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

BIBLIOGRAPHY¹

^p.651 I. The Church of the United Brethren in Christ—Its Doctrine,
History, Organization, and Worship in General.

Berger, D., in American Church History Series, Vol. XII. New York, Christian Literature Co., 1894. —In Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religions Knowledge. Vol. IV. Third revised edition. New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1891.

Carroll, H. K., The Religious Forces of the United States. New York, Christian Literature Co., 1893.

Drury, A. W., in People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge. Vol. III. Revised edition. New York, Hunt & Eaton, 1886. —(Editor), Disciplines of the United Brethren in Christ, 1814-1841. 1895.

Drury, M. R., in Columbian Cyclopedia. Vol. XXX. New York (now Buffalo), Garretson, Cox & Co., 1893.

Fisher, G. P., History of the Christian Church. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.

Hurst, J. F., Short History of the Christian Church. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1893.

Kephart, E. B., A Manual of Church Discipline of the United Brethren in Christ. 1895.

Origin, Doctrine, Constitution, and Discipline of the United Brethren in Christ. In English and German. Revised quadrennially. Last edition, 1897.

Shuey, E. L., Handbook of the United Brethren in Christ. Last edition, 1897.

Shuey, W. J., in McClintock and Strong's Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Vol. X. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1869-87.

Weaver, J., in Sanford's Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. New York, Charles L. Webster & Co., 1890.

II. Manuscript Collections of Historical Material.

The library of the Historical Society of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, at Dayton, Ohio, contains the ordination license and a number of letters of Otterbein, and possesses manuscripts and records pertaining to the history of the Church. Among these are the records of numerous annual conferences and of some local congregations.

The official records of the proceedings of the General Conferences from the beginning are in charge of the publishing agent, at Dayton.

III. Printed Collections.

1. Bibliography.

Shuey, W. A., Manual of the United Brethren Publishing House: Historical and Descriptive. 1892. Pp. 303-322.

Catalogue of the United Brethren Publishing House. Issued annually.

^p.652 2. Statistics.

Carroll, H. K., The Religious Forces of the United States. New York, Christian Literature Co., 1893.

Shuey, W. J., Year-Book of the United Brethren in Christ. Published annually since 1867.

A table of comparative statistics, from 1813 to 1887, was published in the Year-Book for 1888. A revised table, brought down to 1896, is printed on pp. 646-648 of this volume.

3. Minutes of General and Annual Conferences.

Proceedings of the General Conferences of the United Brethren in Christ. Published quadrennially since 1865. Stenographically reported (except 1865). Edited by W. J. Shuey.

Most of the annual conferences issue the minutes of their annual sessions in pamphlet form. Files of these (not complete) are preserved in the library of the United Brethren Historical Society, at Dayton. Minutes are also published in the Religious Telescope, Dayton.

4. Histories of Conferences.

Luttrell, J. L.,. History of the Auglaize Annual Conference of the United Brethren Church, from 1853 to 1891. 1892.

McKee, W., History of the Miami Annual Conference. In Religious Telescope, Vol. LII. (1886), pp. 98, 114, 130, 162, 178, 290, 386, 498, 530, 546, 562 ; Vol. LIII. (1887), pp. 50, 146; Vol. LVI. (1890), p. 596.

Mathers, W., Brief History of Sandusky Conference. Toledo, Ohio.

5. Histories of Institutions.

Bookwalter, L., A Brief History of Western College. To 1876. Western College, Western (now Toledo), Iowa, 1876.

Cowden, R., A Century of Sabbath-School Work in the United Brethren Church. Article in Quarterly Review of the United Brethren in Christ, Vol. IV., No. 2. 1893.

Flickinger, D. K., Our Missionary Work from 1853 to 1889. 1889.
This work contains a history of the operations of the missionary societies of the Church, and includes biographies of officers and missionaries.

Garst, H., History of Otterbein University. In preparation.

Landis, J. P., History of Union Biblical Seminary. In preparation.

Marot, Mrs. B., Miller, Mrs. L. K., and Keister, Mrs. L. R., History of the Woman's Missionary Association of the United Brethren in Christ. Last edition, with supplement by Mrs. B. Marot, Mrs. L. K. Miller, and Mrs. B. F. Witt. 1894.

Shuey, W. A., Manual of the United Brethren Publishing House: Historical and Descriptive. 1834-1892. Illustrated. 1892.

This manual includes biographical sketches of editors, publishing agents, and trustees, with numerous portraits, and a bibliography. For a brief historical outline of Otterbein University, see H. Garst in the United Brethren Year-Book for 1888, and M. R. Drury in Columbian Cyclopedia; of Union Biblical Seminary, see United Brethren Year-Book for 1888; of Western College, see W. M. Beardshear in United Brethren Year-Book for 1889; of Young People's Christian Union, see United Brethren Year-Book for 1891, and Religious Telescope, Vol. LVII. (1891), p. 282.

6. Histories of Congregations.

As the history of congregations is chiefly of local interest, no attempt is here made to present a list of such publications.

^p.653 7. Collections of Biographies.

Thompson, H. A., Our Bishops. Portraits. Chicago, 1889.

8. Legal Trials and Decisions.

Circuit Court of the Second Circuit, Montgomery County, Ohio, Decision in the Publishing House Case. 1891, —June Term, 1891 (testimony of plaintiffs in Rike et al. v. Floyd et al.), printed depositions of Dr. Philip Schaff, Dr. James Strong, and Bishop J. M. Walden on the Revised Confession of Faith of the United Brethren in Christ.

