Semi-Centennial Exercises Memorials of Methodism in Macon, Georgia From 1828 to 1878

[Held at Mulberry Street Church December 5th to 8th, 1878]

It is not often that one is allowed to glimpse the historical past from a perspective that is also historical, but that is the opportunity afforded with this small volume.  It tracks every facet of Methodism in Macon, Georgia, from its beginning and delivers it in summary fashion from a fifty year vantage point.

Called Memorials of Methodism in Macon, GA, this work was, no doubt, the brain-child of the noted historian, George Gilman Smith, and publisher, John W. Burke, though it did mark well the occasion of the semi-centennial exercises of Methodism held at Mulberry Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South.  Those exercises began on the evening of December 4th, 1878, at the church.  The occasion had been contemplated as early as October when a group of pastors and educators in Macon felt that the Semi-Centennial ought to be celebrated.  A committee had been duly appointed, and the prayer meeting was the first fruit of that effort.  

The orations and addresses continued from Thursday, December 5th through Sunday evening, December 8th, and are remarkably preserved in what can only be termed the best source of information extant on Macon's first Methodist congregations and preachers.  Records at that time went only as far back as 1851, yet this publication fills in most of the gaps regarding the early churches called Mulberry Street, First Street, East Macon and Jones Chapel.

Harold Lawrence

(?), 2001, 5.5" x 8.5", Paper, 98 pp.

ISBN:  9781890307361

101-L0736