The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . Morality 1047 number of churches aided by donations and loans was 11,677,providing sittings for 3,650,000 hearers. The Board of Church Extension has accomplished a mag-nificent work during the past three decades. Without itsassistance hundreds of churches which have by its aid beenerected all over the West and among the poor of other partsof our country would either never have been built or wouldbe burdened with crushing debts. New congregations haveby the reception of small donations been enabled to build,and in places where exorbitant rates of
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . Morality 1047 number of churches aided by donations and loans was 11,677,providing sittings for 3,650,000 hearers. The Board of Church Extension has accomplished a mag-nificent work during the past three decades. Without itsassistance hundreds of churches which have by its aid beenerected all over the West and among the poor of other partsof our country would either never have been built or wouldbe burdened with crushing debts. New congregations haveby the reception of small donations been enabled to build,and in places where exorbitant rates of interest are chargedthe board has placed loans at low rates. Not only from a denominational standpoint has this workbeen reviewed and commended by the Church, but its rela-tion to the civilization of the land has not been overlookedby the close student of national affairs. A church plantedby this society in a new country, soon followed by a school-house, has been the recognized guardian of the peace anda wellspring of morality and CHAPTER CIV Amid Wars Hottid Dm Patriotism Tested.—Consecration of Men and Money.—SanitaryCommission.—The Church Press.—Bishop Simpson and the Presi-dent.—Address to Mr. Lincoln.—His Famous Reply.—Deeds ofCharity in the South.—Peace. WHEN the civil war began, in 1861, few persons ineither the North or the South anticipated a bloodyand protracted struggle. Four years of carnageand suffering in the field, on the march, in the camp, and inhospital and prison were never prophesied. But this is thehistory Such an opportunity, however, has seldom pre-sented itself to the Church for the display of Christian man-liness and of brotherly benevolence. More than one hundred thousand members of the MethodistEpiscopal Church became soldiers, thus thinning, and insome localities almost depleting, many congregations. Pas-tors left the pulpit for the battlefield, while those whoremained never faltered in their public exhortations or their
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