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==Abstraction==
A regional paper of the Methodist Episcopal Church, based in Auburn, western New York. Founded as the Northern Advocate in 1841 by the Reverend John E. Robie, the weekly was edited by Rev. Freeborn G. Hibbard, then by "radical" abolitionist Rev. William Hosmer <ref>(Ray Allen, [[:File:History of the East Genesee Annual Conference - of the Methodist Episcopal Church.pdf|History of the East Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church]] [Rochester, NY: Published by the Author, 1908] 33</ref> <ref>Ralph A. Keller, "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3163755 Methodist Newspapers and the Fugitive Slave Law: A New Perspective for the Slavery Crisis in the North]," Church History 43 [1974]: 320, n6)</ref>. It was purchased by the Methodist Book Concern in 1844; renamed the Northern Christian Advocate, it became an official church organ <ref>(Allen, 33)</ref>. Rev. William Hosmer returned to the Advocate in 1848 and continued as editor until his reelection was blocked by a conservative faction that objected to his antislavery program at the General Conference of 1856. Hibbard was installed as Hosmer's replacement; during his editorship (1856–1859), the Advocate claimed 10,400 subscribers <ref>(Howard A. Snyder, Populist Saints: B. T. and Ellen Roberts and the First Free Methodists [Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006], 370, 544)</ref>. Hibbard was succeeded by Isaac S. Bingham (1860–1863) and Dallas D. Lore (1864–1874) <ref>(Allen, 34)</ref>. In 1872 the paper moved from Auburn to Syracuse. It closed in February 1917.

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