JAMES E. KIRBY is Professor of Church History at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology. His interests are in the history of Methodism and the American 19th century. He is currently working on a biography of Bishop William C. Martin, President of the National Council of Churches in 1952.RUSSELL E. RICHEY is Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Professor of Church History at The Divinity School at Duke University. His most recent books include Early American Methodism (1991) and Reimagining Denominationalism (1994).KENNETH E. ROWE is Professor of Church History at Drew University Theological School and Librarian of the United Methodist Archives and History Center. He is the author of United Methodist Studies: Basic Bibliographies (1992), of the multi-volume Methodist Union Catalog (1975 -) and editor with Richey of Perspectives on American Methodism (1993).

• Series Foreword Introduction Bishops America Episcopacy Constitutional Methodism Two Patterns of Episcopacy Conference The Methodist Conference General Conference: A Continental Order Conference Politicized Fratricide Formalization Pluralism Members Making Moral Christians and Loyal Methodists Class Meeting and Sunday School, 1816-1866 Sunday School for All, 1866-1915 From Class Meeting to Probationer's Class, 1866-1915 The Sunday School Renaissance, 1915-1935 Making Methodist Disciples, 1939-1968 Abbreviations Used in This Volume A Chronology of American Methodism Bibliographical Essay Index

JAMES E. KIRBY is Professor of Church History at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology. His interests are in the history of Methodism and the American 19th century. He is currently working on a biography of Bishop William C. Martin, President of the National Council of Churches in 1952.RUSSELL E. RICHEY is Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Professor of Church History at The Divinity School at Duke University. His most recent books include Early American Methodism (1991) and Reimagining Denominationalism (1994).KENNETH E. ROWE is Professor of Church History at Drew University Theological School and Librarian of the United Methodist Archives and History Center. He is the author of United Methodist Studies: Basic Bibliographies (1992), of the multi-volume Methodist Union Catalog (1975 -) and editor with Richey of Perspectives on American Methodism (1993).

• Series Foreword Introduction Bishops America Episcopacy Constitutional Methodism Two Patterns of Episcopacy Conference The Methodist Conference General Conference: A Continental Order Conference Politicized Fratricide Formalization Pluralism Members Making Moral Christians and Loyal Methodists Class Meeting and Sunday School, 1816-1866 Sunday School for All, 1866-1915 From Class Meeting to Probationer's Class, 1866-1915 The Sunday School Renaissance, 1915-1935 Making Methodist Disciples, 1939-1968 Abbreviations Used in This Volume A Chronology of American Methodism Bibliographical Essay Index

JAMES E. KIRBY is Professor of Church History at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology. His interests are in the history of Methodism and the American 19th century. He is currently working on a biography of Bishop William C. Martin, President of the National Council of Churches in 1952.RUSSELL E. RICHEY is Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Professor of Church History at The Divinity School at Duke University. His most recent books include Early American Methodism (1991) and Reimagining Denominationalism (1994).KENNETH E. ROWE is Professor of Church History at Drew University Theological School and Librarian of the United Methodist Archives and History Center. He is the author of United Methodist Studies: Basic Bibliographies (1992), of the multi-volume Methodist Union Catalog (1975 -) and editor with Richey of Perspectives on American Methodism (1993).

• Series Foreword Introduction Bishops America Episcopacy Constitutional Methodism Two Patterns of Episcopacy Conference The Methodist Conference General Conference: A Continental Order Conference Politicized Fratricide Formalization Pluralism Members Making Moral Christians and Loyal Methodists Class Meeting and Sunday School, 1816-1866 Sunday School for All, 1866-1915 From Class Meeting to Probationer's Class, 1866-1915 The Sunday School Renaissance, 1915-1935 Making Methodist Disciples, 1939-1968 Abbreviations Used in This Volume A Chronology of American Methodism Bibliographical Essay Index