Very nice example of an important Civil War issue of the Methodist Doctrines and Discipline. It was 1864 of the Methodist Convention was specifically called out by Abraham Lincoln as being exemplary;
". . . it is no fault of others that the Methodist Church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospitals, more prayers to Heaven than any other [Christian movement.]"
Contains a revised statement of the Methodist Church on slavery in light of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Anonymous. The Doctrines of Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 1864. With an Appendix. Cincinnati. Published by Poe & Hitchcock. 1865. 303pp.
A good + copy, bound in cloth, generally solid, with moderate foxing.
