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1892-93, $13,922.21 1893-94, $14,588.85; 1894-95, $12,365.06; 1895-96, $11,384.67. Total, $52,260.79. Disbursed for all purposes, $52,490.72. The financial depression of the times is apparent from the falling oft of receipts, affecting most of the religious denominations. Renewed efforts are being made to stimulate the Church to higher things for foreign missions. At the annual meeting of the Board held at Westminster, Md., May 4-5, 1898, the following "Survey of the Work" by Secretary Ogburn and Dr. F. T. Tagg was submitted. Committee on survey of the work report first the Japanese Conference is divided into three sub-districts, known as Yokohama, Nagoya, and Shizuoka. Yokohama reports 2 mission stations and 2 circuits, supplied by one foreign and 2 native pastors. There are 2 probationers and 258 members; 2 churches and 9 appointments; 12 Sunday-schools and 330 scholars; one Y. P. S. C. E. with 55 members; value of church property, $4500. Paid on pastor's salary, 156 yen; for current expenses, 59,049 yen; Sunday schools, 1395 yen; for all purposes, 420,929 yen. One circuit reports no members; two circuits report no churches. The Bluff building was sold and the money put into a night-school, of which brother Cairns is principal, but of which we have no other information. Nagoya has one mission station and 4 circuits, served by 2 foreign and 3 native pastors. There are 3 probationers and 62 members; one church, 9 appointments; 7 Sunday-schools, 285 scholars; one Y. P. S. C. E., 15 members; value of church property, $6600. Paid on pastor's salary, 33.18 yen; current expenses, 30.6 yen; for all purposes, 130,634 yen; 3 circuits report no members; 3 circuits report no churches. Nagoya college day-school, 44; average attendance, 28; night-school, 57; average attendance, 30; college residence. The dean of the seminary reports 4 students; value of college property is about 27,000 yen. Shizuoka has one mission station and 4 circuits, supplied by one foreign and 2 native pastors. There are 48 probationers and 63 members; 2 churches, 9 appointments; 6 Sunday-schools, 243 scholars; one parsonage; value of church property, $1330. Paid on current expenses, 21.35 yen; for all purposes, 36.02 yen; one circuit reports no members; 2 circuits report no churches. The W. F. M. Society have schools at Yokohama, with Miss M. M. Kuhns in charge, and one Bible woman. A school at Nagoya, with Miss A. L. Coates and Miss A. E. Lawrence in charge, and three Bible readers and one evangelist. There are two Bible readers and three evangelists at Shizuoka.
RESUME AND COMPARISON 1896 1897 GAIN LOSS Probationers...........................53 38 — 15 Members ............................290 323 33 — Parsonages.............................1 1 — — Churches ..............................4 5 — 1 Appointments .........................31 29 — 2 Sunday-schools ........................20 25 5 — Scholars .............................932 916 — 16 Christian Endeavorers ...................99 70 — 29 Paid on pastors' salaries.............. $79.85 $94.59 $14.74 — Collected for all expenses ........... $255.85 $204.23 $38.38 — *************************************
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WESLEYAN HERITAGE Library M. E. Chu
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METHODIST REFORM Edward J. Drinkhou
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world over; as well as for contrast
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No pretension is made to literary s
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considered — The first missionary
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CHAPTER 19 1779-1781 — The "regul
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Was it mailed before or after he he
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the Methodist Societies, though thr
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The period from 1784 to 1792 will b
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ENDNOTES 1 Otherwise called the Pol
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His private Journal, which came int
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with the hope that, whenever such a
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ENDNOTES 1 Whitehead's "Life of the
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His father's health failing in 1734
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The period from 1739 to 1744 was a
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1 "Mutual Rights," Vol. 1. No. 21,
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places. Stevens says the third Conf
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were necessary for an enduring orga
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chapel seats. Breaking bread in the
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severely, but not unjustly. Preachi
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ut for the children, the boys only
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leadership of the most self-asserti
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deliverance from a "Methodist curat
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sit apart, which had been violated
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a deed of this kind, that I have go
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arguments, except as it relates to
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as, it was, no doubt, sincere. The
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ordained Henry Moore and Thomas Ran
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Church. Upon this the meeting was a
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society in Plymouth. He was a man,
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nothing else save the Arminian Maga
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no longer." He was seriously sick d
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eached 2828. The membership was 76,
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* See Appendix to Dr. Kewley's "Inq
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He said soon after, "I will get up,
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short, and the design itself was sp
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week of Wesley's death he wrote: "M
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stewards, the admission and expulsi
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wrote like a mountain torrent. Stro
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present purpose reads: "But when on
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y the calendar, must be used wherev
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presidency the Conference would not
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1 Asbury's " Journal," Vol. II. p.1
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HISTORY OF METHODIST REFORM Synopti
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Commentary is an imperishable monum
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parent bodies will the mission of t
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ENDNOTES 1 She was a Friend, but he
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constantly devising new plans for i
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urst out, and one Daniel Shubetham
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insulted the representatives of the
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courtesy due him, was thought too p
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like Wesley, betrayed his ignorance
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delicate woman, died and was buried
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1 "History of Methodism," Vol. III.
