. Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . the year 1847 John Sauter entered Buffalo, and be-gan preaching in his own house. At the very beginningthe Lord poured out his Spirit, and conversions Mr. Sauter left the charge in October, 1848, heleft a society of thirty-eight, and a convenient church,forty by fifty-five, and every thing in an encouragingcondition. From Buffalo he went to Rochester, wherehe met with similar success. He was thus the founder Founding and Growth of German Missions, 269 of three of our important eastern missions—Newark,Buff
. Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . the year 1847 John Sauter entered Buffalo, and be-gan preaching in his own house. At the very beginningthe Lord poured out his Spirit, and conversions Mr. Sauter left the charge in October, 1848, heleft a society of thirty-eight, and a convenient church,forty by fifty-five, and every thing in an encouragingcondition. From Buffalo he went to Rochester, wherehe met with similar success. He was thus the founder Founding and Growth of German Missions, 269 of three of our important eastern missions—Newark,Buffalo, and Rochester. In the year 1846, Williams-burg, L. I., became a mission, and Poughkeepsie, N. work had now, in fact, covered the land, North,East, South, and West. At the division of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, which was consummated at this time,our German work in the far South necessarily becameidentified with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,but our work in Missouri chiefly adhered to the Meth-odist Episcopal Church, and as we had no longer a. iraer oiatMAN ohubch, oautobnia. Missouri Conference, this work became a district of theIllinois Conference. Our sketch has not reached the period when our 18 II 2/0 Methodist Episcopal Missions. German work began on the Pacific coast. Of its early-history reports were very meager, if there were, indeed,much to report. In 1856 no members were reported,but there were three missionaries in the field, and thereal estate was valued at §17,000. Two years afterwardthere were but eight members reported, thirty-sevenprobationers, and four churches, valued at $17,000,under the same number of missionaries. Within threeor four years the German work on the coast considerablyadvanced, and promising missions were established inSan Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Stockton, Los An-geles, and Portland. S. Literature and Institutions of GermanMethodism. The origin of the Christliche Apologete has alreadybeen noticed, in the chronologi
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