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 . 1789, while a preacher at Philadel-phia, the Methodist Book Concern,the nucleus of the largest religious pub-lishing house in Protestant original capital was six hundred dol-lars, which came out of Dickins ownpocket; and the first work issued fromits press was the Christian Pattern,being Wesleys translation
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 . 1789, while a preacher at Philadel-phia, the Methodist Book Concern,the nucleus of the largest religious pub-lishing house in Protestant original capital was six hundred dol-lars, which came out of Dickins ownpocket; and the first work issued fromits press was the Christian Pattern,being Wesleys translation of the famous / 4H .Jr -*11Pp \Z-~- «. * #*$* Jb, ,*«* w®&&$ ~W jg^^L REV. J. M liONNELL, ,President of Wesleyan Female College. De Imitatione Christi, that hand-book of the devout in all lands. Eightyears later the Church began to exercisea direct supervision over the Concern byappointing a committee to which allbooks should be submitted before publi-cation. The General Conference of theprevious year had favored the publica-tion of a Methodist missionary maga-zine for the United States; but it tookanother twenty years ere the magazineproject was carried into effect. At thebeginning of the century the Concern 516 The Illustrated History of JAMES H. CARLISLE, President of Wofford College, South Carolina. was moved from Philadelphia to NewYork. The publication of the Methodist Mag-azitie in 1818, under the editorship ofJoshua Soule, is almost contemporaneouswith the fresh educational impetus. Theomission of the word -missionary fromthe title may show that its scope wasmeant to be wider than the particularenterprises of the Church. When Soule,inexperienced in matters editorial, tookcharge of the Concern, he found it with-out capital and with a stock of unsalablematerial. He immediately set himselfto improve matters, by securing thefinancial aid of two Baltimore friends,Messrs. Bryce and L,ittig, who possessedmeans, and by turning out fresh litera-ture. His sagac
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