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 . 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 theyea
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 . 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 thesouthern with the northern) that sought. W. G. E. CTJNNYNGHAM. its home at the close of the late war?An army that marched home in defeatand not victory, in pathos and notsplendor, but in glory that equaledyours, and to hearts as loving as everwelcomed heroes home. Let me pictureto you the footsore Confederate soldier,as, buttoning up in his faded gray jacketthe parole which was to bear testimonyto his children of his fidelity and faith,he turned his face southward from Appo-mattox in April, 1865. Think of him asragged, half-starved, horny-handed, en-feebled by want and wounds; havingfought to exhaustion, he surrenders hisgun, wrings the hands of his comradesin silence, and lifting his tear-stainedand pallid face for the last time to thegroves that dot the old Virginia hills,pulls his gray cap over his brow and be-
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