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

fell; the man of the house, who had been a backslider, got restored; many prayers were sent up to
God, both by men and women. Our meeting continued three hours.
"Next morning, our love feast began at sunrise. The crowd was so great (at that early hour) that
we could not go round with the bread and water. It was supposed that as many were outside as in the
house. Brother Asbury opened the love feast, and bade the people speak. Many spoke powerfully,
and it was a precious time."
The love feast being ended, there was preaching and exhortation, attended with Divine power.
After a profitable waiting before the Lord, the meeting ended, and Mr. Abbott returned to his home
in Penn's Neck, in New Jersey.
The Methodists began to establish themselves in Radnor about the year 1780, or soon afterwards.
It is said that the first class was formed in 1782. The James, Gigers, and Whites, were the principal
families in this society. David and Isaac James were preachers. The former, if not the latter,
itinerated for some years. Mr. David James lived for several years in Trenton, and may have died
there. Dr. Isaac James is living, though old and feeble, in Bustleton, Philadelphia county. Several of
the individuals that formed the first class in Radnor, lived to a good old age: John Giger and his
companion were far advanced in life at the time of their death. Mary White, another of the original
class, who united with it in her thirteenth year, after honoring Methodism for more than seventy-one
years has been gathered home, in her eighty-fifth year. Between 1780 and 1790, the Radnor
Methodists built their first little chapel, which was rebuilt in 1832.
About this time, a meeting was established at Mr. Aaron Matson's, near the Seven Stars (now
Village Green). About 1797, a meeting house was built here, which has been known as Mount Hope;
this meeting sprung from Cloud's (now Bethel) meeting.
One of the old appointments on Chester Circuit, was at Romansville. Here, an old Friend gave
the Methodists a lot, which is still a place of sepulchers. In this neighborhood lived Jesse Woodward
and Brother Ball, both old Methodists. This meeting was substituted by the Laurel Chapel.