The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-10

...eian Christian Advocate, for
IF the southern Methodist
....uE' for 1906. Il is a Wen
.... volume Of 20 octave pages.
- of real value and interest. 1t
f.nt q most tredit&ble volume.
..r.fuIly prepared and abound
.. Facts. evidences. figures, bear
:..n history, biography and
rs li|aterature- / return hearty
.yr such a judiciou=. handy,
statistical volume showing
.-.. King, judgment, vide infor-
4 a- to subjects treated with
.nude Of research. 1t is not sur
to learn Of it's wide sale
-uput the great Denomination
pressing on to 1~.700.0t0 mem
IN The south. I have examined
r. much interest, and am 50 i'm
.d With its utility propose to
.leo some facts and statistics for
leaders generally. The member
ia 1905 was ~1,6i3,309, u gain
.-.eG8 in four years, l believe
rs. when the Southern Methodist
. began as q serarate or@aniza-
ID had only some 10000 mem
\orth Carolina has five foreign
..uyries namely, Rev. J. r. Moore,
u.,u: Rev. ~. 4. Wilson, in ia
E.yo in Brazil. Rev. W. +, Lee
E-.r. j. NJ. Terrell; Rev. j. H.
GERALD IN Mexico. Bishop Souie
ID sus Bishop 43 years, longer than
other; Bishop Paine, born il
% Carolina, SO years, and Bishops
VIE and KaVanaugh, 80 years each.
.. Parker, q very able Dreacher,
less than three years, dying in
bishop O. Z. Fitzgerald is Il
ID Of North Carolina.
81. first Glass Meeting ever held
IN England IN i742. This excel
lid 10 spiritual life still HOurishes
@.ut Britain, while in the South
we'll nigh dead. Bishop Astury
mat in Maryland il 1866, at
Creek, Nh. StraWbridge
.i the first Society,"" and the first
}merica." he said. The BaDtists
10 this country in 1859. and
'ongregationalists ia 164S. The
bTterians came il 1898. THE
Grams and EpiscOpaIians began
the settlement Of America" The
sujnatiOnal strength in 1906 was
fnodists, 6,256, 73&; Baptist, .
.I1. Lutheran, 1889, 1G6; Presby-
.. f.G97,697; Epi5c0DaI. 8n7.924.
southern Methodist Church was
sized by the General Conference
-=ion at Petersburg, Va, in May,
IL began with Is Annual Con-
..es. 455,217 members, and but
Bishops, Andrews and Soule. Two
.us We're elected, William Capers,
suth Carolina, and Robert Paine.
i'm North Carolina.
inn WeSleV. the founder under.
of Methodism," died in 1871, ana
BORN III 1908. His last words
THE best of all is, God is with
He was \ great worker for God
We preached 42.100
8, an average of fifteen times q
He gave away &15Q.0G0 (of
.Wn) ana published about 20D
mes" but few, however, of his
writing. He preached up to one
before death when III his 8Sth
John Wesley, and his very
d brother, Charles. the greatest
] hymnologists, producing hymns
are immortal and in ali about
came as missionaries to the In
in this country in 1885. Their
was Georgia, In 1858 John re-
I'd TO England. In 1749 Glass
ings were held. The first Metho-
Conference was held in London
a.. Philip Embury was the first
s Leader and local preacher to
to this country. and it was in
He was from Ireland. Charles
ley died in 1888, an old man. The
General Conference in America
held in 1892, at Baltimore, Bishop
presiding. In 1890. there were
.t.'N' III IoS1' me l,fst 1cull-
,.D io-" - D
.H"ii
j. 4aa ho', M IaanoI I I!d9
.a.1 49, b"- ~
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u! ii-iiila' 80
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tno i|11' '"ii'"S 7oiioi
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\oIIlielh 10
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Low Al hlIidS OF bIpIlal9
'"lEelN over -oV'9o4' lneie
nan N~eIllodI7'7
-' 'I' "oIId'
, recent reference to the Coloni-
records of North Carolina [ men
H That | had never so much as