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ARTICLE II
SECOND GREAT AWAKENING
In the first article of this series, the beginnings of American Methodism were traced from a trip by its founder John Wesley and his brother, Charles, who made a trip as Church of England missionaries to the American Georgia colony in 1736 to the actual organization in 1784.
This historic Conference on Christmas Eve of 1784 at Lovely Lane Chapel in Baltimore was the culmination of almost 50 years of hard labor and devoted service from many noteworthy pioneer leaders, including Francis Asbury,	Robert Strawbridge,	Philip	Embury,	Barbara
Heck, Richard Boardman,	Thomas Coke, Thomas	Vasey,	Richard	Whatcoat
and others.
In the years following the Christmas Conference, the Methodist Episcopal Church adopted a quadrennial General Conference, the first of which was held in 1792.
Some 16 years later in 1808 a Constitution was drafted and refined.
The founders established a publishing house and became ardent supporters of revivalism and the camp meeting.
The church suffered two	schisms, one led by	William Hammett in 1791,
and the other by Joseph	O'Kelly in 1792.
As the Methodist movement was in its infancy in America, two other churches were being formed. The first of them was the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, founded by Philip William Otterbein (1726-1813) and Martin Boehm (1725-1812).
Otterbein, a German Reformed pastor, and Boehm, a Mennonite, preached an evangelical message and experience very similar to the Methodists.
In 1800 the Church of the United Brethren in Christ was formally organized. A second church, the Evangelical Association, was begun by Jacob Albright (1759-1808), a farmer and tilemaker in eastern Pennsylvania who had been converted and nurtured under Methodist teaching.
The Evangelical Association was officially organized in 1803. These two churches were to unite with each other in 1946 and with the Methodist Church in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church.
By the time of Francis Asbury1s death, March 31,	1816, Otterbein,
Boehm and Albright had also died. The churches with which they had been associated had survived the difficulties of early life and were beginning to expand numerically and geographically.
The early nineteenth century was a very important period in American life. Victory in the War of 1812 solidified the nation's independence and planted a vigorous optimism about its future in the minds of the people.
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