Catechism for the use of the Methodist missions
Subtitle: First part
By: Capers, William, 1790-1855
Contributors: Methodist Episcopal Church, South; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Missions; Catechisms; English; Methodist Church; African Americans; Religion; Slaves; Religious life; History; Slavery and the church; English Catechisms; English Hymns; South Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: This short, Catechism for the Use of Methodist Missions was written to be used for those of "untutored mind" and was widely used in the antebellum South for preaching to slaves. Its focus is man's knowledge of salvation, and includes sections on the nature of God, the creation and fall, the life and nature of Christ, and the duties of the believer to God, master and family. It includes creeds and sacraments, a section on the Ten Commandments, Bible verses, and hymns.
Notes: Title from TEI header.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: Catechism for the use of Methodist missions. First part / by William Capers, one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. [3rd ed.] Charleston, [S.C.?] : John Early, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1853. 40 p. ; 14 cm. Cover shows publishing place as Richmond and date as 1852. Edition statement from preface. "Published by Order of the General Conference."

Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.

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