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Record #:
21828
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Focusing on the town of Wilmington and the surrounding area, this article focuses on the efforts of white Baptist and Methodist preachers to bring religion to the region, as well as on the role of the Methodist Church in the lives of black evangelicals and their lives as compared to black evangelicals in other parts of the state.
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Record #:
3784
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When the Revolutionary War broke the ties with the Anglican Church, the Methodist societies within it became the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. Methodist circuit riders, or preachers, assigned to a particular territory, rode far and wide to bring religion to the people.
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3850
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Because of their emphasis on heartfelt faith, Baptist and Methodist churches appealed to people more than the Anglican church's emphasis on wealth and liturgy. The first Baptist church was founded in Camden County in 1727, while Methodists became a denomination in December, 1784.
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35642
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The passage of years wasn’t enough to dim the recollection of a sixth grade teacher like Miss Elva and classmate like Jeffro Tillerson. Though they were gone in a sense by the time of Beauchamp’s writing, they were still alive in memory, and worthy of written recollection.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 6 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1978, p14-16
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20010
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This article is the reprint of a letter from Braxton Craven, minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to Bishop Edward Raymond Ames of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Northern Branch) written on July 24, 1865. The introduction establishes the letter in the period of fierce sectionalism between the North and South, and offers Craven's letter as an example of the not uncommon situation wherein a prominent figure seeks to reunite an organization that has been divided due to general sectionalism in the nation. Some background on the divide in the Methodist Episcopal Church is also provided.
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