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eing asleep, he climbed up the high wall, and clambered over the spike palisades, and made his escape. Just as the cock crew for day he was discovered by the sentinel, who mistook him for a comrade, and let him pass. At this time he felt a conviction, which was communicated to him in an unusual manner, that his wife prayed for him; and, during his absence, his wife was comforted with an assurance that she should see her husband again. Escaping thus, he made the best of his way without interruption, until the evening, when he heard a gun fire at some distance behind him -presently another. His pursuers had found his track in the woods, and were after him. He strove to run, but was too weak. Another gun still nearer -- he made what speed he could, and when he came to places where he made no track he made zigzag courses to deceive them and give him time to get ahead. But, as they were many, they would find his track again. Thus he toiled on until seven guns were fired -- the last within two or three hundred yards of him. His heart began to fail; he thought he was gone, but resolved to labor onward as long as he had life; and now his pursuers had crossed his track and were ahead of him. -- Taking advantage of this circumstance, he turned out of the path, letting the Indians, who were behind, tread in the footsteps of those before. In the direction that he was now going he came to a path that led to a settlement of the whites. Not keeping this long, he went round the head of a ravine and laid himself down, concluding, that if his track was again discovered, he would be favored by the darkness. The Indians got his track twice, but did not overtake him. He went on in the dark as well as he could, sometimes feeling the bushes with his hands, and often falling down among the rocks from weakness. Having found smoother ground, he lay down until next morning. His enemies were still pursuing him. He had not left his hard bed long before he heard two guns fired off. Coming to a hill where no marks of footsteps could be traced, he steered his course for Bedford, and came on a training path, which he kept. Five days he lived on acorns; afterwards he found some wild cherries; but lo! while he was eating them, up came an Indian, who asked him where he was going; he said, "To the Delaware." The Indian, taking him by the hand, gave a whoop, and other Indians were around him. By these he was kept a prisoner for some time. He was bold and active, and cooked for them. By his cleverness, he gained the favor of the captain, who praised him for doing everything like an Indian. Here he had more than he needed to eat. The captain was careful to secure him every night, by making him lie in a corner, where he drew a cord over hoop-poles, and tied deer's hoofs to the end, that if Williams pulled open the poles they would rattle the deer's hoofs, and strike the captain's face, and wake him. After Williams had been with these Indians some length of time, they went to war, leaving him behind to provide deer for the squaws. He at last found an opportunity of escaping, which he improved, and once more arrived safe at his own home, and embraced his wife." The above is part of the experience of one of the old Methodists, on old Berkley Circuit. Surely this man had seen enough of the Providence of God to enable him to put his trust in Christ, after he was enlightened by the gospel. At his house the Methodists preached, and had a society, he was a faithful man, and his wife was a pious woman. From the foot of the Allegheny, Mr. Asbury turned his face towards the east, holding quarterly meeting at Leesburg, and at Charles Penn's, near Seneca, this side of the Potomac. Coming to Micah Dorsey's, at Elkridge, he was seized with his old affliction, the inflammatory sore throat. Here he had the attendance of that eminent physician, Dr. Pew. After he was somewhat restored, he moved on preaching at Jones' on the Manor, then paid his first visit to Little York, where Mr. Garrettson had planted Methodism the previous spring: here he met Mr. Ranckle, once a Methodist, but now a
German Presbyterian minister; also Mr. Waggoner of the same church. Having preached at E. Jones' in Uwchlan, Chester county, at Benson's Chapel, at the Valley or the Grove, and in Philadelphia, he was, for the first time, at Cloud's Chapel, at quarterly meeting, where he had his first personal acquaintance with James Barton, then a public speaker among the Friends, who bore his testimony in love feast, "that God was with the Methodists." About this time he became a Methodist, and a preacher among them. When Dr. Coke saw him three years after this, he called him "a precious man." We next find Mr. Asbury holding the great fall quarterly meeting, at Barratt's Chapel, where twelve preachers, and about a thousand people, were assembled together. During the year 1781, Blackiston's Chapel in Kent county, Del., was erected. The plan of the house, which was 40 by 60 feet, was furnished by Mr. Asbury. It was for a number of years the largest Methodist Chapel on the Peninsula exceeding in size Barratt's Chapel. Some large and powerful meetings were held at it: it was a popular place. After other chapels sprung up around it, it was found to be larger than was necessary, and its size was reduced. A few years since a new house was built. The original trustees were, -- Benjamin Blackiston, Abraham Parsons, Luke Howard, Richard Lockwood, William Kirkley, James Hall, Thomas Wilds, James Stephenson, and Richard Shaw.
