The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . is sad-dle-bags and mounting his horse, hemade direct for the north. On arrivingat Portsmouth, New Hampshire, two dayslater, on a Saturday, he asked for theuse of the court-house on the Sunday;but this was denied him. Not to bedaunted, he ascended on the Sundaymorning the steps at the doorway, andbegan to preach. From a doz
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . is sad-dle-bags and mounting his horse, hemade direct for the north. On arrivingat Portsmouth, New Hampshire, two dayslater, on a Saturday, he asked for theuse of the court-house on the Sunday;but this was denied him. Not to bedaunted, he ascended on the Sundaymorning the steps at the doorway, andbegan to preach. From a dozen personsthe audience increased to hundreds, andfilled the adjacent streets. It was a re-newal of the old enthusiastic days ofWhitefield. Next day he had crossed the Piscat-aqua river into the state of Maine, a ter-ritory in which he had no friends or ac-quaintances. First at Saco, and then atPortland, he was well received. Thencehe pressed along the coast to Freeportand Bath, busy seaport he proceeded further, he came to set-tlements where there was no regularpreaching, and where the people wereanxious to retain him. His first visitwas more a tour of observation than ofactual organization; and a year elapsedbefore the first class in Maine was organ-. BOEHMS CHAPEL. 386 The Illustrated History of Methodism.
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