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The ''Christian Advocate'' was a weekly newspaper published in
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Methodist Episcopal Church The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself on a national basis. In ...
. It began publication in 1826 and by the mid-1830s had become the largest circulating weekly in the United States, with more than 30,000 subscribers and an estimated 150,000 readers. After changes of name and a split into two publications, publication ceased in 1975.


Overview

The Methodist Book concern was authorized by the General Conference to publish ''The Christian Advocate'' for 147 years. Its publishing location would change as the Methodist Church expanded westward and the slavery issue divided the church in 1844. After the church united again, what had become a monthly magazine was finally edited in
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and printed in
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, in 1939. It was first a weekly
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, and later a monthly magazine for Methodist families. In the intervening years, ''The Advocate'' name was part of the name of numerous Methodist journals published by local conferences and jurisdictions of the church. The last chapter of the ''Christian Advocate'' magazine was reported in ''
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'' magazine's Religion section (October 11, 1956): In 1959 editors of ''The New Christian Advocate'' changed the name back to ''The Christian Advocate'' and its format from pocket size to full size, with circulation bi-monthly. In 1973, due to declining circulation, the United Methodist Board of Publishing authorized the replacement of both magazines with a pocket-sized magazine entitled ''United Methodists Today''. A supplement for pastors was published, ''Today's Ministry''. Both magazines ended in 1975.


In popular culture

The ''Christian Advocate'' featured in the third episode of the 2022
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series '' The Gilded Age'', as an example of the prejudice black writers faced in the 1880s.


Notable editors and writers

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Nathan Bangs Nathan Bangs (2 May 1778 – 3 May 1862) was an American Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition and influential leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church prior to the 1860s. Born in Stratford, Connecticut, he received a limited edu ...
* James Monroe Buckley * William Curnow *
John Price Durbin John Price Durbin (October 10, 1800 - October 18, 1876) was an American Methodist clergyman and educator who served as Chaplain of the United States Senate from 1831 to 1832 and president of Dickinson College from 1833 to 1844. Early life Durbi ...
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Charles Henry Fowler Charles Henry Fowler (August 11, 1837 – March 20, 1908) was a Canadian-American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (elected in 1884) and President of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois from 1872 to 1876. Early life Charles ...
* George PeckAmasa Franklin Chaffee, "George Peck," ''History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.'' New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pp. 220-223. Found in
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Accessed 26 August 2009.


See also

*'' Southwestern Christian Advocate'' *'' Wesleyan Christian Advocate''


References

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