Additional information can be found in Morris’ Wikipedia page, and in John F. Marlay, The Life of Rev. Thomas A. Morris, D.D., Late Senior Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden, 1875).
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Morris 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 Morris' sermons and discourses. It includes the title, scripture text, date and place the address was delivered (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
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Discourse on Methodist Church Polity
Thomas Asbury Morris
This 91-page treatise is based on a “discourse” Morris delivered “at the sessions of North Indiana and Pittsburgh conferences” in the spring of 1858 (p. 5). The published version, he wrote, “embodies [his] mature thoughts on our Church polity, or rather an outline of them, after many years of experience and observation” (pp. 5-6).
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Drawing Near to God
Thomas Asbury Morris
“Drawing Near to God,” a sermon on Hebrews 10:22, was published as Sermon XII of The Methodist Episcopal Pulpit (New York: Lane & Tippett, 1848).
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Semi-centennial Sermon
Thomas Asbury Morris
Morris’ “semi-centennial sermon,” on Isaiah 59:21, was published in John F. Marlay, The Life of Rev. Thomas A. Morris, D.D., Late Senior Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden, 1875).
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Sermons on Various Subjects
Thomas Asbury Morris
In the Preface, Morris writes that he published this book to help meet a need for “instructive discourses on various religious subjects, suited in matter, manner, and cost to our people” (p. 3). John F. Marlay, Morris’ biographer, believed he was successful, describing the sermons as “admirable specimens of the plain, pointed, and vigorous style of the author.” The book, he maintained, “will doubtless occupy a permanent place among the sermon literature of the Church” (p. 171).
