TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Introduction

Beginnings of the UBs

1825-1839

1840-1849

1850-1859

1860-1869

1870-1879

1880-1887

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History of the Sandusky Conference

by W. M. Mathers

INTRODUCTION

The idea of writing a brief history of the Sandusky Conference did not originate with the author. A number of brethren have long felt that such a work was a positive necessity to enable the church of the present to review the ground over which the Conference has passed since its first organization, as the connecting links of the past with the present, are fast dropping out. Brethren at different times were appointed to perform this task, and if they would have undertaken the work we might have had something much better and more worthy of being preserved, and the author of this little book saved the time and labor of its preparation.

At a Ministerial Association, held on the Findlay District, I was appointed by the Association to write some reminiscences of Sandusky Conference. Not being present, I misapprehended their intentions and wrote what I supposed to be the thought of the Association, and read the paper at an Association held at Bethlehem, in the spring of 1887. The production met the approval of the Association, as to quality, but not as to quantity. I was requested to re-write and enlarge with the view of putting it in ^p3 some permanent form to be preserved by those upon whom the burdens of the church must rest when the Fathers shall have passed to their reward. This I was unwilling to do, not that I believed such a work would not be interesting and useful, but because I felt myself incompetent to write anything that would command the respect of the present enlightened age. At an Association of the Sandusky District held at Chicago Junction, the request was renewed. It was thought that a connection with the Church and Conference for forty-six years, gave me opportunities for writing that few possessed. After mature deliberation, I yielded to the wishes of brethren whose judgment I thought worthy of respect, and now give to the church what I trust will prove to them instructive, and result in glorifying God. It is not claimed that all by whose instrumentality, ministerial abilities and usefulness, the conference has been brought up to its present state of prosperity and usefulness have been noticed; to have done this would have increased it beyond its intended size without increasing its real value.

Having been prompted by no other motives, as I verily believe, than the glory of God, I ask every reader to overlook its many imperfections, and read with that Christian charity which characterizes the life of every genuine Christian.

W. M.

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