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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

 

PART I

GENERAL HISTORY

INTRODUCTORY PERIOD—1752-1774

Preliminary

Ch.1—Philip William Otterbein

Ch.2—Mr. Otterbein in America

Ch.3—Otterbein and Boehm

SECOND PERIOD—1774-1800

Ch.4—Mr. Otterbein called to Baltimore

Ch.5—The Otterbein Church in Baltimore

Ch.6—The Movement Toward a Separate Church Organization

Ch.7—The First and Second Conferences

Ch.8—Newcomer and Associates

THIRD PERIOD—1800-1815

Ch.9—The Conferences of 1800

Ch.10—The Conferences of 1801-1814

Ch.11—Friendly Correspondence

Ch.12—The Departure of the Leaders

FOURTH PERIOD—1815-1837

Ch.13—The First General Conference—1815

Ch.14—The General Conferences of 1817-1833

FIFTH PERIOD—1837-1885

Ch.15—The General Conferences of 1837 and 1841

Ch.16—The General Conferences of 1845 and 1849

Ch.17—The General Conferences of 1853-1861

Ch.18—The General Conferences of 1865-1881

SIXTH PERIOD—1885-1897

Ch.19—The Nineteenth General Conference—1885

Ch.20—The Church Commission

Ch.21—The Twentieth General Conference—1889

Ch.22—A Period of Litigation

Ch.23—The Twenty-First General Conference—1893

 

PART II

DEPARTMENTS OF CHURCH WORK

Ch.1—The United Brethren Publishing House

Ch.2—The Home, Frontier, and Foreign Missionary Society and Its Work

Ch.3—The Church-Erection Society

Ch.4—The Woman's Missionary Association

Ch.5—Colleges and Academies

Ch.6—Union Biblical Seminary

Ch.7—The Board of Education

Ch.8—Sunday-School Work

Ch.9—The Young People's Christian Union

Ch.10—The Board of Trustees of the Church

Ch.11—The Historical Society

 

PART III

THE ANNUAL CONFERENCES

Ch.1—A Group of Early Conferences

Ch.2—Other Conferences Organized from 1835 to 1853

Ch.3—Conferences Organized Since 1853

 

PART IV

HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES

Bibliography

Appendices

  Confession of Faith

  Publishing House Suit

Index

 

 


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Work originally published in 1897.

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ILLUSTRATIONS


William Otterbein1

Frontispiece

 

OPPOSITE PAGE

Dillenburg in the Eighteenth Century

20

William Otterbein2

28

Martin Boehm

64

Isaac Long's Barn

80

Otterbein's Church, Baltimore

88

Otterbein's Church and Tomb in 1897

89

Home of Peter Kemp

160

Bonnet's School-House

223

Joseph Hoffman

276

William Brown

276

Jacob Erb

276

Henry Kumler, Jun.

276

John Coons

277

John Russel

277

William Hanby

277

Lewis Davis

277

Jacob J. Glossbrenner

284

David Edwards

298

Jacob Markwood

322

John Dickson

322

William R. Rhinehart

322

John C. Bright

322

Solomon Vonnieda

323

William Mittendorf

323

David L. Rike

323

Jacob Hoke

323

Jonathan Weaver

334

The United Brethren Publishing House in 1897

405

The United Brethren Publishing House at Circleville

412

The United Brethren Publishing House at Dayton in 1854

413

Otterbein University — Main Building

488

Christian Association Building, Otterbein University

489

Western College—Main Building

496

Union Biblical Seminary

528

John Kemp

529

1A steel engraving from an oil painting from life by Jarvis, the original being in possession of Mr. George Hoffman, of Leesburg, Virginia, for whose grandfather, Mr. Peter Hoffman, a vestryman in Otterbein's church, the painting was made, in October, 1810

2From a lithograph based upon an oil painting in possession of the Methodist Historical Society at Baltimore, Maryland.

 
 

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