The junior history of Methodism [electronic resource]: for young people, study classes in Epworth League and the general reader . ew weeks was holding pub-lic meetings. His exhortations to sinners were of suchpower that many fell to the floor crying aloud for lived in stirring times, and had his trials, but hewas made of heroic material. Devoted to the Americanside during the Revolution, he was yet conscientiouslyopposed to war. The oath of allegiance then adminis-tered in Maryland required a willingness to take uparms, and this Garrettson refused to do. He, however,went on preaching,
The junior history of Methodism [electronic resource]: for young people, study classes in Epworth League and the general reader . ew weeks was holding pub-lic meetings. His exhortations to sinners were of suchpower that many fell to the floor crying aloud for lived in stirring times, and had his trials, but hewas made of heroic material. Devoted to the Americanside during the Revolution, he was yet conscientiouslyopposed to war. The oath of allegiance then adminis-tered in Maryland required a willingness to take uparms, and this Garrettson refused to do. He, however,went on preaching, being continually persecuted as dis-loyal. In Dorchester County he was arrested by amob and thrown into jail, but he preached through thewindow. After Maryland and Virginia he came into HEROIC METHODISM. 63 Delaware. Here his arrest was ordered. The magis-trate met him in the road and beat him with a club forno other offense but sitting quietly on his horse andlooking at him. The officer feared at first that he hadkilled the preacher, as he lay insensible for some he revived he began to pray for his assailant and. Preaching in Prison (Cambridge, to exhort him to be saved. The officer was nowthoroughly overcome, and said, Mr. Garrettson, I willtake you in my carriage wherever you want to is only one of many such experiences in the life ofthis hero. 64 JUNIOR HISTORY OF METHODISM. Thus were these good men persecuted, but they tri-umphed gloriously. Benjamin Abbott was a hero of heroes. Born onLong Island, New York, in 1732, he spent his early lifein Philadelphia as an apprentice to a hatter. He wasa careless boy and a very wicked man until he was fortyyears old, when he was soundly converted. He hadbeen brought up a Calvinist, and when conviction seizedhim he thought he was a reprobate and could neverbe saved. He came near committing suicide, but wasfinally led to surrender to Christ, and then, he says: My heart felt as light as a bird. I arose and called
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