Additional information can be found on Bascom’s Wikipedia page; in Matthew Simpson, Cyclopaedia of Methodism (Philadelphia: Everts & Stewart, 1878); and especially Moses Montgomery Henkle, The Life of Henry Bidleman Bascom: Late Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Louisville, KY: Morton & Griswold, 1854).
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Bascom User Guide
Robert H. Ellison
The User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.
This part of the Guide provides information about Bascom's sermons. It includes the title, sermon text, date and place the sermon was preached (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well. At the moment, Cross of Christ is the only sermon in the Guide; information about Bascom's other works will be added soon.
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Lectures on Mental and Moral Philosophy, on Natural Theology, and on the History and Philosophy of Letters
Henry Bidleman Bascom
This is Volume 3 of Thomas Neely Ralston’s 4-volume Posthumous Works of the Rev. Henry B. Bascom, D.D., LL.D., One of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. It contains 1 “Lecture on Moral Science,” 27 “Lectures on Mental Science,” 21 “Lectures on Moral and Political Philosophy, 1 “Lecture on Natural Theology,” and a “Glance at the History and Philosophy of Letters.”
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Posthumous Works of the Rev. Henry B. Bascom, D.D., LL.D., One of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Henry Bidleman Bascom
This is Volume 2 of a 4-part series; unlike the other volumes, it does not carry a separate title. The contents include 5 “Lectures on the Relative Claims of Christianity and Infidelity,” Bascom’s inaugural discourse as president of Madison College, speeches on temperance and the history of Methodism, and 2 commencement addresses.
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Sermons, and Sketches of Sermons, from the Pulpit
Henry Bidleman Bascom
This is Volume 4 of Thomas Neely Ralston’s 4-volume Posthumous Works of the Rev. Henry B. Bascom, D.D., LL.D., One of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. It contains 21 sermons on such subjects as “Angelic Agency,” “Christ’s Mediatorial Character,” and “The Truth and Importance of Christianity.”
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Cross of Christ: Being a Sermon, Preached by the Late H.B. Bascom ... Before the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South ... To Which is Added a Brief Sketch of His Illness and Death; Together With the Funeral Discourse ... September 21st, 1850
Henry Bidleman Bascom
The title page indicates that Bascom preached this sermon “Immediately preceding his Ordination to the Episcopal Office, in St. Louis, Missouri, May 12th, 1850.” It was delivered outside Appalachia; it is included in the Library to help paint a complete picture of his preaching.
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Sermons from the Pulpit
Henry Bidleman Bascom
The 12 sermons in this collection address such topics as “The Death of Christ,” “The Triumph of Christianity over Death,” and “Heaven” and “The Judgment.” The book was republished as Volume 1 of Posthumous Works of the Rev. Henry B. Bascom, D.D., LL.D., One of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Nashville, TN: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1905).
A statement in the Preface reads: "The following discourses go to the press, in the precise form in which they were prepared for the pulpit. No one of them was written with a view to publication. They are in fact the 'Preaching Notes' of the author, as used by him in preparing for the pulpit, during a term of more than thirty years" (p. 7).
