A History Of Methodism In Alabama PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII. The Work Of Methodism In Alabama Undeb The New Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. FOR the series of years beginning with 1846, when the Southern jurisdiction went into operation, and running to the time of the civil war between the States, the Tennessee Conference had in the State of Alabama two entire Districts, the Huntsville and the Florence, the last sometimes called Tuscumbia. The membership in the two Districts, including both races, aggregated something over six thousand. There was from year to year some fluctuation in numbers, though the variation for all these years was not very great. The leading preachers who occupied in the two Districts in the beautiful Tennessee Valley during a decade and a half of years were: The Revs. Samuel S. Moody, Thomas Maddin, W. G. Hensley, Heury P. Turner, Thomas W. Randle, James W. Allen, Justinian AVilliams, Adam S. Riggs, Finch P. Scruggs, W. D. F. Sawrie, W. R. J. Husbands, Moses M. Henkle, Anderson G. Copeland, A. F. Driskill, J. D. Barbee, Alexander R. Erwin, Pleasant B. Robinson, J. R. Plumer, Wellborn Mooney. The Rev. S. S. Moody was born in Virginia, in 1810, and died May 5, 1863. His last work in Alabama was the Florence Station. A hard worker, calm and saintly, he was classed as one of "the brightest and the best" of the preachers of the Tennessee Conference. The Rev. Thomas Maddin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1796, and he died in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1874. His father was a Romanist, and trained him in that faith, but he was brought into a saving knowledge of the grace of God by the Methodists, whom he found in his native place, and he, in the midst of bitter opposition, cast his lot with that people. He was licensed to preach in 1818, and continued...