Author: John C. Smith
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Reminiscences of Early Methodism in Indiana
Author: John C. Smith
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Contributions to the Early History of the Presbyterian Church in Indiana
Author: Hanford Abram Edson
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Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Pages : 290
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Fortune's Frenzy
Author: Eilene Lyon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149307007X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions…and gold dust. When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure, he sees gold as the answer to his financial woes. Joining a company of younger men, Jenkins and the other prospective miners sign fraudulent promissory notes to borrow from a ruthless businessman, Allen Makepeace, to reach the gold mines. They sail the risky route via Panama to the mines in 1851. But gold is not so easy to find by then. Making enough to survive and get home will be difficult; repaying Makepeace could be impossible. As Henry Jenkins becomes mired in mining, his wife, Abby, struggles to meet the needs of her large family amidst crop failures, waves of deadly disease, and harassment by Henry’s creditors. When Henry’s sons-in-law follow in his wake, they find themselves on a notorious death ship, stranded in the vast Pacific. Will any of these frantic men make it home to their distressed families? Fortune’s Frenzy reveals the plight of miners who borrowed at extortionate rates to get to California, and explores the dangerous and deadly sea routes to the west coast that killed roughly 10 percent of those who risked the journey. Alternating between the miners’ trials and terrors, and the challenges for the wives, children, and mothers left behind, Fortune’s Frenzy delves into the country’s pressing social, economic, and nationalist issues in the pre-Civil War decades. The theme is age-old, and still relevant: desperate people falling for get-rich-quick schemes. They fail to consider the sacrifices they will have to make and the dismal odds of their success.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149307007X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions…and gold dust. When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure, he sees gold as the answer to his financial woes. Joining a company of younger men, Jenkins and the other prospective miners sign fraudulent promissory notes to borrow from a ruthless businessman, Allen Makepeace, to reach the gold mines. They sail the risky route via Panama to the mines in 1851. But gold is not so easy to find by then. Making enough to survive and get home will be difficult; repaying Makepeace could be impossible. As Henry Jenkins becomes mired in mining, his wife, Abby, struggles to meet the needs of her large family amidst crop failures, waves of deadly disease, and harassment by Henry’s creditors. When Henry’s sons-in-law follow in his wake, they find themselves on a notorious death ship, stranded in the vast Pacific. Will any of these frantic men make it home to their distressed families? Fortune’s Frenzy reveals the plight of miners who borrowed at extortionate rates to get to California, and explores the dangerous and deadly sea routes to the west coast that killed roughly 10 percent of those who risked the journey. Alternating between the miners’ trials and terrors, and the challenges for the wives, children, and mothers left behind, Fortune’s Frenzy delves into the country’s pressing social, economic, and nationalist issues in the pre-Civil War decades. The theme is age-old, and still relevant: desperate people falling for get-rich-quick schemes. They fail to consider the sacrifices they will have to make and the dismal odds of their success.
Reminiscences of Early Methodism in Indiana
Author: John C. Smith
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266210443
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Excerpt from Reminiscences of Early Methodism in Indiana: Including Sketches of Various Prominent Ministers, Together With Narratives of Women Eminent for Piety, Poetry and Song The heroic age of the Methodist Episcopal Church is not ended. The fire still glows on her altars; zeal still flames in her heart. The men who traveled the primeval forests of the 'vest by blazed trees, forded or swam, as occasion required, the numerous and nu bridged streams, who often slept under the friendly woods, faring hard and working harder - these heroes of a rough time were the fathers of noble sons. If the sires were heroic, their children are not cowardly. If the fathers laid the foundations, their sons rear the superstructure. The sublime purpose which inaugu rated the Methodistic movement still.pushes the con quering march of her sacramental host. Her theology maintains its integrity; her worship retains its sim plicity her methods are more direct and efficient than those of any other church; her book Of, discipline makes no concession to popular sin. She stands as unshaken and unaltered among the Opinions and cus toms of these changeful times as Gibraltar in the midst of the changeful waters. She pushes her work in the centers of the Cities and on the farthest frontiers. Her missionary stations girdle the globe, and though her missionary contributions are very large, her zeal is so fiery that more missionaries than can be employed offer their services every year. It is not true that all the religious heroes are dead, and that all we can know of pious daring, of patient, Self-denying toil and of willing suffering, is in books of history and in epitaphs cut on monuments. Something of the old pathos quivers through this age, and some gleams of the old glory illumine it. To think otherwise would be to despair. 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.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266210443
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Excerpt from Reminiscences of Early Methodism in Indiana: Including Sketches of Various Prominent Ministers, Together With Narratives of Women Eminent for Piety, Poetry and Song The heroic age of the Methodist Episcopal Church is not ended. The fire still glows on her altars; zeal still flames in her heart. The men who traveled the primeval forests of the 'vest by blazed trees, forded or swam, as occasion required, the numerous and nu bridged streams, who often slept under the friendly woods, faring hard and working harder - these heroes of a rough time were the fathers of noble sons. If the sires were heroic, their children are not cowardly. If the fathers laid the foundations, their sons rear the superstructure. The sublime purpose which inaugu rated the Methodistic movement still.pushes the con quering march of her sacramental host. Her theology maintains its integrity; her worship retains its sim plicity her methods are more direct and efficient than those of any other church; her book Of, discipline makes no concession to popular sin. She stands as unshaken and unaltered among the Opinions and cus toms of these changeful times as Gibraltar in the midst of the changeful waters. She pushes her work in the centers of the Cities and on the farthest frontiers. Her missionary stations girdle the globe, and though her missionary contributions are very large, her zeal is so fiery that more missionaries than can be employed offer their services every year. It is not true that all the religious heroes are dead, and that all we can know of pious daring, of patient, Self-denying toil and of willing suffering, is in books of history and in epitaphs cut on monuments. Something of the old pathos quivers through this age, and some gleams of the old glory illumine it. To think otherwise would be to despair. 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.
The Indiana School Journal
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Indiana School Journal and Teacher
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Reminiscences of Early Methodism in Indiana
Author: John C. Smith
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ISBN: 9783337633653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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ISBN: 9783337633653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Religious Books, 1876-1982
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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Alphabetic Catalogue of the Indianapolis Public Library, 1885
Author: Indianapolis Public Library
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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