Comments on: Southwestern States Mission: Interactions with African Americans, Part 1

By: Edje Jeter

Edje Jeter — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:47:52 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Margaret, Amy, Ardis, and Christopher.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:12:47 +0000

Thanks, Ed. This is really fascinating stuff.

Amy, on “shouting Methodists,” see chapter three of Ann Taves’s Fits, Trances, and Visions.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:53:37 +0000

Excellent demonstration of reading between the lines. Or of stepping into your historical subjects’ shoes. Or however you want to describe your extracting of meaning from the slight clues available. Thanks, Edje.

By: Amy T

Amy T — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:18:01 +0000

A shouting Methodist? I hadn’t been familiar with that term.

“They are despised by Satan’s train,
Because they shout and preach so plain.
I’m bound to march in endless bliss,
And die a shouting Methodist.”

(Shouting Methodists.)

By: Margaret Blair Young

Margaret Blair Young — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:41:17 +0000

Fascinating, Edje! Thank you!