Fillmore, A. N. Ecclesiastical Polity: its Forms and Philosophy. Rochester: Harrison & Luckey, Printers, 1847. First Edition. [10517] Black cloth with gilt titles, edge-worn with some worming in the bottom joint, 7 3/4 x 5 inches, 216 pp., tight, light foxing. Good. Hardcover. Our author examines the various kinds of existing church governments and the theories behind church government itself. He finds that of the Methodist Episcopal Church to be the most desirable. Asahel Norton Fillmore (1807-1880), b. Paris, NY; d. Watkins Glen, NY. Rev. Fillmore was a minister with the Methodist Episcopal Church, the brother of the Rev. Dr. Glezen Fillmore and a cousin to President Millard Fillmore. He is described on page 34 of Hibbard's History of the Late East Genesee Conference (1887) as having "broad good-wiil, and the 'charity which never faileth' - clear in his conception of doctrines, and in his knowledge of church law and policy, firm in his convictions, thoroughly evangelical, and of incorruptible integrity."
