A History Of The Rise Of Methodism In America - Media Sabda Org

were put in a large vault under the basement entry of St. George's Church; and whatever was found
of the mortal part of this good man and his daughter, after dwelling about forty years in the narrow
house, was put into this vault, while his headstone, with its inscription, is in the burying ground of
this church in Coates street.
Mr. Dickins death greatly affected Mr. Asbury, who remarked when he heard it at Mr. Sterlings,
in Burlington, "He was in person and affection another Thomas White to me for years past: I feared
death would divide us soon."
Mr. Dickins married Miss Elizabeth Yancey, near Halifax, North Carolina. She was in every
respect a helpmeet for him. She survived him until 1835, when she ended her days in Baltimore, at
the house of her son-in-law, Dr. Samuel Baker, who thus describes her meetness for heaven: --
"With lamp well trimmed and burning bright,
And loins begirt around,
In waiting posture long she stood,
To hear the welcome sound.
Born from above, and thither bent,
And longing for the skies,
How sweet the voice that charmed her ear,
And softly said, 'Arise!' "
She had been a Methodist for more than fifty years, and was past seventy years old at the time of
her death.
Mr. John Littlejohn was born in Penrith, Cumberland county, England, in 1756. When young he
was sent to a classical school for a while. His parents brought him to this country about 1767, and
settled in Maryland, but soon removed to Virginia. In 1772, Mr. Littlejohn's acquaintance began with
Methodists in Norfolk. In 1773 he removed to Alexandria, on the Potomac, where, under the
ministry of Mr. John King, he was fully awakened; and under the preaching and advice of Mr. John
Sigman, he sought for peace until he was able to say by faith, "My Lord and my God." In 1774 he
was one of the twelve persons that formed the original Methodist society in Alexandria, of which
he was soon made leader. Shortly after he began to exhort, and in 1775 began to preach. In 1776 he
commenced traveling with Mr. William Watters in Berkley. In 1777 he was received on trial, and
stationed on Baltimore Circuit. In 1778 he was sent to Kent, but on account of the persecution
against the preachers, and especially against the English, he felt it to be right for him to retire from
the work. In autumn of this year he married, and settled in Leesburg, Va., where he remained, filling
various offices of civil and religious society until 1818, when he removed to Louisville, Ky., and
finally to Logan county, in that state. In 1831 the Baltimore Conference readmitted him, and he was
transferred to the Kentucky Conference as a superannuated preacher. His mental energies and moral
resources, and especially his great eloquence as a public speaker, gave him an eminence in the pulpit
above most of his brethren. Had he continued in the itinerancy, his talents fitted him for any station
in the Church. As it was, he was comparatively unknown to thousands of Methodists. After a
Christian life of sixty years of exemplary usefulness in his sphere, he died, triumphantly, in 1836,
in his eightieth year.