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  1. From slavery to a Bishopric, or, The life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church, Canada by S J. Celestine Edwards, 2010-08-20
  2. African Methodist Episcopal Church: African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Black church, British Methodist Episcopal Church, Christian Methodist Episcopal ... List of African Methodist Episcopal Churches
  3. The Doctrine and Discipline of the British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada; Revised and Published by Order of the General Conference Held by British Methodist Episcopal Church, 2010-01-03
  4. From Slavery To A Bishopric: Or The Life Of Bishop Walter Hawkins Of The British Methodist Episcopal Church, Canada (1891) by S. J. Celestine Edwards, 2010-09-10
  5. The doctrine and discipline of the British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada : revised and published by order of the General Conference held at North Buxton, September 5th to 12th, 1910 by British Methodist Episcopal Church, 2009-10-26
  6. The History of the Great Republic considered from a Christian stand-point ... With ... portraits. by Jesse T. Peck Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church., 2010-04-27
  7. The Great Republic, from the discovery of America to the Centennial, July 4, 1876. â?The History of the Great Republic considered from a Christian stand-point,â thoroughly revised, etc. by Jesse T. Peck Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church., 2010-04-27
  8. Pastor's visiting companion, diary and ritual: Arranged for and dedicated to the ministers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for the United States ... of Hayti, Africa and the British West Indies by C. T Shaffer, 1885
  9. Some of the many reasons for opposing the organic union of the A.M.E.C. and the B.M.E. Church by Daniel Alexander Payne, 1880
  10. Rambles through the British Isles by Richard Harcourt, 1870
  11. Autobiography of Rev. Alvin Torry: First missionary to the six nations and the northwestern tribes of British North America by Alvin Torry, 1864
  12. A sermon occasioned by the death of the late Rev. T. Coke, LL. D: Preached at Sheerness and Brompton, Kent by Samuel Woolmer, 1815
  13. The ancient British church;: Being an inquiry into the history of Christianity in Britain, previous to the establishment of the heptarchy, by William Lindsay Alexander, 1855

41. AMERICAN CHURCHES METHODIST, 17th-19TH C (US HISTORY) (e-Book, E
Edwards, SJ Celestine, From Slavery To a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop WalterHawkins of the british methodist episcopal Church C, Html, n/c, DocAmSout.
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42. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism
Dominion. The british methodist episcopal Church , which still maintainsa separate existence, has only coloured membership. It
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A religious movement which was originated in 1739 by John Wesley in the Anglican Church , and subsequently gave rise to numerous separate denominations. I. DOCTRINAL POSITION AND PECULIARITIES The fact that John Wesley and Methodism considered religion primarily as practical, not dogmatic, probably accounts for the absence of any formal Methodist creed. The "General Rules", issued by John and Charles Wesley on 1 May, 1743, stated the conditions of admission into the societies organized by them and known as the "United Societies". They bear an almost exclusively practical character, and require no doctrinal test of the candidates. Methodism, however, developed its own theological system as expressed in two principal standards of orthodoxy. The first is the "Twenty-five Articles" of religion. They are an abridgment and adaptation of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England , and form the only doctrinal standard strictly binding on American Methodists. Twenty-four of these articles were prepared by John Wesley for the Church in America and adopted at the Conference of Baltimore in 1784. The article which recognizes the political independence of the United States (Article XXIII) was added in 1804. The second standard is the first fifty-three of Wesley's published sermons and his "Notes on the New Testament". These writings were imposed by him on the British Methodists in his "Deed of Declaration" and accepted by the "Legal Hundred". The American Church, while not strictly bound to them, highly esteemed and extensively uses them.

