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Title: Historical sketches of the foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church : from the origin of each to the end of the year 1880, with a map of each mission
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reid, J. M. (John Morrison), 1820-1896
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher: New York : Phillips & Hunt
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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hip offered him by authorities of the ProtestantEpiscopal Church in Kenyon College, Ohio. He however continued allthis time to struggle either with his former skeptical doubts or with a pro-found conviction of sin. He finally, while still professor in the college,found the light and rest of faith at a Methodist revival meeting, in Jan-uary, 1835. He at once felt it his duty to devote himself to the work ofpreaching, and being recommended to the Ohio Conference, received hisfirst appointment as German Missionary in the city of Cincinnati.Thus, in spite of other ecclesiastical influences, a man of such unusualforce as a leader seems to have been providentially set apart to originateour German Domestic Missions. The necessity for this work in Cincinnati, where the German popula-tion had already attained large proportions, had been clearly seen. Inthe first year of the mission many difficulties were realized, but successfollowed. Among the earlier converts in the progress of the work were
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GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND MISSION. 55 Messrs. Swahlen, Doering-, and Riemenschneider, who, with many others,have rendered eminent service as preachers. Other preachers, like AdamMiller, and later, John C. Lyon, who had been connected with English-speaking Conferences, from time to time joined the ranks of their Germanbrethren. Some, like Schmucker, came from the Lutlierans; others wereconverted soon after arriving from Germany. By 1840 the work began tospread into Pennsylvania. The next year it opened in New York, and soonin the South and beyond the Mississippi. We cannot further follow thedevelopment of the German Domestic Missions, but will state only thatthe result is now found in seven Conferences, extending over the country,which aggregated in 1880 38,379 full members, and 4,741 probationers.Four collegiate institutions are maintained among them, and theirperiodical and book publications, beginning with Dr. Nasts ChristianApologist, (1839,) are of great extent and influence. It has

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