The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . esident, made a statement inwriting of the history of the Publishing House, and a fewdays thereafter was pleased to have the President send anorder to the post commander to restore the House to theauthorities of the Church. He immediately,in connectionwith R. Abbey, took possession, and began to set things inorder. The book store was refitted and the publication ofthe Nashville Christian Advocate resumed. To fully appreciate the changed conditions which confront-ed the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at the close of thewar and during the peri
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . esident, made a statement inwriting of the history of the Publishing House, and a fewdays thereafter was pleased to have the President send anorder to the post commander to restore the House to theauthorities of the Church. He immediately,in connectionwith R. Abbey, took possession, and began to set things inorder. The book store was refitted and the publication ofthe Nashville Christian Advocate resumed. To fully appreciate the changed conditions which confront-ed the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at the close of thewar and during the period of reconstruction, one needs tostudy minutely the national history of those days. Everyact of the government affecting Southern citizens more or lessaffected the same citizens in their domestic and ecclesias-tical life. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at the beginningof the war was rich in men and money; now it was bereft ofmany of its best men and nearly all of its money, but it facedits responsibility with remarkable hope and CHAPTER CXXXI Southern Missions to the Indians Evangelization Difficult.—Indian Character Peculiar.—Drunk-enness and Sabbath-breaking a Common Trouble.—Argumentfor Divinity of Christianity.—Prohibition by Means of a Brok-en Head.—The Ardor of the Wyandottes.—Religious Life ofYoung People.—Methodist Hymns and Outdoor Services.—The Work of Training Schools.—Recent Movements. THE problem of evangelizing the red man, so far asMethodism could do it, was solved by a Methodist,Bishop McKendree, who ate at his table, conversedwith him on personal religion, and gave him admirablecounsel. McKendree believed in the Indians future. Butthe missions to the Indians were slow of movement andoccasionally had to be abandoned. Have you any temptations to go back to your formercourse of life? said McKendree to a certain chief. Yes,replied the Indian, both from within and without. Oftenthe devil throws them in my way; but I resist them by
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