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

took her place at court. She was but the tool of Harley, secretary of state, whose coadjutor was Henry
St. John, afterwards Lord Bolingbroke. They succeeded in prostrating the Whigs, and placing the
Tories in power. Several of the leading Whigs came to this country, bringing with them their hatred
of monarchy. Of these, we name the Claypole and Halifax families. Oliver Cromwell's favorite
daughter as married to a Claypole; and the Claypoles among the early settlers of Philadelphia were
descended from Oliver Cromwell.
Fairfax was opposed to the Stewarts; Lord Fairfax commanded an army in the civil war which
prostrated the power of Charles I. They were identified with the Whigs and Presbyterians. This
historical sketch may furnish the reason why a descendant of Lord Fairfax settled in Virginia, and
took up a vast tract of country -- one county bearing his name to the present time.
12 Sketch of the Rev. Philip Gatch, p. 554.
13 Abridged from Mr. Wesley's Missionaries to America.
14 Dr. Tilden a local preacher.
15 General Washington's mother was a Ball, according to our recollection.
16 See the print that hangs up in many houses, called "The Deathbed of Mr. Wesley," in which Mr.
Rankin stands near the dying saint.
THE LAST WITNESS GONE. -- Those who have seen the large engraving of the "Deathbed of
Wesley," will recollect the figure of the little boy who stands near the foot of the bed, and who, at
the time the picture was engraved, was the only person living who was present on that solemn
occasion. The following obituary from the last number of the London Watchman shows that he too
has now passed away: --
Oct. 25th, "At Chesterfield, in his 68th year, James Roe Rogers, retired revenue officer. He was
the son of the late Rev. James and Hester Ann Rogers. For thirty-five years he was a useful and
consistent member of the Methodist connection. He was present with his parents at the death of the
late venerable John Wesley, and was the last survivor of the party who witnessed that impressive
scene."
17 J. K, the old Presbyterian friend who allowed the Methodists to preach in his house at Cedar
Creek, in Sussex county, Del., and to raise a Methodist society, which was the germ of the Slaughter
Neck Methodist meeting, where the Shockleys and Hickmans -- names honorably connected the
Methodism -- as, also, others, was not the only one we ever heard of who kept his coffin by him. We
have heard of one or two others who did the same thing. One who went to the Western country,
carrying his coffin with him; and, not liking the country, returned, bringing back with him the
"narrow house." Another, whose name was Adams, who was a very pious man, living above the fear
of death, who kept his coffin under the bed he slept in, making it a repository for such articles as
were proper to be kept in it until his body occupied it. The inquiry might be made, whether, if it were
a more general practice for the living to keep the house that the body is to be the tenant of when the