Oklahoma Methodism In The 20th Century

Author : Sidney Henry Babcock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528121453
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book History of Methodism in Oklahoma, Vol. 1 written by Sidney Henry Babcock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Methodism in Oklahoma, Vol. 1: Story of Indian Mission Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; 1935 The first great mission of the Methodist Church in the United States was to the Indians. The purpose of this book is to give a story of that mission from its beginning in the East in 1820 until the close of the Indian Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1896. After the division of the Metho dist Church in 1844, this story will deal especially with the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1910 when the Oklahoma Conference, succes sor to the Indian Mission Conference, was divided into the East Oklahoma Conference and the West Oklahoma Conference, the East Oklahoma Conference fell heir to all the records and history of the Indian Mission Conference. The East Oklahoma Conference at its session in 1926 appointed the Reverend J ohn Y. Bryce to prepare for publication a history of Methodism in Oklahoma. In response to that request, with much labor and expense, he gathered together the broken fragments of the labors of the men of the church dur ing the period. When the two Conferences were united under the name, Oklahoma Conference, the Reverend Sidney H. Babcock was added to the Historical Commission and asked to aid in the preparation of the history. His task was to organize the material assembled, relate it to contemporaneous history and weave the story. The Methodist Church had a vital part in the maintenance of order, the promotion of education and the building of a civilization during the constant changes that were occasioned by the efforts of the United States government first, to colonize the Indians in a territory all their own, and aid the various tribes to set up governments under their own national coun cils; and then, to undo all that had been done by de stroying the national integrity of the various Indian nations and uniting them under the Stars and Stripes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.