. The history of Methodism. ur own books than ever before, and theprincipal part of the printing business was carried on in NewYork. The famous Xew York Conference of May, 1789, not onlyvoted the historic address to President Washington, madeplans for missions among the Indians, and commissionedJesse Lee to invade the enemys country of New England,but it has the honor of proposing the plan for the establish-ment of the Methodist Book Concern, a name which firstappears in the Conference Minutes of 1792. Coke wrote of its action: We have now settled our print-ing business, I trust, on an advanta
. The history of Methodism. ur own books than ever before, and theprincipal part of the printing business was carried on in NewYork. The famous Xew York Conference of May, 1789, not onlyvoted the historic address to President Washington, madeplans for missions among the Indians, and commissionedJesse Lee to invade the enemys country of New England,but it has the honor of proposing the plan for the establish-ment of the Methodist Book Concern, a name which firstappears in the Conference Minutes of 1792. Coke wrote of its action: We have now settled our print-ing business, I trust, on an advantageous footing both forthe people individually and for the connection at large, asit is fixed on a secure basis and on a very enlarged people will thereby be amply supplied with books ofpure divinity for their reading, which is of the next impor-tance to preaching; and the profits of the books are to beapplied partly to finish and pay off the debt of our collegeand partly to establish missions and schools among the. 398 American Methodism Indians. The Rev. John Dickins, to whom the Conferenceof 1789 confided the stewardship of the book business, was eminently adapted forthis work. Both wise andlearned, no better selectioncould have been to America before the Revolution, he united with theMethodists, and in 1777 was taken on trial as a work lay chiefly in North Carolina and Virginia until theBritish evacuation of New York, when he was selected forthe responsible task of reviving the old John Street society,which, after long isolation, had lost its most substantial mem-bers in the Loyalist exodus. He was a married man, and forthe first time the preachers house in New York rejoiced ina gentle mistress, and the voices of children were mingled inthe hymns which were sung around the family altar. Dickinswas reappointed to New York every year but one until 1789,the society multiplying in numbers and grace during hisprotracted term of service. The Conf
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