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 . a law-abiding and progressive province of the British em-pire, is in part due to the zealous laborsof Methodists. The two schoolmastersand twelve other accredited Wesley-ans at Sydney applied to the home com-mittee for a missionary, and SamuelEeigh, an excellent choice, was dis-patched in response. He came from thesame part
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 . a law-abiding and progressive province of the British em-pire, is in part due to the zealous laborsof Methodists. The two schoolmastersand twelve other accredited Wesley-ans at Sydney applied to the home com-mittee for a missionary, and SamuelEeigh, an excellent choice, was dis-patched in response. He came from thesame part of England as Francis Asburyand Richard Whatcoat—from the countyof Stafford. Born in the year 1785, ofgodly parents, he belonged in his youthto the Congregational body, and studiedfor the ministry in the seminary at Gos-port. But the Calvinistic creed was dis-tasteful to him, and, from motives ofconviction, he joined the Wesleyans. Onthe Shaftesbury circuit he did excellentwork, establishing schools that are stillefficient; but after two years he asked tobe sent to the foreign field. His widowedmother for long opposed his desires; butat length, seeing he was resolved, shegave him her blessing: May the L,ordHimself go with thee. In New South Wales, where he landed. LATE RESIDENCE OF BISHOP GILBERT HAVEN. AND CHURCH FROM WHICH HE WAS BURIED,3 ] MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS. 482 The Illustrated History of Methodism.
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