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From: "Myron E. Williams" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Movement to other religions?
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:28:49 -0500
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Good points, Bob.

Remember, too, that in many communities the church was the major if not the only
social outlet. If you didn't belong, you did not belong!

Myron E. Williams


wrote:

> Basically I see the movement to other denominations (This is not a change of
> religion, they are all Christians) as a matter of what church was available
> during the movement of people, in particular to the South and west.
>
> One point, the Reformed and Presbyterian churches did not move as fast as the
> people because there were an insufficient number of Pastors to shepherd the
> flocks. This was due to the Reformed and Presbyterian's high educational
> standards for their teaching Elders. The Methodists and Baptists for the most
> part called men to preach who were unschooled in the arts of hermeneutics
> (biblical interpretation) and preaching and exhortation. This got Wesley into
> a lot of trouble with the Bishops back in England and was one of the reasons
> for the split from the Episcopal Church.
>
> Bob
>
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