p. 165 | Methodism in 1776 and 1862

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1867

Methodism in 1776 and 1862.

THE following extract is from The History of the M. E. Church, Vol. 1, pp. 138–139. It shows quite a contrast between the Methodists of 1776 and 1861–2. “To those who were deeply interested in the success of our arms, and who were actuated only by the blind impulses of human nature in its depraved state, it was provoking to find a people in the midst of them, led on by a number of active and zealous preachers, who were from principle averse to war, for such was the case in respect to most of the preachers and people denominated Methodists.”