April 12, 2024
METHODIST HYMN BOOK - WESLEYAN METHODIST PROTESTANT MERGER EXTREMELY RARE
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THE VOICE OF PRAISE; A COLLECTION OF HYMNS FOR THE USE OF THE METHODIST CHURCH. COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE. PITTSBURGH JAS. ROBISON, PUBLISHING AGENT, 1875.THIS BOOK CAN BE CALLED EXTREMELY RARE BECAUSE IT IS NOT A METHODIST EPISCOPAL HYMNAL, NOR A METHODIST EPISCOPAL SOUTH HYMNAL, BUT A HYMNAL OF THE METHODIST CHURCH. IN CASE PERSONS DON'T RECOGNIZE THE "THE METHODIST CHURCH" OF THAT TIME IT WAS THE MERGER OF ABOUT HALF OF THE METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH AND THE WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH. UNLIKE THE M.E. CHURCHES WHO SPLIT IN 1844 OVER SLAVERY, THE METHODIST PROTESTANTS HUNG TOGETHER UNTIL THEY AGREED (MORE OR LESS) TO AN AMIABLE SEPARATION. THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCES WERE SEPARATE AND THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN CONFERENCES WERE SEPARATE. THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN CONFERENCES FELT THEY HAD MUCH IN COMMON WITH THE WESLEYAN METHODISTS AND SO THEY DID A MERGER. AT THEIR GENERAL CONFERENCE IN 1867 THESE AUTHORIZED THIS HYMNAL. THE HYMNAL ITSELF IS ORGANIZED RATHER STRANGELY WITH A TRINITARIAN FRAMEWORK BUT WITH A LOT OF HYMNS ORGANIZED BY GENERAL TOPICS. THERE IS STILL A LOT OF WESLEY AND THE TRADITIONAL METHODIST HYMNS.THE METHODIST PROTESTANT AND WESLEYAN MERGER WAS FAIRLY SHORT LIVED. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR THE METHODIST PROTESTANTS IN THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCES WISHED TO BE UNITED AGAIN WITH THEIR FORMER
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