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Excerpt from Indiana Methodism: Being an Account of the Introduction, Progress, and Present Position of Methodism in the State; And Also a History of the Literary Institutions Under the Care of the Church, With Sketches of the Principal Methodist Educators in the State, Down to 1872
N writing the following account of Methodism in In diana, I have desired not only to rescue from oblivion valuable information that would soon be lost, but also to pay a feeble, but justly merited, tribute to the heroic pioneers and founders of Methodism in our state. The record of their toils is found chiefly in the numerous and flourishing Churches that have sprung up all over the state, in the multitudes of living witnesses to the truth and power of the Gospel that they preached, in the schools of learning which they founded, in the vigor of the benovolent institutions which they fostered, and in the educational effect produced by their earnest and evangelical preaching on the public mind and conscience. The pulpit is always a popular educator, and its teachings are the basis of doctrinal belief, to a great ex tent, in every Christian community. This is especially true in a community where books are scarce, and in a state of society where the opportunities for reading are limited. Such was necessarily the case with the early settlers in Indiana. 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.
