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

Mr. Edward Morris, of Virginia, continued in the work, maintaining a consistent character, until
1790, when he desisted.
Mr. James White labored successfully for eight years. His lively preaching was made a blessing
to many, while his holy life was a safe example for others to imitate. With holy resignation to
Heavens will, he died peacefully in 1789.
Mr. Jeremiah Lambert was a native of New Jersey; and although his opportunities for
improvement had been small, yet in the school of the itinerancy he soon became eminent in the
pulpit. When the Methodist Church was organized, he was ordained an elder for Antigua, in the West
Indies. In 1786 he died, much lamented by all who knew him.
Mr. David Abbott, son of Benjamin Abbott, was converted under the ministry of Philip Gatch,
while preaching in Jersey, in the latter end of 1773. After laboring as a local preacher for a few years,
he began to itinerate in 1781. In 1784 he stopped. In 1793, and in 1794, his name is in the Minutes:
this last year he was in New England, on New London Circuit; after this it appears he was altogether
local.
In 1796, Mr. Abbott was living at Upper Alloway's Creek, in Salem county, N. J.: at this time his
father made his triumphant exit from this world of affliction to glory, at his house. In the following
year, Bishop Asbury notices him as a merchant in Crosswick's, New Jersey. Through his subsequent
life he was faithful as a Christian. He has a son, by name David Abbott, who lives at Old Chester,
Pa., who has long walked in the steps of his father and grandfather.
[See reference to the following passage in the Introduction] Mr. Joseph Wyatt was a native of
Kent county, Del., raised near the present town of Smyrna. He embraced religion, and joined the
Methodists when they first came into his neighborhood in 1778. In 1779 he began to speak in public.
In 1780, Mr. Asbury employed him as a preacher; and, in 1781, his name appears in the Minutes. For
a few years he resided in Duck Creek Cross Roads, now Smyrna, where he carried on the
shoemaking business, and served also as an itinerant. Being a weakly man he broke down, and
located in 1788; but entered into the work again in 1790, and continued in it until about 1797. Mr.
Ware says:
In talent he was little inferior to any among, us; and in purity perhaps to none. His sermons were
short, but composed of the best materials, and delivered in the most pleasing manner." In the latter
end of his life he was chaplain to the legislature of Maryland, and resided in Annapolis for a number
of years. He was about the sixth traveling preacher from the state of Delaware.
Michael Ellis was born in Maryland in 1758, and embraced religion when fifteen years old, in
1773. In 1781, his name first appears in the Minutes as a traveling preacher. He was made a deacon
at the Christmas Conference, and ordained when Mr. Asbury was made Bishop. In 1788, he located
to take care of a family. Subsequently, he removed to Belmont county, Ohio. Having raised up an
interesting family, he re-entered the itinerancy again in 1810, in the Western Conference. While
laboring in Ohio, in 1814, among many others who were brought to the Saviour and united with the
Methodists, was a stiff Roman Catholic family by the name of Walker: the son, since known as the