their impress durably on a wide and growing society. Brief biographical sketches of the prin cipal e'arly actors in the scenes to pass before the reader can not fail to be interesting to him. They will also constitute an important part of the record of the times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.