EDWIN SCHELL | By Edwin Schell As the Baltimore-Washington Conference prepares to meet next month in Baltimore, this column will include highlights of Methodism since it began in this historic area. 1866 - Methodist Protestants opened Western Maryland College (now McDaniel) in Westminster.
1867 - Centenary Biblical Institute (now Morgan University) was begun in Baltimore to train black preachers.
1879 - The 'Baltimore Methodist' joined the weekly 'Methodist Protestant' among Baltimore's religious newspapers.
1884 - A Christmas Centennial Conference in Washington was interracial and interdenominational.
1886 - The American Methodist Historical Society was reincorporated in Maryland with officers from the Methodist Episcopal; Methodist Episcopal, South; Methodist Protestant and African Methodist Episcopal churches.
1888 - The Woman's College of Baltimore (now Goucher) opened with 80 students.
1891 - The Second Ecumenical Methodist Conference brought world Methodism to Washington.
1894 - After personality conflicts divided the Evangelical Association, most of the churches in Maryland became United Evangelical.
The Rev. Edwin Schell is the executive director of the United Methodist Historical Society. |
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