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

The forty-sixth at Lane's chapel, on the 14th of June.
The forty-seventh at Union Town, on the 29th of July.
The forty-eighth at Leesburg, on the 26th of August.
The forty-ninth in Baltimore, on the 6th of September.
The fiftieth at Cokesbury, on the 11th of September.
The fifty-first at Duck-Creek, on the 16th of September.
The fifty-second in Philadelphia, on the 22d of September.
The fifty-third in Burlington, on the 28th of September.
The fifty-fourth in New-York on the 4th of October.
At these conferences we took in 20 new circuits and stations. Three of them were in the south,
Savannah, Savannah Town and Catauba. There were six more in the west, namely, Lexington,
Limestone, Madison, Russel, Green and Lincoln. The others were Contentney, low down in North
Carolina; and Surry low down in Virginia, and Stafford in the north part of the state; and Canauway
in the upper part of the state. South River in Maryland, and Bethel in New Jersey, and Randolph high
up the country. In Connecticut we took in three, Newhaven, Hartford and Litchfield. And one in
Massachusetts called Boston.
We admitted on trial this year sixty-eight young preachers, and added to the society 14356
members. There were more added to the society this year, than ever had been before in the course
of one year. And with all we had 116 circuits on the minutes this year.
The form of the minutes was now altered, and the first question was, "Who are admitted on trial?"
This mode of beginning the minutes has ever since been pursued. The second question is, "Who
remain on trial?" and thus proceed up in gradation to the bishops. Formerly the first question was,
"Who are the bishops?" and then proceed downwards to the lowest order.
Several preachers located this year; and some of them were of long standing in the traveling
connection. Henry Willis, had traveled twelve years. Edward Morris nine years. Jeremiah Mastin five
years. Matthew Greentree seven years. Levin Ross five years, and the others had traveled a shorter
time.
Three preachers died this year, and the characters given them in the minutes were as follows:
"Cornelius Cook, he was a faithful laborer and patient sufferer, while he was employed in the church
for three years; and departed in peace and confidence in the month of August 1789." His complaint
was singular; it was a profuse discharge of blood through the kidneys. One night after a discharge
of perhaps five or six quarts of blood and water, which ran from him in a constant stream, he thought