Description: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL 1992. First hardcover printing with 183 pages. Photographs and illustrations. A Very Good plus solid copy with two blue pen check marks near the start of the paragraph. One on page 40 and one on page 44 and then on rear endpaper previous owner noted which pages had the blue check mark on a paragraph that was of obvious interest to them. Dust jacket is Near Fine. INSCRIBED by author, Henry C. Whyman, on front endpaper. Shipping---see details. The first book-length biographical treatment of Olof Gustaf Hedstrom and his brother Jonas documents their work in spreading Methodism among Swedish immigrants to America. Henry C. Whyman discusses the Bethel Ship Saga, a ministry unique in American immigrant history, and examines the larger picture of the role of religion in nineteenth-century European immigration to the United States.The Bethel Ship, a floating chapel in New York Harbor, was the vehicle and headquarters for an effective ministry to immigrants arriving in America. Olof Hedstrom, a Methodist minister serving in the Catskill Mountain area, was called to New York to organize and lead this endeavor.
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Subject Area: Religion, Social Science
Book Title: The Hedstroms and the Bethel Ship Saga, Methodist
Publication Name: The Hedstrom & the Bethel Ship Saga
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject: Christian Ministry / Missions, Christianity / Methodist, Emigration & Immigration
Publication Year: 1992
Type: History Methodist & Sweedes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.8 in
Author: Henry C. Whyman
Personalized: Yes
Features: Signed
Topic: Methodist Religion, Swedish Immigrants to U.S.
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Width: 5.5 in
Number of Pages: 200 Pages