. The history of Methodism. yed, some wept. Hadit been a house of our own, he wrote, I should not havebeen surprised to see the windows broken. The NewHaven divines were cold and distant. President Stiles andothers heard his sermon, but no one had a hand for thepreacher. With the interests of the Methodist schools on hisheart, Asbury attended prayers in Yale College chapel; allwas gravity and decorum, but no one had the courtesy tospeak to this representative of more than sixty thousandChristians. Of course he felt the slight, but his remark iskindly. Should Cokesbury or Baltimore ever furnish
. The history of Methodism. yed, some wept. Hadit been a house of our own, he wrote, I should not havebeen surprised to see the windows broken. The NewHaven divines were cold and distant. President Stiles andothers heard his sermon, but no one had a hand for thepreacher. With the interests of the Methodist schools on hisheart, Asbury attended prayers in Yale College chapel; allwas gravity and decorum, but no one had the courtesy tospeak to this representative of more than sixty thousandChristians. Of course he felt the slight, but his remark iskindly. Should Cokesbury or Baltimore ever furnish the Asbury in New England 443 opportunity, I, in my turn, will requite their behavior bytreating them as friends, brethren, and gentlemen. The whole journey to Boston was a novel and unpleasantexperience for him. He \vix>te: I am unknown, and havesmall congregations, to which I may add a jar in sentiment,but I do not dispute ? and again, I feel that I am not amongmy own people, though I believe there are some who feai. FROM A WOODCUT Or 1763. VALE COLLEGE. THE CHAPEL AND CONNECTICUT their appearance at the time of Asburys first visit. God. Even in Boston only twenty or thirty came to hearhis opening sermon, though a great room had been title of Bishop was still an offense in the nostrils ofthe sons of the Puritans, and this plain apostle had to suspected that those who professed friendship for ushad been ashamed to spread the notice of the came the next evening, but the sinners in the streetswere annoyingly boisterous, owing, perhaps, to the loud- 444 American Methodism ness of my voice. He had no liberty, and determined toquit a place so inhospitable. When a stranger in Charles-ton, wicked Charleston, he exclaims, I was kindly invitedto eat and drink by many—here by none. A year later Lee joined a few poor people in society inBoston, the first in the city, on July 13, 1792. Lynn, with
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