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In 1773, Methodism began to take root in Fairfax county, Va. Preaching was established at Mr. William Adams', and several people were brought to know God in different parts of the county, through the labors of Messrs. Owen, Strawbridge, and others. There was a strong expectation entertained by some of the preachers that Mr. Wesley would visit this country in 1773. But a letter from him to Mr. Asbury informed him "That the time of his coming over to America was not yet, being detained by the building of the City Road Chapel." Mr. Wesley, no doubt, would have visited this country if the quarrel between the Colonists and the Crown had not resulted in the Revolution. While Mr. Wesley was engaged in building the City Road Chapel in London, Mr. Whitefield's orphan House, founded in 1740, was burned down. The last time that Mr. Whitefield dined in it he said, "This house was built for God, and cursed be the man that puts it to any other use." The institution did not succeed as its founder expected -- it has long ceased to exist, except in history. Mr. Boardman, in the beginning of January, 1774, sailed from New York for England, where he continued his itinerant labors in connection with Mr. Wesley, until 1782, in which year he died in Ireland. He had a presentiment of his approaching end; he told his wife, when he left Limerick, that he should die in Cork, whither he was going. As he knew that he was ready, he had no fears of death. He died suddenly, of apoplexy. He was a fine specimen of a man, of a gentleman, of a Christian, and of a preacher. The following is an epitaph that Mr. Wesley prepared for his tombstone:-- "With zeal for God, with love of souls inspired; Nor awed by dangers, nor by labors tired, Boardman in distant worlds proclaimed the word To multitudes, turned them to his Lord. But soon the bloody waste of war he mourns, And, loyal, from rebellion's seat returns: Nor yet at home, on eagle's pinions flies, And in a moment soars to paradise." Mr. Pilmoor, in company with Mr. Boardman, also embarked for England, where he labored a few years with Mr. Wesley, and then came back to America and took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, spending the remainder of his life in New York and Philadelphia. In the evening of his life his mind became somewhat impaired. At one time, when Brother David Lake took him a number of Dr. Clarke's Commentary, to which he was a subscriber, he seemed to have forgotten all about asking, "Who is Dr. Clarke? I can write as good a commentary on the Bible as Dr. Clarke can; I don't want it." At another time he came up town where he had a lot, and got into a watchman's box, calling it his house, and refused to be ejected until his house keeper came and led him home. He died in 1821, in an advanced age, having preached the gospel for almost sixty years -- and is buried at St. Paul's Church, in Third street below Walnut, in this city; the tablet to his memory is in the church. His talents, as a preacher, were regarded by many as superior; and at death he left a large circle of friends.
A HISTORY OF THE RISE OF METHODISM IN AMERICA by John Lednum CHAPTER 17 In January, 1774, Mr. Rankin being in Philadelphia, remarks, "I never felt the weather so intensely cold. The Delaware was frozen over, and the Jersey people came over on the ice to market. Such a strange sight I never beheld before." American weather, as well as American scenery, was new and surprising to him. Soon after he went to New York. He returned to Philadelphia, and held Conference. May 25, 1774, the second Conference began in Philadelphia, and lasted three days. The Minutes show ten circuits, and eighteen preachers to serve them. Mr. Asbury was stationed in New York; at Trenton, N.J., W. Watters; on Greenwich, N.J., Philip Ebert; Philadelphia; Mr. Rankin; Chester, Pa., Daniel Ruff and Joseph Yearbry; Kent, Md., Abraham Whitworth; Baltimore Circuit, George Shadford, Edward Drumgole, Richard Webster, and Robert Lindsay; Frederick Circuit, Philip Gatch and William Duke; Norfolk, John King; Brunswick, Va., Robert Williams, John Wade, Isaac Rollin, and Samuel Spragg. The preceding year had been one of prosperity: and, as the fruit of ministerial labor, there was an increase of forty-two in New York; in New Jersey, fifty-seven; in Pennsylvania, sixty; in Maryland, five hundred and sixty-three; and in Virginia, two hundred and ninety-one. Maryland had more than doubled its number, and Virginia had nearly trebled its members. The increase was nine hundred and thirteen, and the whole number was two thousand and seventy-three. The work in Jersey was divided into two circuits; and Chester, in Pa., Kent and Frederick, in Md., and Brunswick, in Va., appear on the Minutes as new circuits. Mr. Asbury labored in New York for six months, and then spent three months in Philadelphia. Mr. Watters, in May of this year, for the first time, attended Conference in Philadelphia; and for the first time preached in St. George's, before a Conference of preachers. He was appointed to Trenton Circuit, where he labored usefully this year, with the exception of one quarter, when he changed with Daniel Ruff, and preached on Chester Circuit. While here, he was useful in healing a division in the young society in Goshen, Chester county. Abraham Rollin, from Patapsco Neck, in Maryland, who had a wish to be a traveling preacher, but, on account of his extreme roughness and ranting, could not obtain the sanction of the Methodists, in the summer of this year came into Chester Circuit, and, having made a party in this society, endeavored to settle himself upon them as their minister. He had influenced some of the most wealthy of the society -- George Smith, in particular. They were holding their secret meetings to carry out their plan. Mrs. Smith had had a dream, in which she saw Mr. Watters, before her eyes beheld him, as one sent to deliver them from imposition; and, as soon as she saw him, she recognized him as the person she had seen in her dream. The result
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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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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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comfort in his confinement. Never w
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In North West Fork, Sussex county,
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of their head men, moving out of th
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Bartholomew Ennalls were early Meth
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Barratt's Chapel is memorable on ac
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her husband, professed and exemplif
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When camp meetings were adopted by
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Herman first settled in the town of
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Yeargan, Henry Willis, Francis Poyt
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a Biography of William Adams printe
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meetings), Mr. Boehm and five or si
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His twenty-third appointment was, u
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In 1780, in Monmouth county, Job Th
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appears that it did as to the time
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cause of his wretchedness; it was g
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most of the early itinerants, had r
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A society was formed in the vicinit
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learned to sing Light Street to the
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Virginia. Benjamin Boydstone and hi
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German Presbyterian minister; also
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His next appointment was at Howard'
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Mr. Garrettson continued in this ci
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charge of the work in Georgia. He b
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Rev. George W. Walker, of the Cinci
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principle was, that there was no fa
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While in North Carolina, his accomm
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chapel. After paying his first visi
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doing on the circuit. Brother E. wa
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to the cook; she loves to hear the
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He observes, "I rode down in the Ne
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men preach the truth!" The father l
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almost all worldly business. In Gen
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his name appeared in the Minutes. H
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His sixth appointment was at Mr. Wo
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and some were fully awakened." He w
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cause of Christ -- how much Mr. W.
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In this unhappy state she continued
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evil of her, and hated her company.
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time, to distribute his well tried
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On his way to his circuit, he met w
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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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