43. Parks Canada - Parks Canada Agency
Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada Salem Chapel,british methodist episcopal Church National Historic Site of Canada St.
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of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada R. Nathaniel Dett BritishMethodist Episcopal Church National Historic Site of Canada Niagara Falls
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45. Oakville Museum At Erchless Estate - Black History Tours, Underground Railroad,
included African Americans from Oakville and Bronte, and united members of thebritish methodist episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal churches.
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The Turner African Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1891 and opened under Reverend William Roberts in 1892. The congregation included African Americans from Oakville and Bronte, and united members of the British Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal churches. The Church was named after Bishop Henry Turner, a well-known preacher and community worker, whom President Lincoln had named as the first African American Chaplain in the United States Armed Forces. As well as being an important religious centre, the Turner Chapel became a hub of social activity. The Church choirs were of a very high calibre, and often travelled on exchanges to other local churches. Revival meetings were well attended, operettas were organized and performed, and garden parties were held in the summer time. The congregation remained very active for nearly 100 years. Renovated in 1991, the Turner Chapel still stands today at 37 Lakeshore Road West, between Chisholm and Wilson Streets. photo courtesy of City of Toronto Archives
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47. Timeline
1856 british methodist episcopal Church (BME) of Canada, which would be composedof churches across Ontario and in Michigan and Indiana, is established from
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Since secrecy was crucial to the survival of the Underground Railroad freedom seekers, few facts were written down, and any personal journals that were kept were often destroyed. But by using a combination of folklore and historic fact, we can reconstruct the story of the Underground Railroad spanning three centuries. Portuguese explorers enslave fifty Amerindian men and women in Labrador or Newfoundland. Mathieu de Costa a "negro servant" to the Governor of Port Royal. Oliver Le Jeune is the first Black to appear in records as being brought directly from Africa and sold as a slave in New France. Upper Canada's first Legislature passed a law prohibiting the introduction of more slaves and for the gradual emancipation of slaves born after that date. First Fugitive Slave Law passed in the U.S. providing for the return of runaway slaves. British parliament abolishes slave trade. U.S. Congress passes law prohibiting importation of slaves. War of 1812 to 1814 between the U.S. and British. Companies of Coloured Soldiers fought in several battles. The Lieutenant Governor offers land in Oro area, Simcoe County to Black veterans of the War of 1812.

48. Sites & Plaques
Bishop Willis Nazery led many African Methodist Episcopal Congregations intoa new Canadianbased british methodist episcopal Church, a denomination
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The church was the heart and soul of every Black community. In 1848 the growing Underground Railroad community of Amherstburg completed the erection of the stone walls of a small chapel. With its hand-laid, fieldstone walls, this structure is an early and excellent example of the many small refugee churches found throughout Ontario. Bishop Willis Nazery led many African Methodist Episcopal Congregations into a new Canadian-based British Methodist Episcopal Church, a denomination established by Underground Railroad refugees so that they could govern their own church from their new homeland. 277 King Street, Amherstburg, Ontario
National Historic Site Photo courtesy of: The Nazrey African Methodist Episcopal Church Directions
From the Detroit/Windsor Tunnel:
When exiting the tunnel, turn left. Right onto the first street, Ouellette Avenue. At the end of Ouellette Ave. turn left onto Riverside Drive (runs into CR 20). Follow the Sadwich Ojibway Parkway. From the Ambassador Bridge:
Note: Always keep the Detroit River on the right-hand side. When exiting the bridge, follow the exit marked "To Downtown Windsor," which takes you to Riverside Drive. Follow CR 20 through to Amherstburg.

49. Church Founder Reverend Thomas Henry Miller
In the early 1850s he helped establish the british methodist episcopal (BME)Church in Owen Sound, Ontario, where many expaced slaves settled.
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Church founder Reverend Thomas Henry Miller was the U.S.- born son of a slave. In the early 1850s he helped establish the British Methodist Episcopal (BME) Church in Owen Sound, Ontario, where many expaced slaves settled.
Photo courtesy County of Grey Owen Sound Museum.

