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The first decade of the century ended with Methodism established in all the New England states. It had one extensive Conference, and a large portion of a second. The four districts with which it [3] began the century had increased to eight; its thirty-two circuits to seventy-one; its fifty-eight preachers to one hundred and fourteen, and its five thousand eight hundred and thirty nine members to seventeen thousand five hundred and ninety-two. These statistics exhibit a remarkable progress, even if we take not into account the quite inauspicious circumstances of the denomination in the Eastern states. In ten years its districts had doubled, its circuits considerably more than doubled, its ministry lacked but two of being doubled, and its membership had more than trebled. It had gained in these ten years eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty-three members, an average increase of more than one thousand one hundred and seventy-five each year, or nearly one hundred per month. Its self-sacrificing preachers, who, in both their labors and sufferings, were indeed "a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men," might well have exclaimed, "Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place." There was no considerable section of New England which was not now penetrated or compassed by their circuits, and but few localities which heard not occasionally, if not regularly, the voice of their ministrations. At the close of the second decade its membership numbered nearly twenty-five thousand, its ministry one hundred and twenty-five traveling, and some hundreds of local preachers. Such were the beginnings and early growths of that great harvest which, by the centenary of American Methodism (1866) was to yield, in New England, one hundred and three thousand four hundred and seventy-two members, and about a thousand traveling preachers, with nearly nine hundred chapels, more than a hundred thousand Sunday-school students, and thirteen educational institutions, including a university, a theological school, and boarding academies. The vitality of Methodism would be tested in New England, if anywhere; the result has been most satisfactory. The increase of members, from the beginning of the century, has been eighteen-fold. In 1800 there was one Methodist to two hundred and eleven inhabitants; in 1830, one to forty-four; in 1866, one to thirty-one. The greatest proportion is in Vermont, where there is one Methodist to twenty of the inhabitants; the least is in Rhode Island, where there is one to fifty-seven. Through every decade save one (1840-1850) the denomination has gained upon the growth of the population, notwithstanding the rapid ingress of foreign papists. Methodism has become, in our day, in New England aggregately, the second denomination in numerical strength, and the first in progress. In the state of Maine it is the first numerically; in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut the second; in Massachusetts the third, in Rhode Island the fourth. In the metropolis itself it makes more rapid progress than any other Protestant [4] denomination, and its churches are among the best architectural monuments of the city. Not only to the frontier populations of the nation, West, South, and North, had it a special mission, as seen in its peculiar adaptations and signal success; it had a providential work in New England, and has achieved it with equal success. At its introduction there the reaction of the rigorous Puritan theology had set in, as has been seen, and was threatening the very foundations of "orthodoxy;" Methodism, by presenting an intermediate, benign, and vital theology, provided a safe resting-place for the public mind. It has stimulated the elder Churches to new life, and has fortified itself into a powerful communion throughout all the Eastern states, sending thence, meanwhile, into all other parts of the Republic, communicants, preachers, educators, and influences which have developed and
strengthened the whole denomination. It has done great things for New England, and received great blessings from it. ------------------------------------------------
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WESLEYAN HERITAGE Library HISTORY O
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HISTORY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL
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BOOK VI CHAPTER I = PART 58 METHODI
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CHAPTER IX = PART 66 METHODISM IN T
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CHAPTER XV = PART 72 REVIEW OF THE
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disappearance of Coke, Asbury, What
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convened, a second time, in Wilbrah
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yet I did not go out that year; but
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He returned again to New Jersey in
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Asbury pressed on westward with his
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congregation, and meanwhile advanci
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direction of the presiding elder, G
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traveled in Massachusetts, Rhode Is
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knowledge. His judgment was always
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He did great services and endured g
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of the itinerants. There was no one
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found adequate to the singular exig
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as a sail in a leaking canoe, and p
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[16] of his decease, sent home for
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passing through small villages; but
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HISTORY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
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God. The Scotchman could endure it
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[7] Conference till the next year.
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y his own hands, and his furniture
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there were three circuits, with thr
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performed incredible labors and tra
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"in the wilds of Virginia, where he
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ed, and trembling with agitation. E
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this melancholy record. I never rea
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at Cabbin Creek, Ky., twenty thousa
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in that vast wilderness, and had no
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poles. This was their bedstead. Som
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Benjamin Lakin, Samuel Doughty John
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Gibson. "Here," say his brethren, "
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of the Little Miami River. On Thurs
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Circuit) for this year began at Moo
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Sale, J. Oglesby; Guyandotte, Asa S
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worst for stealing, fighting, and l
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twentieth they reached the scene of
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the toil and sufferings, of another
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ENDNOTES 1 See Extracts by Bishop M
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37 Rev. Dr. Trimble's Address at Oh
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my father's neighborhood. The Confe
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attempted also to make local preach
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tireless apostle completed by the n
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to prepare forms of petition to the
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a change which it has always since
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Methodism was now entrenched in eve
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ENDNOTES 1 Bangs, (II, p. 171,) fol
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Methodists in other places, and wis
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are reported from Flint Circuit. Th
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Russell, fallen as he was from the
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intensely bright by the grateful jo
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[3] and threatened to return home.
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he prepared for South Carolina, wit
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the expediency of increasing the nu
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itinerants he said, "See that every
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In our day (1866) the Methodist Boo
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edifice was soon after provided in
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in both hemispheres, and which prop
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even romantic record, but our limit
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He organized the Liberia Mission. H
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and the moral prospects of the worl
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ut we may well hesitate to admit th
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They preached and suffered in Engla
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ENDNOTES 1 An error in the Minutes
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and great labors; his charity, his
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directing the advancing Church with
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history, and presents, in full vita
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