Souvenir History of the New England Southern Conference


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It contains special historical sketches of the district, the campmeeting associations, the district Epworth League, the various social unions, and other organizations ; historical sketch of each church, with over four hundred engravings of churches, parsonages, pastors, pastors' wives, Sunday-school superintendents, Epworth League presidents, prominent laymen, etc.




Souvenir History of the New England Southern Conference, Vol. 1 of 3


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Excerpt from Souvenir History of the New England Southern Conference, Vol. 1 of 3: New Bedford District This History calls attention anew (as many a pastor has found in searching for historical data) to the very important Disciplinary ques tion, Are the records properly kept? Many cases have come under my observation where great and important church projects have been carried out, but not a line can be found in the church records concern ing them. Doubtless many a pastor will look in vain for some refer ence to a successful work done in a former charge - simply because the present pastor in preparing the historical sketch for this work found nothing on the records to indicate such a work. The pictures of distinguished Methodist ministers formerly mem bers of our Conference will be an interesting feature. More will ap pear in Volumes II. And III. We doubt if there is another such a Conference in Methodism that has furnished other Conferences with SO many of their ablest ministers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







Native Providence


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2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the twentieth century. Native Providence tells the stories of the city's Native residents at this historical moment and in the decades before and after, a time when European Americans claimed that Northeast Natives had mostly vanished. Denied their rightful place in modernity, men, women, and children from Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pequot, Wampanoag, and other ancestral communities traveled diverse and complicated routes to make their homes in this city. They found each other, carved out livelihoods, and created neighborhoods that became their urban homelands--new places of meaningful attachments. Accounts of individual lives and family histories emerge from historical and anthropological research in archives, government offices, historical societies, libraries, and museums and from community memories, geography, and landscape. Patricia E. Rubertone chronicles the survivance of the Native people who stayed, left, and returned, or lived in Providence briefly, who faced involuntary displacement by urban renewal, and who made their presence known in this city and in the wider Indigenous and settler-colonial worlds. Their everyday experiences reenvision Providence's past and illuminate documentary and spatial tactics of inequality that erased Native people from most nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history.




The Christian Advocate


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