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WESLEYAN HERITAGE Library M. E. Chu
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A HISTORY OF THE RISE OF METHODISM
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CHAPTER 12 Robert Williams in Virgi
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CHAPTER 26 First Conference in Balt
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CHAPTER 38 Mr. Garrettson introduce
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CHAPTER 53 Methodism introduced int
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When the old log chapel gave place
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him and told him he must refrain fr
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"1. In the year 1736, it pleased Go
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approached him I said, Well, grandf
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Methodist preaching was introduced
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held out promises of easily acquire
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six years he had made no public eff
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When Wesley Chapel was being erecte
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When he came to Albany, N. Y., abou
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in advanced years, considerable pro
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Germantown, Trenton, and Princeton.
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to bring their first church in this
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who daily pass by this house think
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In placing before the reader such n
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From the Rev. Thomas Ware's Life we
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Captain Webb having introduced Meth
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Mr. Joseph Pilmoor, on arriving in
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In the same region, and about this
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At this time there was not a more v
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The operation of the Holy Spirit wa
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In company with Samuel Selby, Mr. A
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These seven preachers were, Webb, B
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In the latter end of July, 1772, Mr
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J. Presbury's, and, after preaching
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out that her experience was identic
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never realized before the condition
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my mind, and that he would give me
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Deveau. The Rev. Sylvester Hutchins
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the Lord's day. His father made him
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appeared to be as plain to me as if
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stature, and of a very youthful app
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About this time Joseph Taylor, who
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shades of itinerancy in by-gone day
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"Nor was Col. North less distinguis
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At Mr. Hinson's, Mr. Asbury notices
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seventy years old. He then had two
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treacherous, and that the object wa
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my refusal the tavern keeper whispe
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The Ellis family was an important f
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From the Conference of 1775, two pr
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"Those that were in waiting hailed
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it does not appear that the Methodi
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to the Saviour, while she was yet y
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Lord would raise him up. He recover
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told him there was a dispensation o
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Mr. Downs asked Mr. Chew if he were
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more than conversing on the things
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Mr. Watters, from the Conference in
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and Moore; Crump, Price, Pegram, Pa
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Methodists, and after living a few
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ooks and tracts to him, to be distr
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several hundreds found the peace of
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Mr. T. Davidson, and his wife Mrs.
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the more zealous Christians are in
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violent persecutor, ran into the ho
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were put in a large vault under the
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opened his mission in America as ea
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headwaters of the Nanticoke, near B
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the next day. After lying in a swam
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He continued in this exercise, maki
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Garrettson showed him his sin in th
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conviction for sin as the result of
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meeting, and lasted six hours -- en
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Mr. Richard Ivy was a native of Sus
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There were a few Methodists in New
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Brown's sister being in the company
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of creature happiness. Mr. Abbott s
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His clear credentials God's own fin
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een instrumental in the conversion
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In this golden age, when different
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Mr. Thomas Ware, having been recomm
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since abandoned this apostolic plan
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preachers found their way into it.
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prospering; and especially among th
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to Long Island, until he resolved i
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When age and infirmity obliged him
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intercourse with the Methodists, th
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On Saturday, 25th, being the second
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of them has been tried; as to untri
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out of the house with airs of disre
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Mr. Russel was raised in the Church
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Carpenter's son, the late Rev. Char
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In 1852, James Smith, a preacher fo
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enlarged and improved in 1835. The
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In 1855, the Central Church was fou
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in her mind, "Be not forgetful to e
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took her place at court. She was bu
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The new brick M. E. Church in Smyrn
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