The Doctrines And Discipline Of The Methodist Episcopal Church

This is a small format leatherbound book (full leather) with gilt lettering and decorations to the spine and gilt rules and decoration to the front and rear covers. The book is in Very Good condition. All edges of the book covers have rubbing and edge Wear. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. The front endpaper also has some edge chipping. "The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, or Methodist Episcopal Church South (MEC, S) , was the Methodist denomination resulting from the 19th-century split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). Disagreement on this issue had been increasing in strength for decades between churches of the North and South; in 1844 it resulted in a schism at the General Conference of the MEC held in Louisville, Kentucky. This body maintained its own polity for nearly 100 years. It did not reunite with the elder Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church (earlier separated from Methodist Episcopals in 1828) until 1939, then formed the Methodist Church. The national denomination merged in 1968 with the Evangelical United Brethren Church, to form the United Methodist Church, now one of the largest and most widely spread religious denominations in America." (from Wikipedia).