{"product_id":"2940151228268","title":"Sketches of Western Methodism","description":"From the author's preface:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur book explains itself, so far as the object we had in view in getting it up is concerned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo supply a desideratum in the history of western Methodism, at least, so far as taking the incipient steps in that work is concerned, has prompted our endeavors. We have been at a great deal of labor in furnishing our readers with memorials of the past, connected with the lives of our early itinerant preachers, and collateral incidents in the history of the west, and we hope our labor has not been in vain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur readers will here find, as they turn over these pages, much, we trust, that is interesting and valuable in reference to olden time; and while they shall trace the life and labors of the pioneer Methodist preachers, in planting the standard of the cross in these western wilds before many of them were born, we hope they may be induced to engage with like zeal and devotion, to sustain the interests of the Church, and hand down to posterity, unimpaired and unadulterated, what our fathers have so nobly contented for in the well-fought field of itinerant life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe noble examples furnished in these sketches, of untiring labor and self-sacrificing devotion of those who cheerfully gave up all for Christ and the advancement of his cause, should stir up every impulse of our nature to emulate their virtues and strive to imitate their truly-heroic deeds. We would that our materials had been more ample for the work we had undertaken, that the sketches we have given of the pioneers might have been more satisfactory. Much had already perished, and the waves of oblivion were rapidly washing out the few traces that remained; but we have gathered up what we could, and have presented them in a form, not only sufficiently reliable for all purposes of reference for the future historian, but, we flatter ourselves, sufficiently attractive to render the book one of interest to all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShould our life be spared, we intend to prosecute this work still further; and as the materials will prove more abundant as we advance to the preachers of the present day, we hope to give increasing interest to our memorials of western Methodism. We have already promises from brethren in various conferences, spread over what was, in the days of our fathers, the Western conference, to warrant the expectation that a full and reliable history of our Church, and the many interesting incidents connected with its rise and progress in the great valley of the west, can be gathered up, that will prove a source of instruction and deep, powerful interest in rousing to higher activity, in promoting the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents are as follows:\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: INTRODUCTION OF METHODISM IN TO THE WEST\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BURKE\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: AUTOBIOGRAPHY CONTINUED\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: MICHAEL ELLIS\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE METHODISM IN CINCINNATI\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: FRANCIS POYTHRESS\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: BARNABAS McHENRY\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: THOMAS SCOTT\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: JOHN KOBLER\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: BENJAMIN LAKIN\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: JOHN SALE\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCHES IN OHIO\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: SAMUEL PARKER\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: LEARNER BLACKMAN\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: LOST CHILD, OR, \"THE CAMP OF LYDIA\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16: JAMES AXLEY\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17: JOSEPH OGLESBY\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18: WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19: GOVERNOR TIFFIN\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20: JOHN A. GRENADE\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21: THE WESTERN METHODIST BOOK CONCERN\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22: JOHN COLLINS\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23: NATHAN EMERY\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24: THE CONVERSION OF A FAMILY\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25: JOHN CRANE\u003cbr\u003eChapter 26: WILLIAM YOUNG\u003cbr\u003eChapter 27: THE CONVERSION OF AN INFIDEL\u003cbr\u003eChapter 28: ALEXANDER CUMMINS\u003cbr\u003eChapter 29: THE CONVERSION OF A CRUEL MASTER\u003cbr\u003eChapter 30: MARCUS LINDSEY\u003cbr\u003eChapter 31: THE GERMAN'S EXPERIENCE\u003cbr\u003eChapter 32: JOHN STRANGE\u003cbr\u003eChapter 33: WILLIAM FINLEY\u003cbr\u003eChapter 34: RUSSEL BIGELOW\u003cbr\u003eChapter 35: HENRY BASCOM\u003cbr\u003eChapter 36: SAMUEL HAMILTON\u003cbr\u003eChapter 37: WILLIAM ROPER\u003cbr\u003eChapter 38: JOHN ULIN\u003cbr\u003eChapter 39: WILLIAM PHILLIPS\u003cbr\u003eChapter 40: THE INTREPID MISSIONARY\u003cbr\u003eChapter 41: THOMAS DRUMMOND\u003cbr\u003eChapter 42: INDIAN CAMP MEETING\u003cbr\u003eChapter 43: CONVERSION OF AN INSPECTOR-GENERAL\u003cbr\u003eChapter 44: PIONEER WOMEN\u003cbr\u003eChapter 45: THE INDIAN CHIEF RHON-YAN-NESS","brand":"Jawbone Digital","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110136692976,"sku":"2940151228268","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151228268_p0.jpg?v=1764008675","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151228268","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}