Preached Before the Convention by the Rev. George F. Pierce, D. D., Bishop of the M. E. Church, South. The word of God a nation's life : a sermon, preached before the Bible Convention of the Confederate States, Augusta, Georgia, March 19th, 1862. Biographies Smith, G.G., Life and Times of George F. Pierce, 1888. Fitzgerald, O.P., Eminent Methodists, 1897. Family Reminiscences, Julia Pierce, granddaughter (hand-written), 1947, in the Methodist Bishops' Collection Library of Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. See also List of bishops of the United Methodist Church Notes Sources Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948. Purifoy, Lewis. "The Southern Methodist Church and the Proslavery Argument", published in The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 32, No. 3. (August 1966), pp. 325–341. External links An Emory History Bishop George Foster Pierce historical marker 1811 births 1884 deaths Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South American Methodist Episcopal, South bishops American religion academics American sermon writers American theologians Holiness movement University of Georgia alumni Presidents of Emory University Methodist writers Burials in Georgia (U.S. state) 19th-century American bishops 19th-century Methodist bishops People from Greene County, Georgia