02653cam a22003851 4500 rc 01000750 DLC 20260227111901.0 cr ||||||||||| cr_||||||||||| 810903s1858 nyuf 000 0 eng rc 01000750 DLC CarP DLC n-us-ca F864 .T26 F864 .T26 Copy 2 Copy 2. Taylor, William, 1821-1902. California life illustrated. By William Taylor, of the California conference ... 11th thousand. New York, Pub. for the author, by Carlton & Porter, 1858. 348 p. incl. front., plates. 19 cm. William Taylor (1821-1902) was a Methodist minister specializing in "street preaching" in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., when the Methodist church sent him to California as a missionary evangelist in 1849. He remained in the West for seven years, going on to become one of the church's most tireless worldwide evangelists. He later conducted crusades in Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa. In 1884 he was named Missionary Bishop for Africa and he focused his energies on missionary activities on that continent. Taylor spent his last years in California, the site of his first mission. California life illustrated (1858) expands on his reminiscences in Seven years' street preaching in San Francisco (1857). He describes his voyage to California and gives details of family life, social life, politics and church history in San José, Santa Cruz, and Sacramento. He comments at length on California agriculture and mineral resources and offers a chapter on mining camp life. After founding the Powell Street church, Taylor explains, he undertook a mission to sailors in San Francisco which left him so burdened by debt that he returned east to publish books and conduct revivals in the hope of putting his finances in order. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. No known restrictions on publication. Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site. California Description and travel. Missions California. Ethnic groups California. Urbanization California. Real estate development California. Mines and mineral resources California. Religion and ethics California. calbk 063 t http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.063 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.0001948063A 51892 51892