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Winner of the 2015 Saddleback Selection Award from the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic outreach. Methodism in the American Forest explores the ways in which Methodist preachers interacted with and utilized the American woodland, and the role camp meetings played in the denomination's spread across the country. Half a century before they made themselves such a home in the woods, the people and preachers learned the hard way that only a fool would adhere to John Wesley's mandate for preaching in fields of the New World. Under the blazing American sun, Methodist preachers sought and found a better outdoor sanctuary for large gatherings: under the shade of great oaks, a natural cathedral where they held forth with fervid sermons. The American forests, argues Russell E. Richey, served the preachers in several important ways. Like a kind of Gethesemane, the remote, garden-like solitude provided them with a place to seek counsel from the Holy Spirit. They also saw the forest as a desolate wilderness, and a means for them to connect with Israel's years after the Exodus and Jesus's forty days in the desert after his baptism by John. The dauntless preachers slashed their way through, following America's expanding settlement, and gradually sacralizing American woodlands as cathedral, confessional, and spiritual challenge-as shady grove, as garden, and as wilderness. The threefold forest experience became a Methodist standard. The meeting of Methodism's basic governing body, the quarterly conference, brought together leadership of all levels. The event stretched to two days in length and soon great crowds were drawn by the preaching and eventually the sacraments that were on offer. Camp meetings, if not a Methodist invention, became the movement's signature, a development that Richey tracks throughout the years that Methodism matured, to become a central denomination in America's religious landscape.
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F0r the period before the Civil War East of the Mississippi River. This book affords additional enlightenment for genealogical researchers who are intent on finding their ancestors and in assuring accuracy in their research.
"William Graham was born in 1821 near York, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a large, impoverished, and religious family. William and the other Graham children were farmed out of their more prosperous German neighbors. During the summer William and his siblings earned wages, but in the winter they attended local schools and received room and board from their employers in exchange for performing light chores. Graham's formal schooling was quite limited. Although Graham had experienced a religious conversion at the age of eight, he converted a second time during a revival at the Beaver Street Church in 1841. In 1844 he was ordained as an itinerant Methodist preacher and served in that capacity until his full retirement in 1894." "Although Graham spent the bulk of his ministry in Indiana, he also worked as an apprentice house carpenter, was a Methodist circuit rider in western Arkansas, and served two years as a missionary/teacher among the Choctaws in Indian Territory. Graham moved to Indiana in 1847 and spent the remainder of his career in the northwestern part of the state. He served numerous churches, including those in La Porte, Lafayette, Indianapolis, Crawfordsville, Terre Haute, and Valparaiso. Graham died in 1897."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved