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CHAPTER IX = PART 44 METHODISM IN THE WEST -- 1792 -- 1796 Review -- Asbury again among the Mountains -- His Hardships -- John Cooper the first Itinerant appointed to the West -- His Colleague Samuel Breese -- Henry Willis -- His Sufferings, Persistent Labors, and Character -- Moriarty, Tunnell, and Poythress -- The Frontier at this Period -- Smith and Boone in the Wilderness -- Extreme Hardships of the Pioneer Itinerants -- Character and Condition of the Settlers -- Methodism saves them from Barbarism -- Barnabas McHenry enters the Field -- The first Methodist Itinerant raised up in the West -- His Labors -- Anecdotes -- His Death by Cholera -- His Character -- William Burke -- Perils from Indians -- Perils in the Wilderness with Asbury -- Martyred Local Preachers -- Burke's Trials and Services -- John Kobler -- Judge Scott -- His Early Labors -- He receives into the Church Dr. Tiffin -- Sketch of Tiffin -- His first Preaching -- Scott meets him in the West -- Tiffin's Usefulness -- Mrs. Tiffin -- Tiffin becomes the first Governor of Ohio -- His Character -- Scott's Success -- Francis McCormick, Founder of Methodism in Ohio -- Sketch of his Life -- Henry Smith's Western Adventures -- Major McColoch -- Valentine Cook -- Asbury again in the West -- Review CHAPTER X = PART 45 GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1796 The Third General Conference -- Coke's Return -- Pierre de Pontavice, his Traveling Companion -- The Proceedings of the Conference -- Definitive Annual Conferences -- Chapel Deed -- Censorship of the Press -- The Methodist Magazine -- The Chartered Fund -- Local Preachers -- Spirituous Liquors -- Slavery -- Rules for Methodist Seminaries -- Marriage with Unbelievers -- Address to the British Conference -- Asbury and Coke on the Session CHAPTER XI = PART 46 REVIEW OF THE PERIOD: 1792 --1796 Importance of the Period -- Numerical Declension -- Sectional Growth -- Statistics -- Great Number of Locations -- Public Fast and Thanksgiving-- Slavery and Loyalty -- Methodist Preachers and Politics -- Washington's Letter to three of them -- Ministerial Recruits -- The Presiding Elders -- Obituary Characterizations -- Birchett -- Scene at the Grave of Acuff -- Prophetic Letter from Coke
CHAPTER XII = PART 47 METHODISM IN THE SOUTH: 1706--1804 Asbury and Coke Itinerating in the South -- Losses by Locations -- Slavery -- Asbury's Interest for Africans -- The Bishop and Black "Punch" -- Asbury's Dejection -- The Bishops in Charleston, S. C. -- Burning of the Second College and Light Street Church -- Death of Edgar Mills -- Hammett's Failure -- Asbury rests -- His Sufferings -- Death of Jarratt -- Lee in the South -- Asbury's Letter to him -- Methodist Unity -- Coke and Asbury -- Lee in Charleston His Birthday Reflections -- Presentiments -- Lee and Slavery -- His Hard Fare -- His Humor -- Examples -- His Success -- An Extraordinary Quarterly Meeting -- Great Prosperity -- Camp-Meetings -- Coke's Visits CHAPTER XIII = PART 48 METHODISM IN THE SOUTH, CONTINUED: 1796 -- 1804 Prosperity of the Church -- Great Revivals -- Singular Conversion of Captain Burton -- George Clark and Isaac Smith Pioneering -- Strong Men of the South -- George Dougherty -- His Superior Talents -- An Example -- He is Mobbed and "Pumped" in Charleston -- His Death -- William Watters re-enters the Itinerancy -- The Watters Family -- William Gassaway -- His Singular Conversion -- Victory over an Enemy -- He calls out Bishop Capers -- Enoch George -- William McKendree goes to the West -- Tobias Gibson goes to the Southwest -- William Ryland -- His Eloquence -- Chaplain to Congress -- General Jackson -- James Smith -- Statistical View of Southern Methodism CHAPTER XIV = PART 49 METHODISM IN THE MIDDLE AND NORTHERN STATES: 1796 -- 1804 Great Religious Interest -- Its Excesses -- It extends over the Nation -- Senator Bassett -- Asbury -- Ware -- Dr. Rush's Interest for Methodism -- Dr. Chandler's Services -- Solomon Sharp's Character -- A Practical Joke -- Thomas, Smith attempts Suicide -- Becomes a Useful Preacher -- Curious Fact in his Ministry -- A Solemn Wager -- Persecution -- Restoration of a Decayed Church -- Henry Boehm -- Boehm's Chapel -- Boehm Itinerating in Maryland -- The Ennals and Airy Families -- Singular Introduction of Methodism into Annamessex -- Boehm among the Germans of Pennsylvania -- Sketch of Jacob Gruber -- Peter Vannest -- Thomas Burch -- The "Albright" Methodists -- Dr. Power's German Translation of the Methodist Discipline
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Berkeley County, Va. I did so; but
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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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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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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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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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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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importance to the preaching of the
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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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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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on them, for they were both infirm
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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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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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