The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . residence; OF BISHOP HAYGOOD, OXFORD, GEORGIA. Conference of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch may from time to time pre-scribe. This founding in the city of New Yorkof the Missionary Society of the Meth-odist Episcopal Church led to increasedactivity in mission work. At the Gen-eral Conference held in the followingyear a recom
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . residence; OF BISHOP HAYGOOD, OXFORD, GEORGIA. Conference of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch may from time to time pre-scribe. This founding in the city of New Yorkof the Missionary Society of the Meth-odist Episcopal Church led to increasedactivity in mission work. At the Gen-eral Conference held in the followingyear a recommendation was sent to theAnnual Conferences to found branchmissionary societies. In accordance withthis policy, William Capers was selected,at the 1X21 session of the South CarolinaConference, to set on foot a mission tothe Creek Indians, then occupying landsin Georgia and Alabama, east and westof the Chattahoochee river. During thenext two years he gave his full attentionto the work of evangelizing this nation,establishing schools and erecting missionpremises. One of these schools, knownas the Asbury Manual Labor School,and located at Fort Mitchell, close tothe present city of Columbus, was keptup for many years. The removal ofthese Indian tribes to their present t
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