Proceedings and Evidence of the Select Committee on the Petition of the Rev. Joseph Stinson, D.D., President, and the Rev. Ephraim B. Harper, Secretary, on Behalf of the Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada, (in Relation to the University of Toronto).
Proceedings and Evidence of the Select Committee on the Petition of the Rev. Joseph Stinson, D.D., President, and the Rev. Ephraim B. Harper, Secretary, on Behalf of the Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada, (in Relation to the University of Toronto).

Author: Canada. Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on the Petition on Behalf of the Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada in Relation to the University of Toronto

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Published: 1860

Total Pages: 300

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African Methodism in the South
African Methodism in the South

Author: Wesley J. Gaines

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781481806572

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When, over one hundred years ago (1787), a handful of men, led by Richard Allen, took the momentous step in the Quaker City of Philadelphia, which resulted in the organization of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the most sanguine well-wisher could hardly have prophesied that the small beginning would have such a glorious, wide-spread result as is evidenced to-day. This little band was desirous of serving God, but of serving him as men; and so, breathing deeply that spirit of independence and love of freedom which was rife in the air of America that eventful year, and which has wrought so much for this broad country, they threw off the yoke which bore so heavily upon them in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and boldly set out for themselves.