plete and thorough presentation of the Reformer's case ever presented. Though written therefore; with a bias, it is a great and enduring achievement in American Church historiography.

There is no history of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America (1843). The best brief account is Wardner and Bruce's article in McClintock and Strong, Cyclopædia, suppl. vol., ii, 1075-6.

For the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, see Redford, Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Nashville, 1871; Myers, The Disruption of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ib., 1875; and Gross Alexander, History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in American Church History Series, vol., N. Y., 1894. The elaborate work of Elliott, The Great Secession, Cincinnati, 1855, gives seventyeight documents in the appendix.

For the Slavery struggle see the books just mentioned, also Elliott, Sinfulness of

American Slavery, Cincinnati, 2 vols., 1863; Matlock, Anti-Slavery Struggle and Triumph in the Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, 1881.

For territorial growth, besides the minutes of the Annual Conferences, Journals of the General Conference, Reports of the Missionary Society, biographies of noted workers in home and foreign lands, William Taylor's books, Histories of Missions such as Reid's rev. new ed. 3 vols., 1895-6, 3 Histories of Conferences, see Histories of Methodism in Minnesota by Hobart, RedWing, 1887; in Ohio by Barker, New York, 1898; in Wisconsin by Bennett and Lawson, Cincinnati, 1890; in the southwest by Elliott, Cincinnati, 1868; in Indiana by W. C. Smith (Indiana Miscellany), Cincinnati, 1867, and by J. C. Smith (Reminiscences of Early Methodism in Indiana), Indianapolis, 1879; in Kentucky by Redford, Nashville, 3 vols., 1868-70; in Illinois (Rock River Conference) by Field, Cincinnati, 1896; in

Northwestern Pennsylvania and Southern Central New York (Wyoming Conference) by A. F. Chaffee, New York, 1904.

For the African Churches see Tanner, The Apology for African Methodism, Baltimore, 1867; Moore, History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, York, Pa., 1884; etc.

On special topics the books are legion, as e. g., Cummings, Early Schools of Methodism, New York, 1886; Wheeler, Methodism and the Temperance Reform, Cincinnati and New York, 1882; etc.

For Canada see Thos. Webster, History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, Hamilton, 1858, new ed., 1870; Playter, History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, Vol. I, Toronto, 1862; Carroll, Case and his Contemporaries, ib., 1867; T. Watson Smith, History of Methodism in Eastern British America, 2 vols., Halifax, 1877, 1890; Cornish, Cyclopedia of Methodism in Canada, 2 vols., Toronto,

1881, 1904; Ryerson, Story of My Life, ib., 1884; various authors, Centennial of Canadian Methodism, ib., 1891. There are lives of William Black by Richey, Halifax, 1839, and by his descendant Wm. A. Black, of Sheldon, Iowa, 1903.

Index

ABBOTT, BENJAMIN, 135.

African Methodist Episcopal Church, 175.

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 176.
African Union Methodist Protestant Church, 175–6.
Allen, Richard, a founder, 175.

Allegheny College, 219.

American University, 222.

Asbury, Francis, in hiding, 62; appointed as superin-
tendent, 68, 76; confirmed as superintendent by
Wesley, 78; salary, 79; requests Wesley to pro-
vide church government, 82; Little's description of,

120.

Asbury College, Baltimore, 214.

Augusta College (1822), 215-6.
Australia, 226.

BALTIMORE, conference of, 1776, 63; of 1780, 71;

Lovely Lane Chapel, 64.

Bermuda, history of Methodism in, 187.

Bewley, the martyr, 153.

Bethel Academy, Ky. (1794), 208.

Bethel Academy, S. C. (1795), 213.

Bibliography, select, 250.

Bishop, Abraham John, apostle of New Brunswick, 185.

Bishops, Wesley's idea of, 97.

Black, William, apostle of Nova Scotia, 180.

Boardman, Richard, 50, 115.

Book Concern, beginning of, 58, 212.

Boston University School of Theology, 221.

Boxer Rebellion of 1900, 240.

Butler, Wm., his work in India, 242.