50. St. Catharines: The Heart Of Niagara - About St. Catharines
It begins at ‘The Crossing’, which is located along the Niagara River by historicFort Erie and ends at the BME (british methodist episcopal) Church/Salem
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St. Catharines’ first inhabitants were native people who settled along Dick’s Creek, a small tributary of Twelve Mile Creek that later became the route of the first Welland Canal. A trail was formed along the Creek´s crest and this trail later became St. Paul Street, the backbone of Downtown St. Catharines. At the end of the 18th Century, United Empire Loyalists settled in St. Catharines. The settlement became an agricultural community producing commercial crops and earning the label of ‘the fruit belt’. The area also produced large amounts of grain and lumber. Underground Railroad From the early 1820s, those escaping slavery in the United States followed the ‘North Star’ to find shelter behind Upper Canada´s humanitarian policies. Before long, the ‘Underground Railroad’ brought the first freedom seekers to Upper Canada. The ‘Underground Railroad’ and Niagara’s Freedom Trail was a network of people who hid and guided black slaves as they fled the U.S. and headed north to Canada to seek freedom. Follow the ‘Freedom Seeker’ signs and connect with history as you retrace the route they followed. It begins at ‘The Crossing’, which is located along the Niagara River by historic Fort Erie and ends at the B.M.E. (British Methodist Episcopal) Church/Salem Chapel in St. Catharines. This national historic site, the first of its kind in St. Catharines, through its association with the famed Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman, was an important place of abolitionist activity.

51. HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN C.1820-1913 - ONTARIO HERITAGE FOUNDATION
there until the end of March as part of the museum s Black History exhibit and thenwas installed on the grounds of the british methodist episcopal Church, 92
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PROVINCIAL PLAQUE IN ST CATHARINES COMMEMORATES HARRIET TUBMAN HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN c.1820-1913 A legendary conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman became known as the "Moses" of her people. Tubman was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation and suffered brutal treatment from numerous owners before escaping in 1849. Over the next decade she returned to the American South many times and led hundreds of freedom seekers north. When the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed slave owners to recapture runaways in the northern free states, Tubman extended her operations across the Canadian border. For eight years she lived in St Catharines, and at one point rented a house in this neighbourhood. With the outbreak of the Civil War, she returned to the U.S. to serve the Union Army. Historical Background (Photo:Ontario Black History
Society). The determination of Black men and women in the American South to liberate themselves from slavery and gain freedom for themselves and their children gave rise, early in the nineteenth century, to the Underground Railroad movement. This legendary "railroad" was a network of secret trails leading out of the southern states to safe locales in the northern free states, in Mexico and in Canada. Railway terms were used to confuse authorities and pursuers: "terminals" and "stations" referred to houses, barns and sheds where people could hide and rest; "station-keepers" were people who helped to feed and clothe travellers at these transfer points; "conductors" drove carts and wagons loaded with "cargo", or led people on foot along clandestine paths or "rail lines" at night from one terminal to the next. Members of the movement communicated with passwords, signals and coded messages.

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53. News
Zion, and the Christian methodist episcopal Church). In addition, there has beenongoing dialogue between the Church of England and the british methodist Church
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First ever Methodist-Episcopal dialogue meets in Atlanta
Tuesday, July 30, 2002 [Episcopal News Service] For the first time in the more than 200-year history of both churches, representatives of the United Methodist Church and the Episcopal Church met July 25-26, 2002, in Atlanta, Georgia. Bishop John Lipscomb of the Diocese of Southwest Florida and Methodist bishop William B. Oden of the Dallas Episcopal Area co-chaired the meeting.
Though both the United Methodist Church and the Episcopal Church were founding members of the Consultation on Church Union (now Churches Uniting in Christ), the two churches have never sat down in a formal bilateral dialogue. In the early 1990s the Episcopal Church had a brief dialogue with the historically black Methodist Churches (the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church Zion, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church).
In addition, there has been ongoing dialogue between the Church of England and the British Methodist Church. In 1972 these two churches came very close to reuniting. Most recently the Church of England approved a proposal to explore the possibility of covenanting with the British Methodist Church. In 1996, the International Anglican-Methodist dialogue produced the final statement 'Sharing in the Apostolic Communion,' submitted to the 1998 Lambeth Conference. It commended the report to Anglican provinces for further study and encouraged the development of regional dialogues between Methodists and Anglicans.

