. The history of Methodism. Baltimore inflamed with a martialspirit which he trusted God would ••overrule. It was soonafter this that, having heard of the decision of his brethrento retire, he made his famous resolve not to abandon sucha field forgatheringsouls to for the threethousand souls whodesire to committhemselves to ourcare, he noblydeclares, I am de-termined by thegrace of God not toleave them, let theconsequence bewhat it may. This resolutionnever warlike prep-arations at Norfolkonly warned him to watch and fightagainst sin and Satan. When the Baltimoreans were
. The history of Methodism. Baltimore inflamed with a martialspirit which he trusted God would ••overrule. It was soonafter this that, having heard of the decision of his brethrento retire, he made his famous resolve not to abandon sucha field forgatheringsouls to for the threethousand souls whodesire to committhemselves to ourcare, he noblydeclares, I am de-termined by thegrace of God not toleave them, let theconsequence bewhat it may. This resolutionnever warlike prep-arations at Norfolkonly warned him to watch and fightagainst sin and Satan. When the Baltimoreans were alarmed, in thespring of 1776, by the rumor of the approach of a British warship he exclaimed: Alas for fallen man! He fears hisfellow-creatures, whose breath is in their nostrils, but fearsnot him who is able to destroy body and soul in hell. Ofhimself he repeated: My desire is to live in love and peacewith all men, to do them no harm, but all the good I I can leave all the little affairs of this confused world. FROM THE COPPERPLATE bv hOPwOOD. LORD NORTH. 174 American Methodism to those men to whose province they pertain, and can gocomfortably on my proper business of instrumentally savingmy own soul and those that hear me. The rumors of battlesand slaughter gave him some concern, but he knew theAmericans too well to expect a British triumph. What canthey expect to accomplish, he exclaims, without an armyof two or three hundred thousand men ? and even thenthere would be but little prospect of their success. Reports occasionally came to him that this and that brotherwere quitting the field, yet he could never once read his dutyin that light. His plain mission was to stay, and, havingdone all, to stand. To Benson, in England, Asbury expressed the generallanguage of the American people and preachers, that thosepreachers from Europe who were dissatisfied with the meas-ures of the country had better go home. Though he made nocomment on public policies, he could not sup
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