Description

Rare antique book. THE LIFE OF REV JOHN EMORY BISHOP METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ANTIQUE OLD BOOK book includes Three books in one. THE LIFE OF THE REV JOHN EMORY D.D One of the BISHOPs of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH . by His Eldest Son. with an appendix. published by Carlton & Phillips 200 Mulberry street New York, 1855. entered according to act of Congress in the year 1841, by George Lane. 380 pages THE EPISCOPAL CONTROVERSY REVIEWED by JOHN EMORY., Edited by his son, from an unfinished manuscript. Published by G. Lane & c.b. Tippett. 1845. 183 pages. A DEFENCE OF "OUR FATHERS" and of the Original Organization of THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Against THE REV. ALEXANDER M'CAINE and others: With Historical and Critical Notices of Early American Methodism. by JOHN EMORY. published by Carlton & Phillips, 1856. 154 pages. also some advertising pages for other books in back pages are in mostly very good condition, with some yellowing/tanning,mostly around margin areas. a few pages are age toned quite a bit, maybe a different type of paper ? frontispiece illustration/title page have lot of yellowing, spots. other pages some spots here and there. a few notations,markings in text. a previous owners signature on title page and on endpaper with inscription " Collins ? Colliers ? Dewey ? bought in New York second hand. May 15, 1928 Paid .15c" looks like there might be a page missing between the index of Life of Bishop Emory and the title page of The Episcopal controvery. The last entry of the index is Wesleyan Repository, I dont know if there was another index page or maybe an illustration or blank page beginning the next. there is the remains of a piece of paper, like one was torn out ??Leather cover in POOR CONDITION, front and back covers are dettached. leather has scuffing/scratches/worn/wear. John Emory (11 April 1789 – 1835) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832 John was born at Spaniard's Neck, Queen Annes's County, Maryland. His parents were Methodists, his father a jurist who designed him for the law. His mother, however, who had been converted under Garrettson, devoted John at birth to the ministry. His eldest son Robert, born in 1814, became a professor of Latin and Greek at Dickinson College in 1836 and later its president. In 1841 he published a biography of his father, Life of the Rev. John Emory . He was educated by tutors at Easton, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. He experienced "saving grace" at a Quarterly Meeting in 1806. He studied law in 1805 in the office of Judge R.T. Earle,Centreville, Maryland, and was admitted to the bar in 1808. But his attention soon turned to the pulpit, against his father's protests, and he entered the Traveling Ministry of the Philadelphia Annual Conference of the M.E. Church in 1810. Emory became well known, and his services were much in demand throughout the Middle States. He was elected a Member of the General Conference of 1816, and then to each succeeding General Conference (with one exception) through 1832 (when he was elected to the Episcopacy). He was sent as a delegate to the British Wesleyan conference in 1820. He was appointed Book Agent and Editor for the M.E. Church in 1824, with offices in New York City. While a bishop, he continued his interest in the Book Concern, and during his management thereof was successful in paying-off all its debts, returning it to a solid foundation. Emory United Methodist Church in New Oxford, PA, erected in 1887, was named for him after he helped to establish the Emory Sunday School during the church's early years - between 1832 and 1835. pantry