54. A History Of The Methodist Episcopal Church
methodist episcopal CHURCH. Dr. Coke considered; conference consents to his temporaryresidence in Europe; letter of Bishop Asbury to the british Conference; Dr
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A HISTORY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH By Nathan Bangs Volume II (Third Revised Edition, Published in 1853) BOOK IV From 1792 to 1812 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Methodism won its way; satisfaction in the doings of the conference of 1792; conferences and circuits; efforts to establish district schools; labors of Bishop Asbury; Methodism in New England; preachers withdrawn, dead, and located, numbers, conferences, and circuits; Methodism in the west; affliction and labors of Bishop Asbury; others labor and suffer with him; Methodism in Vermont and Maine; in New Hampshire; days of fasting and thanksgiving; locations and deaths of preachers; number of members and conferences; poisonous effects of infidelity; a fast proclaimed; thanksgiving; numbers; conferences attended by Bishop Asbury; his labor and sufferings; meets the classes in New York; Benjamin Abbott; his labors and their effects; his last public service; his death; his character; death of other preachers; of Judge White; numbers CHAPTER 2 Second General Conference; locations deprecated; chartered fund; church property; manner in, and purposes for which it is held; local preachers, rules for the government of rule respecting the use of ardent spirits; Dr. Coke offers his services to the conference, which were accepted; he returns to Europe; an incident of the voyage; conference adjourns. CHAPTER 3 Conferences and circuits; illness of Bishop Asbury; his labors and sufferings; further sufferings at Tuckehoe, N.Y.; not able to attend conferences, but appoints Jesse Lee in his place; death of preachers, and number in the church; people of color special object of attention; rebuilding of the Light street church; extension of the work in Western New York; numbers; death and character of John Dickins; deaths and locations; revival in Upper Canada;Calvin Wooster; good results of; his labors; others enter into the work; opposition to it; Methodism in Ohio; in Georgia and Mississippi; locations and deaths death and character of H. C. Wooster; numbers.

55. A History Of The Methodist Episcopal Church
its members; Bishop McKendree s address; delegates from british conference, affairs attendingthem; Tract Society of the methodist episcopal Church; beneficial
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A HISTORY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH By Nathan Bangs Volume III, Published in 1841 (From The Year 1816 To The Year 1828) CONTENTS NOTICE TO THE READER BOOK V CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 Conferences and manner of attending them; Tract Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; beneficial results; general work; character and death of Jesse Lee; character and death of Mr. Shadford; numbers; Methodist Magazine commenced; Asbury College; revivals in the Baltimore, New York, add New England conferences; in Upper Canada; camp meetings again in Kentucky; general superintendence; its effects; Bishop McKendree labors and suffers; locations and deaths of preachers and number of members; diminution of colored members, and its causes; origin of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1819; first constitution, officers and managers; their address; circular; auxiliary societies; Bishop McKendree's views; Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of Philadelphia; secession of colored members in New York; their present state and prospects; locations and deaths of preachers; numbers. CHAPTER 5 General Conference of 1820. Names and number of delegates; opening of conference by Bishop McKendree, and address of the bishops; provision for Bishop McKendree; cause of education; report of committee commending the establishment of seminaries of learning; opposition to this cause; Canada affairs; letter from London; address to the Wesleyan Methodist conference; its answer; resolutions of the British conference on Canada affairs; instructions from our bishops; to the brethren in Lower Canada; result of these proceedings; improved edition of the Hymn Book; Tune Book; revised; building churches; new regulation respecting local preachers; did not work well; finally abrogated; report on missions; revised constitution; rule for conducting appeals; a branch of the Book Concern established at Cincinnati.

56. Methodism - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The three major streams of british Methodism united in 1933 to form the consecratedby Wesley, he and other leaders formed the methodist episcopal Church in
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(Redirected from Methodist The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity Table of contents 1 The Wesleyan revival 2 Separation from the Church of England 3 Theology and liturgy 4 The Methodist Church in Britain ... edit
The Wesleyan revival
The Methodist revival originated in England . It was started by John Wesley , his younger brother Charles and George Whitefield as a movement within the Church of England in the 18th century , focused on Bible study, and a methodical approach to scriptures . The term "Methodist" was a pejorative college nickname that was bestowed upon a small society of students at Oxford , who met together between 1729 and 1735 for the purpose of mutual improvement. They were accustomed to communicate every week, to fast regularly and to abstain from most forms of amusement and luxury. They also frequently visited poor and sick persons and prisoners in the gaol. The early Methodists reacted against the apathy of the Church of England , became open-air preachers and established Methodist societies wherever they went. They were notorious for their enthusiastic sermons and often accused of fanaticism . In those days, members of the established church feared that the powerful new doctrines promulgated by the Methodists, such as the necessity to

