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 . ,to be issued at these centers; and a Nash-ville Christian Advocate, with John as editor. H. B. Bascom waselected editor of a Quarterly Review, andprovision was made for the starting of aSunday-school journal. It was resolved to increase the numberof bishops by the election of two othersto the office. The choice,
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 . ,to be issued at these centers; and a Nash-ville Christian Advocate, with John as editor. H. B. Bascom waselected editor of a Quarterly Review, andprovision was made for the starting of aSunday-school journal. It was resolved to increase the numberof bishops by the election of two othersto the office. The choice, at the secondballot, fell on William Capers, of SouthCarolina, and on Robert Paine, of Ten-nessee, who, at the great New YorkConference, had been chairman of thecommittee which drew up the Plan ofPacification. He was a typical speci-men of the Southern gentlemen of theold school, courteous and scholarly. Heentered the Tennessee Conference in theyear 1816, and saw hardships and perilsin Alabama and among the Choctaw In-dians. Eight years later, when presid-ing elder in Tennessee, he attended theGeneral Conference at Baltimore. Dur-ing these years Paine saw much of Mc-Kendree, now grown aged and feeble,and proved a valued and much-lovedhenchman. Eater, when McKendree. REV. ANDREW MONROE,A prominent minister of the Missouri Conference. The Illustrated History of Methodism 543
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