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HISTORY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH in the United States of America By Abel Stevens, LL.D., Author of "The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century called Methodism," etc. VOLUME III New York: Published By Carlton & Porter, 200 Mulberry-Street 1867 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Carlton & Porter, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York
HISTORY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH By Abel Stevens VOLUME III CONTENTS BOOK V FROM THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1792 TO THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1804 CHAPTER I = PART 36 GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1792 -- O'KELLY'S SCHISM Necessity of a General Conference -- Coke returns to America -- The General Conference -- The "Council" ignored -- Excited Debates -- Religious Interest -- Amendments of the Discipline -- The Presiding Eldership established -- General Conferences ordained -- Supernumeraries -- Preachers' Wives -- Other Amendments -- O'Kelly and the Appointing Power -- Great Debates -- O'Kelly and others Secede -- Merits of the Question -- Conclusion of the Conference -- Its Character -- O'Kelly's Schism -- Disastrous Consequences -- War of Pamphlets -- Asbury -- Loss of Members -- Results -- Asbury's Interview with O'Kelly -- His continued Hostility -- Was there a General Conference between 1784 and 1792 -- Note CHAPTER II = PART 37 METHODISM IN THE SOUTH, FROM THE SECOND TO THE THIRD GENERAL CONFERENCES, 1792 -- 1796 Coke -- His Proposition to Bishop White for the Union of the Methodist Episcopal and Protestant Episcopal Churches -- Cokesbury College -- Coke in Philadelphia -- At New York -- Perilous Accident -- Asbury in the South -- Among the O'Kellyites -- His great Labors and Sufferings -- At Rembert Hall -- Hammett's Schism in Charleston, S. C. -- Asbury in Georgia -- At the Ruins of Whitefield's Orphan House -- Among the Western Mountains -- At General Russell's -- Death of the General-- Asbury at Baltimore -- Scenes and Labors in the South -- Death of Judge White -- Further Travels and Labors
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Page 5 and 6: CHAPTER VI = PART 41 METHODISM IN T
Page 7 and 8: CHAPTER XII = PART 47 METHODISM IN
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Page 11 and 12: Stevens' "History of the Meth. Epis
Page 13 and 14: that intelligent readers, who can a
Page 15 and 16: public worship. The project, howeve
Page 17 and 18: necessary for the administration of
Page 19 and 20: he writes in his journal at the tim
Page 21 and 22: one was constrained to remain in th
Page 23 and 24: confusion; and in some places they
Page 25 and 26: ENDNOTES [Endnote #26 below was pla
Page 27 and 28: 1st, 1787, and that Mr. Richard Wha
Page 29 and 30: Second General Conference; there ha
Page 31 and 32: of the Spirit," and preaching some
Page 33 and 34: Doctor Coke, and poor me. O that I
Page 35 and 36: for the mountaineer settlers, who f
Page 37 and 38: little as may be about distressing
Page 39 and 40: followed by another passage over th
Page 41 and 42: 1 Asbury's Journals, April 25, 1791
Page 43 and 44: they never were injurious,) they ap
Page 45 and 46: frequently exerted his little remai
Page 47 and 48: cleaner heart, and as fully deliver
Page 49 and 50: and we had a weeping time, and I be
Page 51 and 52: covered with his hands, looking for
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eceived my first religious impressi
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home, but had not money enough for
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Berkeley County, Va. I did so; but
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DVM] He only changed his field and
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in general quite social and agreeab
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same southern preparatory field. Th
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HISTORY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
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as we have seen, had for some time
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of the preachers not coming in unti
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Almost unerring prudence marked his
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with Jesse Lee in New England, he w
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imposing. In stature he was full si
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to New Providence, to the house of
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"preaching as often as when he trav
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most of the extent of the Hudson. "
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in this part of the world." Only ab
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away. He held up by a tree until th
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proclaim his message there. He coul
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21 Biographical Sketch of Rev. Vale
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In 1791 he was still retained in th
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much; exacting, urgent, pressing. -
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[12] itinerants of that day. He con
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had to do it as gently as I could,
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though of another nation; and the t
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up, and were able to provide for th
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1, 1791; sanctified, February 6, 17
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Such was the influence of Wooster o
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ENDNOTES 1 "It may be certainly rec
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not only a sanctuary for the worshi
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went forth for prayer. My mind beca
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Mrs. S. Hull. It is cheering to loo
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Joshua Taylor, who lingered, in Mai
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Circuit. In 1794 he traveled, with
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great circuit. During this year, pr
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esponsibilities in the State. In 18
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through most of the states, they we
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promiscuously, as they judge will m
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England. They were hedged in on eve
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19 Dr. Huntington's Letter. 20 Dr.
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accompanied by Roberts, they were a
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surprised to find him again rising
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propensity, it is no matter of surp
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people," he says. "I met the class,
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society in the city about two years
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eturns of Church members was now 2,
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1 Enoch Mudge to the author. 2 Lett
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of us slept before a large fire. Th
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Not a few characters meriting perpe
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men, and wounded as many more. By o
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of the beauty, unction, and eloquen
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Burke immediately determined to mak
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[16] devoted man whose melancholy d
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In 1801 he went to Chilicothe, Ohio
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indebted than to any other man for
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Tuesday preceding. The Saturday fol
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was a novel sight to see for a Sund
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were mercifully preserved. How much
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"I hobbled! on," he continues, "ove
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ENDNOTES 1 The reader has noticed t
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31 See vol. ii, p. 341. 32 So. Meth
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importance to the preaching of the
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Coke says: "All was unity and love.
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Hezekiah C. Wooster, Enoch Mudge, D
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ENDNOTES 1 It reported a diminution
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people; it is the fault of the prea
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It was "Punch;" the bishop's passin
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In April, 1798, he resumed his trav
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was this day advised by the yearly
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prosperous year the Church had know
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Smith sent him word that he would b
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have good times, down to the very e
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Washington. "I enjoyed," he writes,
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This good Presbyterian was Major Jo
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on them, for they were both infirm
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1 Journals, anno, 1800. 2 Hist. of
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Asbury made no less than twelve pas
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I am dying, shouting the praises of
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he rode; then you drew his likeness
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in battle. There was no preaching u
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if it were yesterday. Her wise coun
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Spirit.' As a preacher he was origi
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[13] among the Methodists in the ye
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11 Sprague, p. 277. 12 Rev. Dr. Luc
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awful! how devout the prayer! What
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good; I was a complete sink of sin
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a zeal that labored mightily, and e
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eached them in whatever recesses of
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hereafter claim our attention. The
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out, and buffeted the dangers and d
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portions of the Church, wept over a
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place, and they have been increasin
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for dar old fader too. And many cri
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local preacher. Four new laborers a
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secretary, or treasurer, and during
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He made an excursion from his circu
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meet with some peril should I attem
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Methodists, in the old graveyard in
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for more than forty years. The ten
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of youth, but about his twenty-seco
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with him at his father's, in the to
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flame, which all the united powers
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