Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of Shearn Church: 1837-1907
The purpose of writing this book was two-fold: first, to preserve the history of the church; second, for the benefit of the mission work of the Shearn Auxiliary of Woman's Home Mission Society. The task has proved herculean, though at first it seemed easy, as everyone thought all the data could be obtained from Quarterly Conference Records and Minutes of Stewards'. Meetings, but not a record save the book in use by the present Recording Steward could be found. This showed the great necessity of gather ing up what could be found while yet some of the old time members and pastors were living. The writer began writing letters and visiting. Some of the let ters were never answered, some delayed so long it greatly retarded the work. However, accidentally, a book of records was found in a trash pile of waste paper; then a diligent and minute search was made and the records as far back as 1880 were found. This acquisition, valuable as it was, only covered about one-half the history of the church, and thus the history of more than forty years, years filled with stirring events, must be obtained, if at all, by getting reminiscences of those who helped make the history. These reminiscences were interesting, but often with out date - people remember events, but not dates, and therefore it was difficult to use them. One important item in church history - the number of members-could not be ascertained. For a decadeor more there is no note of the size of the membership. The writer applied to the Secretary of the Texas Con ference and received the reply: There is nothing in the minutes of the Conference especially concerning Shearn Church. Then an effort to obtain a set of the Annual Reports was made, but without success; nobody seemed to have kept the reports. Doubtless there are inaccuracies in the book, nu avoidably so, but not from carelessness or want of effort. There may be some disappointment that the record of some of the pastors is not longer and more in de tail; but this has been impossible; everything that could be obtained is in the book. 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.
