A Short History Of The Methodists... - Media Sabda Org

We had other invitations from different parts of the country to send them preachers to labor among
them; but we were not able to answer all the demands of the people; yet we increased and enlarged
our borders greatly.
When the minutes for this year were printed, the condition of Dr. Coke's being a bishop "when
in the United States," was left out, and the question was changed, and was entered thus:
Q. "Who are the bishops of our church for the United States?
A. "Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury."
Two questions in the minutes were changed this year: one read thus.
Q. Who desist from traveling with, and under the direction of our conferences.
A. Enoch Mattson, Adam Cloud and Thomas Chew. These three preachers were considered as
being expelled from our connection, for improper conduct, though they were entered as desisting
from traveling with us. Neither of these preachers came to trial to have a proper hearing. It was
thought best to enter them in this manner, and let it be understood both by our preachers and people,
that they were cast off from us.
The other question was altered, and stands thus:
Q. What preachers have a partial location on account of their families, and are subject to the order
of conference?
A. Caleb Boyer, Samuel Dudley, William Cannon, Joseph Wyatt, Michael Ellis, and Ignatius
Pigman.
Four preachers died this year. 1. Thomas Curtis, whose character was entered thus, "Upright in
life, successful in his labors, and triumphant in his death; about seven years in the ministry.''
2. "John Major, a simple hearted man, a living, loving soul, who died as he lived, full of faith, and
of the holy ghost; ten years in the work, useful and blameless."
Mr. Major was from Virginia, and was one of the first missionaries that we sent to the state of
Georgia. His abilities as a preacher were but small; but in exhortation he was powerful and pathetic;
what he lacked in words, he generally made up in tears. Sometimes he wept from the beginning to
the end of his discourse. He was often called the "Weeping Prophet." He was a useful preacher.
When he left Virginia to go to Georgia, he wept much; after spending almost two years in Georgia,
he closed his useful life, some distance above Augusta, and not far from Savannah River.
3. "Woolman Hickson, of promising genius, and considerable preaching abilities; upright in life,
but soon snatched away from the work by a consumption, and in the midst of his usefulness: seven
years in the work." His last labors were mostly in the country, a small distance from New York, and