General Conference in war-time (1864)
By: by William E. Sweet
Published: 1914
Language: eng
Number of pages: 746
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conference, 1864
Description: A brief history of the fourteenth General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church which was held in Philadelphia in 1864. Rev. Col. Granville Moody (includes portrait) moved for a fasting and prayer day to be held on behalf of the nation, resolutions were passed supporting the Union, and a letter was sent to President Lincoln.  His reply was read to the entire conference body on May 19.
Notes: Detached from The Christian Advocate, May 28, 1914.

Rev. Dr. William Warren Sweet (1881-1959) was a  Methodist scholar. His doctoral dissertation, published as The Methodist Episcopal Church and the Civil War (1912), initiated that prolific publication that was to make him "the dean of the historians of Christianity in America." He taught at Ohio Wesleyan (1911-13), DePauw University (1913-27), and the Divinity School of the University of Chicago (1927-46). His fundamental concern was to give such a reputation to church history that secular historians could no longer ignore its role. He influenced both the writing of general American history by calling attention to those often neglected "civilizing and cultural forces" of religion, and that of denominational histories by broadening individual examples to see their place within the total development of America and its peculiar form of Christianity.