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 . in 1832. Soit is not wonderful that the southernstates in 18(30 tried the fearful experi-ment of secession. The war betweenthe states was the most terrible in thehistory of mankind. But it did put tothe test the value of local remedies forthe settlement of differences betweenstates and the Federal Union. The peo-ple of this
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 . in 1832. Soit is not wonderful that the southernstates in 18(30 tried the fearful experi-ment of secession. The war betweenthe states was the most terrible in thehistory of mankind. But it did put tothe test the value of local remedies forthe settlement of differences betweenstates and the Federal Union. The peo-ple of this whole country have beentaught by the war to try no more localremedies, but to leave the adjustment oftheir troubles in the future to thesupreme court of the United States, andto the verdict of the whole people ex-pressed through constitutional countrymen will never be called tobattle with each other again. As oftenas they take up arms in the future it willbe against a common foe. In no part ofthis country is there to be found morelove for the Union than in the stateswhich attempted to leave it in 1860. In the year 1800 the Methodist Epis-copal Church, South, had on its mem-bership roll 587,loO white members, (651) 652 The Illustrated History of BISHOP WILLIAM CAPERS. 207,776 colored members, and 4,160 In-dian members, a total of over three-quarters of a million. In 1866 the mem-bership of the Church had fallen to511,161, a loss of a quarter of a millionas the result of the war. What the sec-tion of the country occupied by theSouthern Church suffered between theyears 1860 and 1866 is a record that cannever be written. Henry W Grady,the brilliant southern editor and orator,in a speech delivered before the NewEngland Society at its annual banquetin New York city in 1886, spoke of thereturn of the southern soldier to hisruined home after the surrender of Gen-eral L,ee at Appomattox. Will youbear with me, said he, while I tellyou of another army (contrasting t
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