Circuit-Rider Days Along The Ohio; Being The Journals Of The Ohio Conference From Its Organization In 1812 To 1826 - Softcover

Warren Sweet, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9354449816 ISBN 13: 9789354449819

Publisher: Alpha Editions, 2021

Synopsis

Ride with the young Methodist preachers who followed rough trails along the Ohio River, keeping faith alive in a raw new land. The frontier was never silent. Circuit-Rider Days Along the Ohio gathers the official journals of the Ohio Conference from 1812 to 1826, a rare body of Methodist circuit rider journals charting the growth of early American Methodism on the edge of settlement. Here are decisions taken in frontier settlements and meeting-houses, notes on revivals and discipline, glimpses of Methodist itinerant preachers travelling huge circuits to scattered communities. Edited by renowned church historian William Warren Sweet, this frontier religious history book stands as a foundational source for American frontier religion studies, early Ohio church records, and the social story of the 1810s Ohio Valley and early nineteenth-century Ohio. For church history researchers and for Ohio history buffs alike, these records open a window onto how communities worshipped, organised, argued and reconciled as the Ohio Valley frontier religion took shape. The volume belongs with any serious William Warren Sweet collection, yet its vivid period detail and human voices also reward the curious general reader and the classic-literature collector who values authentic primary sources. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alpha Editions
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9354449816
• ISBN 13: 9789354449819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306