. The history of Methodism. REV. JOHN CARROLL. Archbishop of Baltimore. The First Roman Catholic bishopin the United Slates. In the Name of Liberty 265 time of the lowest general morality in American Churches lamented conditions which they seemed power-less to control. In 1779 the Presbyterian synod publicly be-. AFTER WELCH S EKGRAVNG PROM TnE By lOMiACRE. WILLIAM WHITE, 1 i-hop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania. moaned the great and increasing decay of vital piety, thedegeneracy of manners . . and the prevalence of viceand immorality throughout
. The history of Methodism. REV. JOHN CARROLL. Archbishop of Baltimore. The First Roman Catholic bishopin the United Slates. In the Name of Liberty 265 time of the lowest general morality in American Churches lamented conditions which they seemed power-less to control. In 1779 the Presbyterian synod publicly be-. AFTER WELCH S EKGRAVNG PROM TnE By lOMiACRE. WILLIAM WHITE, 1 i-hop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania. moaned the great and increasing decay of vital piety, thedegeneracy of manners . . and the prevalence of viceand immorality throughout the land. In the name of liberty—the god of the time—the Sab-bath was desecrated, the Bible blasphemed, and the mostsacred rites of Christianity derided. The baneful influence 266 American Methodism of France further showed itself in the weakening of thematrimonial tie, and in the prevalence of dueling as a meansof personal redress of wrong. The habit of moderate drinking, which had been generalbefore the war, was frightfully extended when the return-ing veterans brought home the intemperance of camp became a national characteristic, the only re-deeming feature of the situation being found in the factthat its horrors called forth the first temperance agitation. The outlook for the old Thirteen
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