. The history of Methodism. nfected with skepticism to an alarming degree. There werebut two professing Christians among the students of Prince-ton about 1784, and ten years later it was the custom forYale students to call themselves by the names of the noto-rious infidels ofEngland andFrance who weretheir heroes. As the FrenchRevolution pro-gressed societieswere formed in thiscountry for propa-gating its princi-ples, including itshostility to Chris-tianity. Bairdsays:Wild and vagueexpectations wereeverywhere enter-tained, especiallyamong the young,of a new order ofthings about to commence, in
. The history of Methodism. nfected with skepticism to an alarming degree. There werebut two professing Christians among the students of Prince-ton about 1784, and ten years later it was the custom forYale students to call themselves by the names of the noto-rious infidels ofEngland andFrance who weretheir heroes. As the FrenchRevolution pro-gressed societieswere formed in thiscountry for propa-gating its princi-ples, including itshostility to Chris-tianity. Bairdsays:Wild and vagueexpectations wereeverywhere enter-tained, especiallyamong the young,of a new order ofthings about to commence, in which Christianity would belaid aside as an obsolete system. Outside of the pulpit the educated classes were generallyfriendly to the radical ideas, and the pamphlets of ThomasPaine and his French contemporaries were read with equaleagerness in the stockades of Kentucky and by the sons ofNew England deacons. The private letters, newspapers, and court records of thisperiod prove that the twenty years following the war was a. REV. JOHN CARROLL. Archbishop of Baltimore. The First Roman Catholic bishopin the United Slates. In the Name of Liberty 265 time of the lowest general morality in American Churches lamented conditions which they seemed power-less to control. In 1779 the Presbyterian synod publicly be-
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