History of the Free Methodist Church of North America

Volume I

By Wilson T. Hogue

Chapter

 
TITLE PAGE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
CHAPTER  
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS
II 
SPIRITUAL DECLINE OF AMERICAN METHODISM—THE ZINZENDORFIAN HERESY
III 
SPIRITUAL DECLINE OF AMERICAN METHODISM—TOLERATION OF SLAVERY
IV 
SPIRITUAL DECLINE OF AMERICAN METHODISM—SECRET SOCIETIES
A CRISIS APPROACHING IN GENESES CONFERENCES
VI 
HISTORICAL MISREPRESENTATIONS—THREE AUTHORS REVIEWED
VII 
HISTORICAL MISREPRESENTATIONS—GENERAL SUPERINDENT ROBERTS VERSUS BISHOP SIMPSON
VIII 
HISTORICAL MISREPRESENTATIONS CONTINUED—ALLEGED “NAZARITE UNION” DENIED
IX 
HISTORICAL MISREPRESENTATIONS—“NAZARITE DOCUMENTS” AND GENESEE CONFERENCE ACTION
MINISTERIAL CONCLAVE IN GENESEE CONFERENCE
XI 
DOINGS OF THE MINISTERIAL CONCLAVE
XII 
FURTHER DOINGS OF THE MINISTERIAL CONCLAVE
XIII 
RELIGION OF THE DOMINANT PARTY— ”NEW SCHOOL METHODISM”
XIV 
RELIGION OF THE DOMINANT PARTY—TESTIMONY OF ITS OWN REPRESENTATIVES
XV 
RELIGION OF THE SO-CALLED NAZARITES
XVI 
RELIGION OF THE SO-CALLED NAZARITES—CONTINUED
XVII 
ECCLESIASTICAL PROSCRIPTION BEGUN—CASES OF JOSEPH M'CREERY AND LOREN STILES, JR.
XVIII 
ECCLESIASTICAL PROSCRIPTION CONTINUED—PROCEEDINGS AGAINST B. T. ROBERTS
XIX 
THE CONFLICT DEEPENING—MR. ROBERTS AGAIN ON TRIAL
XX 
CRISIS OF THE CONFLICT—ROBERTS AND M’CREERY EXPELLED
XXI 
FURTHER PERSECUTIONS—”A REIGN OF TERROR”
XXII 
LAYMEN’S CONVENTION—A DIGNIFIED PROTEST
XXIII 
WAR AGAINST THE LAYMEN
XXIV 
MORE PREACHERS ECCLESIASTICALLY BEHEADED
XXV 
MORE PREACHERS ECCLESIASTICALLY BEHEADED—CONTINUED
XXVI 
THE SECOND LAYMEN’S CONVENTION
XXVII 
THE CRUSHING-OUT PROCESS CONTINUED
XXVIII 
EARLY DEVELOPMENTS IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS
XXIX 
THE THIRD LAYMEN’S CONVENTION
XXX 
THE GENERAL CONFERENCE AND THE APPEALS FROM GENESES
XXXI 
THE GENERAL CONFERENCE AND THE APPEALS FROM GENESEE—CONTINUED
XXXII 
THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH ORGANIZED
XXXIII 
FORMATION OF THE GENESEE CONFERENCE
XXXIV 
FORMATION OF THE ILLINOIS CONFERENCE
XXXV 
THE SUSQUEHANNA CONFERENCE ORGANIZED
XXXVI 
THE SUSQUEHANNA CONFERENCE—PROMINENT ACCESSIONS
XXXVII 
FORMATION OF THE NEW YORK CONFERENCE