57. MSN Encarta - Methodism
methodist Protestant Church, and the methodist episcopal Church, South methodist churchesin other countries generally stem from either the british or the
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58. MSN Encarta - Search View - Methodism
system was adopted in the methodist episcopal Church, and the basic structure ofthe United methodist Church. Within both british and American Methodism, two
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The search seeks the exact word or phrase that you type, so if you don’t find your choice, try searching for a key word in your topic or recheck the spelling of a word or name. Methodism I. Introduction Methodism , worldwide Protestant movement dating from 1729, when a group of students at the University of Oxford, England, began to assemble for worship, study, and Christian service. Their fellow students named them the Holy Club and “methodists,” a derisive allusion to the methodical manner in which they performed the various practices that their sense of Christian duty and church ritual required. II. The Wesleys Among the Oxford group were John Wesley, considered the founder of Methodism, and his brother Charles, the sons of an Anglican rector. John preached, and Charles wrote hymns. Together they brought about a spiritual revolution, which some historians believe diverted England from political revolution in the late 18th century. The theology of the Wesleys leaned heavily on Arminianism and rejected the Calvinist emphasis on predestination; ( see Calvinism). Preaching the doctrines of Christian perfection and personal salvation through faith, John Wesley quickly won an enthusiastic following among the English working classes, for whom the formalism of the established Church of England had little appeal.

59. United Methodist Church
Therefore in 1784, at Baltimore, the methodist episcopal Church was establishedwhile british methodists remained part of the Anglican Church.
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Doctrines The essential doctrines of the United Methodist Church are derived from the broader Methodist tradition from which it emerged. The Twenty Five Articles of Religion, adapted by John Wesley from the Anglican articles to emphasise Arminian doctrines, remain the foundations of American Methodist doctrine. They were to become the basis for the British Methodist churches as well. Today the church tends not to stress Wesley's ideas of Christian perfectionism and is dominated by liberal theology. History (Also see African Methodist Episcopal Church
The success of Methodism was tempered by disagreements over church organisation. Ashbury, while extremely hardworking, was authoritarian and antagonised members who wanted a looser organisation. Thus in 1827 dissenters formed the Methodist Protestant Church and adopted a congregational organisation. A worse split was caused by the increasing commitment of Northern Methodists to the abolition of slavery, a institution which Southern Methodists regarded as essential and justified by scripture. Bitter arguments resulted in the formation the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1845. After the civil war the Methodist churches became increasingly formalised and conservative and this resulted in the formation of the "Holiness" movement which aimed at emphasising Wesley's ideas on Christian perfectionism. This lead to the division of the Methodists into holiness and antiholiness camps and to several schisms (see

60. Methodist
from the british methodist revival movement led by John Wesley that was taken tothe American colonies in the 1760s. The autonomous methodist episcopal Church
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Methodist Our History In 1729 in England, a small group of Oxford University students were ridiculed as "Bible Bigots, " the "Holy Club" and "Methodists" because they spent so much time in methodical prayer and Bible reading. Led by John and Charles Wesley, the students held their ground against jeering students and went out to preach and pray with those considered to be the underbelly of English society. The United Methodist Church is the result of the 1939 merger of three Methodist bodies (Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal South and Methodist Protestant churches), and a 1968 union of the Evangelical United Brethren and The Methodist churches. United Methodist (Encyclopaedia Britannica) United Methodist Church in the United States, a major Protestant church formed in 1968 in Dallas, Texas, by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church. It developed from the British Methodist revival movement led by John Wesley that was taken to the American colonies in the 1760s. The autonomous Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1784 in Baltimore, Md., with Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury as superintendents (later called bishops). The church grew rapidly, but various schisms developed. In 1830 a dissenting group organized the Methodist Protestant Church, a nonepiscopal church. The slavery question caused a larger disruption, and in 1845 in Louisville, Ky., southern Methodists organized the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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