artificial aid as that of a prayer-book. Not unfrequently these services were, especially in former days, enlivened by shouts of praise and loud demonstrations of joy. Yet everything that savors of disorder or fanaticism has been persistently frowned upon and suppressed. Mr. Albright himself was particularly averse to what the fathers called "wild-fire," or fanatical excesses.

The members of the Evangelical Association are expected, as a consequence of a deep experience in God and the exercise of a truly spiritual worship, to demonstrate the reality of their religious character and experience by a holy life. Conformity to the world in social customs, in commercial practice, and in personal conduct has always been denounced as inconsistent with the high standard of religious experience. The life of our people, therefore, has been characterized by great simplicity and freedom from lofty social pretense. The weapons of their warfare are not carnal, but mighty to the pulling down of strongholds. As a basis of this high moral standard our people have been constantly urged to seek entire sanctification and Christian perfection, so that they might walk worthy of their high and holy calling.

These three things, sound conversion, spiritual worship, and holy living, are essential features of a true church, and it has been the aim of the Evangelical Association to constitute such a church.

Lastly, the Evangelical Association has been actuated by the spirit of apostolic evangelism. Ecclesiasticism has not been in our plan. The genius of our church is to be evangelical in doctrine, evangelistic in method, connectional in polity. It is distinctively a missionary church, always pushing out into the regions beyond. Its mission to the world is to preach the living gospel by a living ministry, to send out converted men to bring the world

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Her mission to the churches is the infusion of vital godliness, the quickening of spiritual life everywhere by a ministry converted, sanctified, and called of God. She has not been an ecclesiastical parasite, living upon others. The Evangelical Association has always hewn her own marble in the rough. Her ministry has always been more concerned to save the people for Christ than to proselyte them for the church.

In this path, marked out by her revered founder, let her continue. Let it be her object to be a communion of truly converted, spiritually quickened souls, united together for mutual edification among themselves, and for aggressive evangelism in the world. So will she bring many sons unto glory, and be a mighty factor in the universal conquest of the world for Christ the Lord.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY,

1820-1893.

COMPILED BY

SAMUEL MACAULEY JACKSON

HONORARY DOCTor of Laws (Washington and Lee University, Va., 1892), AND OF DIVINITY (UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 1893).

PREFATORY NOTE.

As this is the first attempt ever made to put together the titles of the books upon the general subject of religious history in the United States which have appeared in this country since 1820, it leaves much to be desired. The main sources are: the Roorbach and Kelly Catalogues of American books (Bibliotheca Americana, New York, 1820-61, 4 vols.; American Catalogue, 186171, 2 vols.), and their successor the American Catalogue, 1876 sqq., which is now the best trade catalogue published; the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum; and the various bibliographies already given or to be printed in this series. It has been the labor of months to bring together the materials these sources furnished. The Roorbach and Kelly lists are notoriously defective and inaccurate. Hence any use of them must share these blemishes. Great care has been taken to secure accuracy by comparison of lists and special searches in biographical dictionaries, especially in Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, edited by Gen. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, which is remarkably full and on the whole satisfactory. The British Museum Catalogue is simply indispensable, and has supplied information when every other source failed. Comparison of the titles here given with those in Roorbach and Kelly will show how much correction has been made.

This Bibliography does not pretend to be more than a compilation, but it aims at giving this information: short titles of all the books which properly fall within its scope; author's surname, initials, place of publication, name of publisher, date, number of volumes, size, and price. Wherever any of these items is missing it is because the compiler had sought in vain for it. The titles are given both by subject and author; usually but not always with equal fullness. There are also a few cross-references where these seemed desirable. Honorary degrees are ignored, but where "Rev." appears in the previously printed lists in the trade catalogues, it is allowed to stand. It should be remarked that the compiler read the catalogues and marked what titles should be copied, and did all the editorial work upon them, but the mechanical labor of copying was done principally by his assistant, Mr. Clemens Petersen.

May 10, 1894.

SAMUEL MACAULEY JACKSON.