TROY

CONFERENCE MISCELLANY,

CONTAINING A

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF METHODISM

WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF THE TROY CONFERENCE OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

WITH

REMINISCENCES OF ITS DECEASED,

AND

CONTRIBUTIONS BY ITS LIVING MINISTERS.

WITH AN APPENDIX.

BY REV. STEPHEN PARKS.

ALBANY:

J. LORD, PHILIP STREET.
TROY: W. H. YOUNG.

BURLINGTON: S. HUNTINGTON.
1854.

WM

259796

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1854,

BY STEPHEN PARKS,

In the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York.

ALBANY :

J. MUNSELL, PRINTER.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

From Rev. Abel Stevens, Editor of the National Magazine.

“It can not be other than an interesting collection to the Trey Conference, and to many others in whose hearts the names of Levings, Carpenter, Schiefest, Sher. Covel, Saxe, Lindsey, Eames, and others, have been embalmed.”

From Rev. D. Wise, Editor of Zion's Herald, Author of the Path of Lift, Toung Men's Counsellor, dc, dr.

"It is an excellent, judicious and interesting compilation; it deserves the hearty and liberal patronage of the people of the Troy Conference, and of all who take szy interest in the career of Methodist preachers."

From Rev. Jasper Hazen, Editor of the Family Intelligencer.

"This book gives, what is much needed in a suitable form for reference, a biographical sketch of the deceased ministers of the Conference, together with short essays from living ministers. The preparing and arranging this matter for the press is dome in a manner that entitles the compiler to great credit."

From Rev. Dr. Bond, Editor of the Christian Advocate and Journal.

"The biographical sketches are valuable as matters of record as well as instruction in respect to that providential agency in the salvation of men, which is known as Methodism. The essays are by some of the ablest preachers and best writers of the Conference. We hope all our Conferences will adopt a similar method of preserving the incidents of our itinerancy.”

From Rev. Tobias Spicer, A. M.

"I regard this Miscellany as a very interesting compendium of information relative to Methodism within the bounds of Troy Conference. It brings to view, to a considerable extent, the character and labors of many of those honored men whom God employed as instruments in spreading scriptural holiness, and in some measure accounts for what has been a matter of astonishment to many-the success of Methodism throughout this region. As a book of historical reference, its value will increase with the lapse of time. The beautiful and expressive likenesses of the venerable BISHOP HEDDING, and of the active and eloquent LEVINGS, are worth all the book will cost."

From Rev. S. D. Brown, Pastor of the North Second Street M. E. Church in Troy. "I cordially concur in the above."

From Rev. B. M. Hall, Presiding Elder of Troy District.

"The Troy Conference Miscellany' is a book which I can cordially recommend to the public as both interesting and instructive. It is hoped that it will have a general circulation within the bounds of the Troy Conference; and there is much in the work to commend it to readers in other sections of our work. Our preachers will confer a favor upon the membership by bringing this book to their notice."