My business was to fight the Devil
Subtitle: recollections of Rev. Adam Wallace, peninsula circuit rider, 1847-1865
By: edited, with notes and biographical sketch by Joseph F. DiPaolo ; foreword by Frederick E. Maser.
Contributors: DiPaolo, Joseph F., 1961-
Publisher: Tapestry Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Acton, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781568882666
Subjects: Wallace, Adam, 1825-1903; Methodist Church -- Delmarva Peninsula -- Clergy -- Biography; Delmarva Peninsula -- Church history -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Frederick E. Maser; title: Preface; title: The brother seems too willing : a circuit rider called, 1847-1848; title: You look like a scanty pattern : on the Laurel and Annamessex circuits, 1848-1850; title: Singing the devil out of countenance : to Princess Anne and Cambridge, 1850-1852; title: A few marked epochs in my life : two eventful years around Lewes, Delaware, 1852-1854; title: My business was to fight the devil : troubles on the eastern shore of Virginia, 1854-1856; title: Storming the citadel of sin : to the Georgetown and Salisbury circuits, 1856-1859; title: Nothing to do but save souls : Salisbury, and back to Princess Anne, 1859-1861; title: Black Republicans : the presiding eldership and the Civil War, 1861-1862; title: Terrible devastation : presiding over the Snow Hill District, 1862-1864; title: Gratification indescribable : end of the war and the Eldership, 1864-1865; title: Rev. Adam Wallace, D.D. 1825-1903 : a biographical sketch; title: Appendices. Service record of Rev. Adam Wallace; title: The Wallace family; title: Wallace on camp meetings; title: Tomkinson's account of the 1864 revival; title: Concluding letter; title: Bibliography