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The respective theories are working
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or usages which had been most assai
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the ministry, its devotion and libe
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It is necessary to retrace steps to
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to interfere with the internal affa
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showed, in feasting at high dinners
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ENDNOTE 1 The plan has since been a
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into evil ways. Barbara Heck kept a
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which was the vogue of a large numb
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attended the ministry of both, conv
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thing which I seek, a circulation o
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ENDNOTES 1 Bangs' "History of the M
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Philadelphia, George Shadford (to c
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Lednum has preserved the name of Jo
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y Methodists as a constant prayerfu
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the episcopal form of church govern
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1784, and he had regular work. He r
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of our national independence, who b
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strength of Methodism was in Maryla
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and their children, and they procee
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to men whose opinions disagreed wit
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Why do the printed Minutes take no
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ENDNOTES 1 Stevens says, "During th
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of our divisions; it was transcribe
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Mr. Wesley generally held a Confere
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under the necessity of abiding by i
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the Methodists. At twenty years of
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His references to the Conference of
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landly said, 'He is hard on us.' As
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and good sense so far predominated
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on so new a plan, he afterward susp
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of it are in the closing suggestion
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employing the terms "superintendent
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to be a mere formality, likely to r
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If any one will point out a more ra
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monotony, the "Pastorals" of Virgil
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ace, Eclipse is first, and that put
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next day, Sabbath, he reached, with
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esumed his labors, and died in Phil
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[6] is the material point. There is
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emarkable when it is considered tha
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our societies in the United States,
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eady to break with Wesley at any op
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ENDNOTES 1 The reader is apprised t
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minutes as printed. To that portion
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steps taken by Mr. Wesley and mysel
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een involuntary, wrested by the ove
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see Asbury open a Methodist meeting
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obliged to acknowledge that I acted
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intimates the desire they had of my
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under present circumstances, to gra
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ENDNOTES 1 Dr. Scudder, in his "Ame
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feet in length and 40 feet in bread
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The missionary propagandists must n
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interference was no doubt well know
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it ? Wesley, when he received the a
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9; at Holstein, May 13; at Amelia,
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will determine sufficient in a man
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crosses the mountains — "the firs
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The preachers having had great diff
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Eleven Conferences were appointed f
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But in one point, my dear brother,
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The letter itself now calls for ana
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continued to this day in the Method
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his testimony. Some writer during t
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it. Besides, even allowing that Cok
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1 "Life of Wesley," Vol. II. pp. 25
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segregation complained of, is inten
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Now cull from O'Kelly's "Apology" s
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In his pastoral relation he raised
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Council, is proving too much for ev
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Even so partisan a writer as Rev. D
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of his name in 1786, the fact that
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change of environment enables them
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[9] It will be discovered that ther
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[12] not mailed there, for the bish
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6 In the Dickins minutes of 1795 th
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are men of very considerable abilit
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Wesley's knowledge, and without his
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Wesley, otherwise I shall despair o
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In addition to these letters, the o
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1 "Defense of the Truth," p.23. END
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turning to Mr. Hutchinson, he said:
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obedience in one over another of hi
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Lee affirms that, during this event
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een received into full connection c
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in a resolution which Lee gives in
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founded 'We are far gone into poper
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subjection the membership. To this
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— he was receiving support from t
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Portsmouth. Regretting his sudden e
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eing a lay-revolt, that preachers w
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No such sleuth-hound can be let loo
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which measures were taken to triply
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Methodists, so in 1801 O'Kelly publ
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when actively employed, and provisi
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etween Front and Second streets, an
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in the society even stripling preac
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is desperately broken, yet he keeps
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conducted well." He did not offer h
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of the general conference, and in t
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. I leave you to make a prudent use
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his words are eulogistically true.
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until finally the illegality of it
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who had been elected Book Agent to
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interred under the altar of the Wes
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ENDNOTES 1 One was held at Cabbin C
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affirmed nor denied the truth of th
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3. Each Annual Conference respectiv
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The smoke of the argumentative batt
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find its Constitution, if any there
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views. Such apologies for his after
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ENDNOTES 1 Boehm says there was pre
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those of the Methodist Protestant C
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to his death a bosom friend and cou
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date — " We have ridden two hundr
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Eutaw Street church pulpit. On the
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disputed. It never has been called
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