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4 ORANGE CHURCH HISTORY rl preachers as official Methodist clergymen able to administer the sacraments. This they did, and the two men chose a number of the clergy to serve as elders in the church. Because the new Methodist congregations were often widely spaced geographically, these elders were more likely to be closer at hand than the two superintendents. Thus, they were given the additional task of supervising the work of local preachers, who still served many Methodist congregations, in the absence of one of the superintendents. In 1789,the term elder was replaced by presiding elder. And in 1908, the modem term, district superintendent, was adopted for the men who were originally dubbed elders of the church. As a result of this session, Rev. Hill's home, located about one mile south of Louisburg, is now one of the historic shrines ofAmerican Methodism. Hill, who was also a prosperous farmer and prominent political figure, eventually Lovely Lane Chapel Photo by permission of Methodist Library, United Methodist Church Archives and History Center, Drew University, Madison New Jersey Green Hill Place, left Historical Marker, right hosted no fewer than four annual conferences at his home. In 1796, leaders of the General Conference established conferences with fixed geographical boundaries. Much as they do today in creating multi-church circuits, church officials looked at membership clusters and other resources in making such subdivisions. Thus North Carolina Methodists were divided between the Virginia and South Carolina Conferences. In 1824,when the Holston Conference ofTennessee was set up, North Carolina congregations west of the Blue Ridge Mountains were assigned to it. The split personality of North Carolina Methodism, however, soon passed. By 1836, Methodists in North Carolina began to attain some degree of unity when a North Carolina Conference was formed by removing some congregations from the Virginia Conference. This step began the process that eventually led to the uniting of all of North Carolina Methodism in annual conferences that were coterminous with the state's boundaries. Orange Church was in the Virginia Conference at this time. The process was not smooth and not completed without opposition. South Carolinians, for example, protested in 1850 when the North Carolina Conference was assigned churches in the Cape Fear Valley in southeastern North Carolina. Congregations near Charlotte and west of the Catawba River were placed in the North Carolina Conference at the expense of the South Carolina Conference in 1870. While state Methodists were winning autonomy from the South Carolinians, they decided to take on the Virginians as well. Most of the fight for state unity occurred in the 1850s. Victory for the North Carolina Conference came only after its members withdrew support from Randolph-Macon College and the Richmond Christian Advocate, which Methodists in both states had supported. The western part of the state was united with other North Carolinians in 1890 when the Western North Carolina Conference was formed from congregations that had been in the Holston Conference. The final unification of North Carolina Methodists occurred in 1894, when four counties in the extreme northeastern section ofN orth Carolina
were removed from the Virginia Conference and given to the North CarolinaConference. After 1894, North Carolina Methodists were responsibleto annual conferences wholly within the state. Even though Methodism may have been split awkwardly along geographiclines, it continued to flourish. Preachers reporting to annual conferences regularly told of increases in the number of Methodists attendingtheir services. Between 1798 and 1805, for instance, preachers reportedan increase in membership of 3,326 white people and 353 black people.'During this time period, Methodism was greatly affected by a massiverevival that was sweeping the country and calling people of many denominations to renew their faith. The camp meeting aspect of this revivalwas especially important for Methodism. During these years, few congregations had church buildings in which to hold their revival sessions,thus the people who came together met in groves and forests. Participantscame great distances and camped for days in order to share inhours of highly emotional preaching and singing and to witness many conversions and reaffirmations of faith. As the result of such sessions, manynew names were added to the Methodist rolls. FACING TOMORROW, UNDERSTANDING YESTERDAY 5 A Methodist Camp Meeting Photo by permission of Methodist Library, United Methodist Church Archives and History Center, Drew University, Madison New Jersey "Brush Arbor" Churches Photo by permission of Methodist Library, United Methodist Church Archives and History Center, Drew University, Madison New Jersey
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