Semi-centenary and the Retrospection of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1866 Sherwood & Co Edition) (Q8007)
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1866 edition printed by Sherwood & Co
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Semi-centenary and the Retrospection of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1866 Sherwood & Co Edition) |
1866 edition printed by Sherwood & Co |
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The | Semi-centenary and the Retrospection | of the | African Methodist Episcopal Church | in the | United States of America. | By | Daniel A. Payne, | One of the Bishops and Historiographer of the | A.M.E. Church.
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Printed by Sherwood & Co. | N.W. Cor. Baltimore and Gay Streets. | Baltimore, 1866.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1866, By Daniel A. Payne, In The Clerks Office of the District Court of Maryland
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DEDICATION.To Revs. William Sholl, A. M., William Herlig, A. M., Samuel Sprecher,D. D., Charles Martin, M. D., Jacob C. Duy, ChristianStartzman, DanielKohler, Jacob Sheler, Jacob Ziegler, Leonhard Gerhardt, Charles F. Stoever,A. M., Theophilus Stork, D. D., David F. Biddle, D. D., J. S. Williams, John George Ellinger, Samuel Wagner, David Smith, Emanuel Frey, A. M., Christian Lepley, F. W. Conrad
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John McCron, D. D., and John Wilcox, all Alumni of the Theological Seminary of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, Pa., and members of "The Society of Inquiry on Missions," at that school, who, in the Spring of 1835, so generously resolved to educate a colored young man for the work of the Christian ministry
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in order that he might labor for the intellectual, moral and religious improvement of the Colored People of the United States, and who chose " me, who am less than the least of all saints,"—feeding, clothing and educating me, till I was measurably prepared for the work assigned me;
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To you, Gentlemen,I dedicate this little book, the first product of my literary labors, which is likely to attract the notice of Philanthropists and Christians, not on account of any literary merit which it possesses, but in view of the important questions which it answers, and the exalted ends at which it aims.
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189 pages
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