Drury, A. W., Ecclesiastical Constitution, Considered in Reference to the Recent Changes Adopted by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. 1890.

Shuey, W. J., An Outline History of Our Church Troubles. 1889.

Supreme Court of Indiana, Decision in the Case of the United Brethren in Christ vs. the Seceders from Said Church. 1891.

Supreme Court of Ohio, Affirmation of Decision of Circuit Court. 1895.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Decision in the Case of the United Brethren in Christ vs. the Seceders from Said Church. 1893.

Weaver, J., and Shuey, W. J., A Consideration of the Acts of the General Conference of 1885. 1888.

The above are only a few of the numerous publications relating to the recent controversy in the denomination, and to the legal trials resulting from the division in the Church which occurred in 1889. Many others have been issued by the United Brethren Publishing House.

9. Miscellaneous.

The files of the Religious Telescope, from the founding in 1834 to the present, preserved at the Publishing House at Dayton, Ohio, are replete with valuable information bearing upon all phases of the life of the Church. The Unity Magazine, 1853-59, and the Quarterly Review, founded in 1890, also contain articles relating to the history, doctrine, and polity, and to the educational, missionary, and other work of the Church.

IV. Denominational Relations.

Drury, A. W., in Life of Rev. Philip William Otterbein. 1881.

V. Histories.

1. General.

Berger, D., History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Illustrated. 1897.

Hanby, W., History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, from 1825 to 1850. Circleville, Ohio, United Brethren Publishing House, 1851.

Lawrence, J., History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. First edition, two vols., 1860-61. Last edition, two vols. in one, 1888.

Mittendorf, W., Kirchengeschichte der Vereinigten Bruder in Christo. (A translation of Lawrence's History.) 1871.

Spayth, H. G., History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Circleville, Ohio, United Brethren Publishing House, 1851.

2. Local.

Becker, H. J., History of the United Brethren Church in California. Sacramento, California.

Flickinger, D. K., and McKee, W., Ethiopia Coming to God; or, Missionary Life in Western Africa. Including a History of Sherbro and Other Missions of the United Brethren in Christ. Illustrated. 1885.

^p.652 VI. Biographies.

Davis, L., Life of Bishop David Edwards, D.D. 1883.

Drury, A. W., Life of Rev. Philip William Otterbein. 1884. — Life of Bishop J. J. Glossbrenner, D.D. 1889.

Newcomer, Christian, Life and Journal. Hagerstown, Maryland, F. G. W. Kapp, 1831.

Weaver, J., Philip William Otterbein. In Lives of the Leaders of the Church Universal, edited by F. Piper and H. M. MacCracken. 1879.

A brief biography of Philip William Otterbein may be found in nearly every cyclopedia, general, biographical, and religious, published in America.

VII. Doctrinal, Symbolical, Controversial, and Practical.

Bookwalter, L., The Family; or, The Home and the Training of Children. 1894.

Drury, A. W., The Revised Confession of Faith of the United Brethren in Christ. 1890.

Edwards, D., Youth's Scripture Compend. 1871.

Etter, J. W., The Preacher and His Sermon. A Treatise on Homiletics. 1883.— The Doctrine of Christian Baptism. 1888. — The Thorn in the Flesh. 1892.

Hoke, J., Holiness; or, The Higher Christian Life. Revised edition. 1872.

Hott, J. W., on Future Punishment. In That Unknown Country. Springfield, Massachusetts, C. A. Nichols & Co., 1889.

Lorenz, E. S., Getting Beady for a Revival. 1888.—(Editor), The Coming Revival. By Twelve Different Writers. 1887.

Shuey, W. J., and Flickinger, D. K., Discourses on Doctrinal and Practical Subjects. 1859.

Weaver, J. (Editor), Christian Doctrine. By Thirty-seven Different Writers. 1889. —(Author), Practical Comment on the Confession of Faith of the United Brethren Christ. 1892. — Discourses on the Resurrection. 1871. — Divine Providence. 1873. — The Doctrine of Universal Restoration Carefully Examined. 1878.

VIII. Hymnology.

Lanthurn, W. H., and Lorenz, E. S., Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship. Prepared by order of the General Conference of 1873, under the supervision of a committee consisting of Rev. W. H. Lanthurn, Rev. W. J. Shuey, S. E. Kumler, Rev. I. Baltzell, and Rev. D. Berger. 1874.

Lorenz, E. S., The Otterbein Hymnal. Prepared by order of the General Conference of 1889. Advisory committee, S. E. Kumler, C. H. Lyon, Mrs. A. B. Shauck, Judge J. A. Shauck, and Dr. J. P. Landis. 1890.

Lorenz, E. S., and Baltzell, Isaiah, separately and together have been the editors and authors of an extended list of music-books, chiefly for the Sunday school. For complete record, see Catalogue of the United Brethren Publishing House.

Rhinehart, W. R., The American Church Harp. 1856.

Rhinehart, W. R., and Erb, Jacob, Hymn-Book of the United Brethren in Christ. 1833.

Shuey, W. J., Hanby, William, and Chittenden, L. S., A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the United Brethren in Christ. Prepared by order of the General Conference of 1857. 1858.

Spayth, H. G., A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the United Brethren in Christ. Prepared by order of the General Conference of 1845. 1849.

For other publications of this class see p. 406 of this volume, the Manual of the United Brethren Publishing House, pp. 314-317, and the Catalogue of the United Brethren Publishing House.
 

¹All the books here mentioned, unless otherwise stated, are published by the United Brethren Publishing House.

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