. The history of Methodism. tiful andadorned with personal graces. His amiable, heavenly, andcourteous carriage was such as to make him the delight ofhis acquaintances. He was a man of fortitude; he appearedto fear no danger when duty was plain, believing that he whowalks uprightly walks safely. Bangs declares that his dis-tinguished characteristic was a meekness and modesty ofspirit which, united with simplicity of intention and gravityof deportment, commended him as a pattern worthy of imita-tion. Learned he was not, save in one Book and in thethings of the Spirit, but he was utterly unworld
. The history of Methodism. tiful andadorned with personal graces. His amiable, heavenly, andcourteous carriage was such as to make him the delight ofhis acquaintances. He was a man of fortitude; he appearedto fear no danger when duty was plain, believing that he whowalks uprightly walks safely. Bangs declares that his dis-tinguished characteristic was a meekness and modesty ofspirit which, united with simplicity of intention and gravityof deportment, commended him as a pattern worthy of imita-tion. Learned he was not, save in one Book and in thethings of the Spirit, but he was utterly unworldly, and hadthat purity of heart which opens heaven to the spiritual aged Christian who had heard him in youth rememberedIn his dying day with what power he could stir an audiencewhen preaching on personal holiness. Stevens says, with 284 American Methodism his usual discrimination, Richard Whatcoat was one of thesaintliest men in the early itinerancy of Methodism. The subsequent vacillations of Thomas Vasey have made. REV. THOMAS ordained companion of Coke and Whatcoat. him a less heroic figure than his colleagues among the Metho-dist pioneers. But his character was not without had been early left an orphan, but was the ward anddestined heir of a wealthy and childless uncle. In the faceof his guardians displeasure he had joined the Methodists, Rev. Thomas Vasey 285 and had turned his back on the world and the delights ofwealth by becoming a Wesleyan preacher. He was an itiner-ant of nine years service when the Macedonian call came tothe preachers at Leeds and touched his sense of duty. Hevounteered, was accepted, and with Whatcoat received ordi-nation at Wesleys hands, at Bristol, in the first days of Sep-tember. He sailed with the others two weeks later for thewestern world. After two years of faithful service in theitinerancy there he seems to have wavered in his faith inthe validity of his orders. Bishop White, of Philadelphia, ofthe newly org
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