Author: George W. HenryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Trials and Triumphs ... in the Life of G. W. Henry ... Together with the Religious Experience of His Wife, to which are Added One Hundred Spiritual Songs, with Music
Author: George W. HenryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Trials and Triumphs (for Half a Century) in the Life of G.W. Henry
Author: George W. HenryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evangelists
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Trials and Triumphs for Three-score Years and Ten in the Life of G.W. Henry ...
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Author: Methodism in the American Forest
Author: Russell E. RicheyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199359636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Saddleback Selection Award from the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic outreach. Methodism in the American Forest explores the ways in which Methodist preachers interacted with and utilized the American woodland, and the role camp meetings played in the denomination's spread across the country. Half a century before they made themselves such a home in the woods, the people and preachers learned the hard way that only a fool would adhere to John Wesley's mandate for preaching in fields of the New World. Under the blazing American sun, Methodist preachers sought and found a better outdoor sanctuary for large gatherings: under the shade of great oaks, a natural cathedral where they held forth with fervid sermons. The American forests, argues Russell E. Richey, served the preachers in several important ways. Like a kind of Gethesemane, the remote, garden-like solitude provided them with a place to seek counsel from the Holy Spirit. They also saw the forest as a desolate wilderness, and a means for them to connect with Israel's years after the Exodus and Jesus's forty days in the desert after his baptism by John. The dauntless preachers slashed their way through, following America's expanding settlement, and gradually sacralizing American woodlands as cathedral, confessional, and spiritual challenge-as shady grove, as garden, and as wilderness. The threefold forest experience became a Methodist standard. The meeting of Methodism's basic governing body, the quarterly conference, brought together leadership of all levels. The event stretched to two days in length and soon great crowds were drawn by the preaching and eventually the sacraments that were on offer. Camp meetings, if not a Methodist invention, became the movement's signature, a development that Richey tracks throughout the years that Methodism matured, to become a central denomination in America's religious landscape.
Shouting
Author: George W. HenryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enthusiasm
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
War Is All Hell
Author: Edward J. BlumPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812253043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"An examination of how Americans brought concepts of the devil, demons, and hell into every fabric of their lives and times in the American Civil War. These influences continued to impact the nation and its people after the war"--
Close Harmony
Author: James R. Goff Jr.Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469616882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Close Harmony traces the development of the music known as southern gospel from its antebellum origins to its twentieth-century emergence as a vibrant musical industry driven by the world of radio, television, recordings, and concert promotions. Marked by smooth, tight harmonies and a lyrical focus on the message of Christian salvation, southern gospel--particularly the white gospel quartet tradition--had its roots in nineteenth-century shape-note singing. The spread of white gospel music is intricately connected to the people who based their livelihoods on it, and Close Harmony is filled with the stories of artists and groups such as Frank Stamps, the Chuck Wagon Gang, the Blackwood Brothers, the Rangers, the Swanee River Boys, the Statesmen, and the Oak Ridge Boys. The book also explores changing relations between black and white artists and shows how, following the civil rights movement, white gospel was influenced by black gospel, bluegrass, rock, metal, and, later, rap. With Christian music sales topping the $600 million mark at the close of the twentieth century, Close Harmony explores the history of an important and influential segment of the thriving gospel industry.
Tell Tale Rag
Author: George W. HenryTell Tale Rag, and Popular Sins of the Day ...
Author: George W. HenryPublisher:
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description