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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History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ

by Daniel Berger

INDEX

Academies and colleges, 477, 641.

Africa, missions in, of general board, 434.
of woman's board, 462.
conference in, 632.

Agents of the Publishing House, 418, 638.

Albright, Jacob, 192,193,194,195.

Allegheny Conference, 573, 483.

Allen, Samuel B., 501, 502.

Altman, Nehemiah, 284, 414, 418, 638, 639.

Ambrose, M. H., 511.

American Missionary Association, 436, 442.

Annual conferences, 555.
time of organization, 642.

Antrim, Jacob, 406, 557.

Appendices, 657.

Archer, Mary, 468.

Arkansas Valley Conference, 625.

Arnold, Valentine, 26, 27, 39, 40, 41.

Asbury, Francis, 49, 86, 87, 189, 190, 193, 210, 211.
quoted, 86, 210, 212, 221.
ordination of, 211, 212.

Auglaize Conference, 593.

Avalon College, 511.

Baltzell, Isaiah, 572, 654.

Bangs, Nathan, quoted, 200, 212, 221.
cited, 173.

Bartlett, Norman B., 504, 506.

Baulus, Jacob, 239, 162, 171,175, etc.

Beal, A. M., 356, 361, 377, 496, 500.

Beardshear, William M., 356, 361, 377, 496, 500, 557.

Beeken, Emily, 463.

Bell, William M., 452, 417, 450, 588, 639.

Benedum, George, 240, 175, 181,185, 186, 222.

Berger, Christian, 238, 174, 175, 176, 179, 182,183,194, 222, etc., 627.

Berger, Daniel, 387, 393, 413, 414,423, 525, 638, 651, 653.

Bible Normal Union, 538, 650.

Bibliography, 651.

Biddle, Alexander, 267, 560, 578.

Bierman, E. Benjamin, 507, 508, 509.

Bigler, Regina, 473, 474.

Billheimer, J. K., 438, 439, 440, 453, 557, 613, 639.

Billheimer, Mrs. A. L., 296, 439, 440, 462, 613.

Bischoff, C, 447, 469.

Bishops, 637.
ordination of, 650.

Bittle, Elma, 468.

Board of Education, 531, 324, 640.

Board of Trustees of the Church, 549.

Boehm, Henry, 162, 167,169.
quoted, 168, 200, 211, 213.
cited, 198.

Boehm, Martin, 63,113,134,135, 145,161, 162, 167, 170 ff., 197, 650.
in Virginia, 72.
and Otterbein, 78.
and the Mennonites, 114.
and the Methodist Church, 197 ff.
death, 197.

Bonebrake, D., 563.

Bonebrake, Henry, 267.

Bonnet's School-house, 223.

Book publications, 417.

Bookwalter, Lewis, 500, 361, 354, 357, 361, 377, 496, 502, 519, 557, 640, 652, 654.

Booth, Benjamin F., 452, 393, 550, 627, 639.

Bowersox, C. A., 493.

Brane, C. I. B., 457, 628, 629, 639.

Bright, John C, 303, 427, 428, 451, 578, 639.

Brooke, C. M., 504, 505, 506, 602.

Brown, William, 258, 246, 254, 260, 637, 650.

Buckley, J. M., quoted, 216.

Bufkin, L. H., 501, 609.

Burtner, L. O., 443, 444, 445, 629.

Burtner, Mrs. L. O., 443, 444, 445.
 

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