A history of Methodism in the United States . , founded twenty-two years before,hadbeen helpful in various reforms and to the church at large,had stimulated the journals owned by the denomination,and also tended to check the manifestation of a tyrannicalspirit in their management. But the reforms which it ad-vocated having been effected, and the Christian Advo-cate being conducted as a free forum for the discussionof all questions affecting Methodism, the circulation of the Methodist greatly declined, and its owners offered tosell its title, good will, and assets to the Book
A history of Methodism in the United States . , founded twenty-two years before,hadbeen helpful in various reforms and to the church at large,had stimulated the journals owned by the denomination,and also tended to check the manifestation of a tyrannicalspirit in their management. But the reforms which it ad-vocated having been effected, and the Christian Advo-cate being conducted as a free forum for the discussionof all questions affecting Methodism, the circulation of the Methodist greatly declined, and its owners offered tosell its title, good will, and assets to the Book it was purchased by the agents at New York,and ceased to exist in October, 1882. Bishop Peck, whose services give him a sure place inthe history of Methodism, died in Syracuse in May, with the oratoric temperament, in early andmiddle life he was famous as a preacher and platformspeaker and was also known as an author. The Rev. E. H. Gammon, a native of Maine, a super-annuated minister, who retired early because of a malady 246. WILLARD F. MALLALIEU. GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ENDOWED. 249 of the throat which did not interfere with his intellectualand physical energy, and who accumulated a large fortune,began in 1883 to give liberally to the establishment of atheological institute, organized under the charter of theClark University at Atlanta, though independent in gov-ernment. It was designed to prepare young men of Afri-can descent for the Methodist ministry. Subsequently hemade the institution residuary legatee, and, establishedupon a firm basis, it has already become a factor of un-equaled importance in the intellectual and moral develop-ment of the race for whose benefit it is designed, and throughit he has contributed much to the progress of the MethodistEpiscopal Church. The General Conference of 1884 assembled in Philadel-phia, and comprised a membership of four hundred andseventeen, of whom one hundred and fifty-six were lay-men. David S. Monroe was elec
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