Excerpt from The Life and Sermons of Rev. William Wyatt of the Wyoming Conference I have also had respect to the fact that my life, with all others, is part of the' great book of Providence which is being written, and must go down to posterity. My father, who was born in 1770, and was fourteen years old when the Church was organized, as will be seen by these pages, was intimately connected with the rise and progress of Methodism, both in the United States and Canada, for the first eighty years of its history. Under our own observation, the Church has grown from fourteen thousand in 1784, to be counted by millions in 1878, and from narrow borders, to fill the whole land - yea, overspread a continent and the world. Here I record the part I have taken in this great work, and furnish my contribution to the general history of Methodism in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Civil War Chaplains wondered whose side God was on, and if their ministries might be in vain. They saw, on both sides, God's Spirit at work. Was the Spirit divided, was God punishing both North and South for their sins, or was there some other explanation for this seemingly endless war?