History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org

the Methodists. At twenty years of age he began to preach and in 1782 his name appears in the
minutes. He rose to be a presiding elder, labored thirty-two years, and died suddenly during the night,
June 23, 1813. Woolman Hickson was a man of brilliant genius, but enfeebled with consumption.
He introduced Methodism into Brooklyn, L. I. After seven years' labor he died in the latter part of
1788, not leaving money enough to bury him. The Church gave him honorable sepulcher. He first
recognized the ability of Nicholas Snethen by appointing him leader of the class formed in Brooklyn.
Ira Harris, named but not sufficiently honored, was held in high esteem by Asbury, who thought that
if he had been educated he would have displayed abilities equal to Jefferson or Madison. He was
compelled to locate in 1795 as a married man. John Easter is called the Benjamin Abbott of the
South. His revival successes were wonderful. On Brunswick circuit the conversions are estimated
at from fifteen hundred to two thousand. William McKendree was one of them, as also Enoch
George. He located in 1792. He built a chapel on his own place in Sussex County, Va., and the
Conferences of 1782-83 were held there.
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