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CHAPTER V = PART 62 METHODISM IN THE MIDDLE AND NORTHERN STATES, 1804 --1820: CONCLUDED Methodism in the Interior of Pennsylvania and New York -- Old Canaan Circuit -- Peter Vannest crosses the Genesee River -- First Class and first Camp-meeting beyond it -- George Lane -- Glezen Fillmore "Exhorting" -- Thomas Smith's Northern Adventures -- A Scene in Lyons, N. Y. -- Organization of Genesee Conference -- Methodism in Canada -- William Case, the Apostle to the Indians -- Progress in Canada -- The War -- Robert Hibbard perishes in the St. Lawrence -- Declension of the provincial Church by the War -- Its renewed Prosperity -- Genesee Conference meets in Canada -- Great Revival -- Continued Success -- Canadian Methodism in 1820 -- Methodism of the Middle and North in 1820 -- Obituary of Preachers -- Asbury CHAPTER VI = PART 63 METHODISM IN THE EASTERN STATES, 1804-1820 Review -- Lee -- Aaron Sandford -- Ministerial Recruits -- Wilbur Fisk -- Importance of his Services -- His Character -- Edward T. Taylor, Mariners' Preacher, Boston -- His Romantic History -- Joshua Soule - Elijah Hedding -- His Review of his Itinerant Life -- George Pickering -- Martin Ruter -- Progress of the Church CHAPTER VII = PART 64 ASBURY AND LEE IN THE EAST Asbury in the East -- His Views of New England -- At Buxton Conference, Maine -- Great Religions Excitement -- At Lynn, Mass. -- Characters of Preachers -- Great Revival -- At Canaan, N. H -- Travels and Labors -- At Boston -- The First Conference there -- at New London, Conn. -- Increasing Prosperity -- Newport, R. I. -- Captain Beale -- At Boston -- Conference at Monmouth, Me. -- At Pittsfield, Mass. -- At Winchester, N. H. -- Lee Revisits the East -- Scenes on his Route -- Final Views of New England Methodism -- Deaths of Preachers -- Statistical Progress CHAPTER VIII = PART 65 METHODISM IN THE WEST, 1804-1820 Geography of Western Methodism -- Progress In Western Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh Conference -- Robert R. Roberts' Hardships -- Gruber -- Usefulness of Shewel, a Local Preacher -- Thomas Branch's Death in the Wilderness -- A Society formed there -- James B. Finley's Character -- A great Western Camp-meeting -- Finley's Conversion -- His Labors and Sufferings -- Sketch of William Swayze -- Charles Elliott's Services -- Alfred Brunson -- Quinn in the Northwestern Territory -- Whatcoat's Salutation -- Jane Trimble -- Review of Quinn's Labors -- Primitive Camp-meetings -- Growth of Methodism In Indiana -- In Michigan
CHAPTER IX = PART 66 METHODISM IN THE WEST, CONTINUED: 1804 -- 1820 Progress in Illinois -- Jesse Walker -- His Pioneer Adventures -- McKendree and Walker in the Wilderness -- Walker's Camp-meeting -- His Success -- He enters Missouri -- Oglesby and Travis there -- Missouri Conference Organized -- Walker's Sufferings -- He Introduces Methodism into St. Louis -- His Determined Struggles there -- He goes to the Indian Tribes -- Labors at Chicago -- His Death and Character -- Samuel Parker, "the Cicero of the West" -- James Axley's extraordinary Character and Labors -- He Attacks Slavery and Whisky -- Peter Cartwright's Early Life -- Remarkable Scene at a Quarterly Meeting -- His extensive Services -- David Young -- John Collins -- Judge McLean's Conversion and Character CHAPTER X = PART 67 METHODISM IN THE WEST, CONTINUED: 1804-1820 John Strange -- His great Eloquence -- Russell Bigelow's Character and Eloquence -- Bishop Thomson's Account of one of his Forest Sermons -- Sketch of Henry B. Bascom -- Of Thomas A. Morris -- Of John P. Durbin -- Advance of Methodism in the Southwest -- Elisha W. Bowman In Louisiana -- His Explorations and Hardships -- Scene between Asbury and Jacob Young at Governor Tiffin's Home -- Young in the Southwest -- Lorenzo Dow there -- Axley's Sufferings and Achievements -- Sketch of William Winans -- Other Southwestern Itinerants CHAPTER XI = PART 68 METHODISM IN THE WEST, CONCLUDED: 1804 -- 1820 Richmond Nolley and his Band of Pioneers set out for the Southwest -- Lewis Hobbs and Thomas Griffin -- Death of Hobbs -- Nolley's Extraordinary Labors -- Anecdote -- Makes his Way into the Interior of Louisiana -- Perishes in the Woods -- Daniel De Vinne in Louisiana -- Mississippi Conference Organized -- Judge Lane -- Dr. Kennon -- Joseph Travis -- Other Itinerants -- Asbury in the West -- His Opinion of Camp-meetings -- His great Interest for the West -- His Career closes -- Great Progress of Western Methodism -- Its Anti-slavery Character -- Ecclesiastical Action on Slavery -- Camp-meeting Excesses -- The "Jerks" -- Death of William Lostpeich -- Of George Askin -- Of Hezekiah Harriman -- Aboriginal Missions begun -- John Stewart, a Negro, the first Missionary -- His Singular History and Success -- Mary Stubbs -- Outspread of Missions
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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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HISTORY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
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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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ENDNOTES 1 Bangs, ii, 194. Dunwody'
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intensely bright by the grateful jo
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eached the furthest end of the piaz
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his humble shed and the chancel whe
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class-meetings, and to no small ext
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1 Minutes, 1858. ENDNOTES 2 Rev. Dr
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grandchildren were gay and playful;
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in a swamp on the Waccamaw Lake, a
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ENDNOTE 1 A few months ago, accompa
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Asbury, in the summer of 180, wrote
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means by which this necessary objec
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I should have to preach, but determ
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themselves, it was resolved that th
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ENDNOTES 1 Bangs, though his narrat
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directions, preaching as far as Buf
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and in the States, from the Ulster
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Conference sent over three missiona
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1814 Michael Coate, of New Jersey,
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limits, when it will devolve upon t
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That very significant and convenien
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Channing, the elder Beecher, Wainwr
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in the eyes of the people, and grea
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own souls, because ye were dear unt
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Early in the spring of 1808 he retu
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seventeen preachers upon trial. The
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this meeting. Monday, 22d, I turned
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strengthened the whole denomination
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savage men, and venomous serpents."
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indescribable. At one time I saw at
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extraordinary learning, of tireless
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oom; but, finding there no means of
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By the end of our present period th
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some sixty or seventy souls. They a
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stacked away at the end of the cour
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olled over the whole Conference." H
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ashamed of yourselves?' which only
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living; I have outlived every membe
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iographer of the itinerant. Born in
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gentleman. While the circles of fas
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His itinerant ministry in the West
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took a prominent part in the great
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to the people, and to go back to Na
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country. These were about to return
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of preachers had increased thirty-f
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1 Rev. F. C. Holliday, in Sprague,
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Astonishing, superhuman almost, as
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of "through the interior of Louisia
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their children. In ten years, I thi
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hates the nefarious practice. In th
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15 I must remind the reader that I
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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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1 General Conference Journal,, vol.
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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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