The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . John Wesleys Grandfather. METHODISTS THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL NOWLEDGE and Methodism have pro-gressed side by side in our country, and nowa large proportion of the community here, aswell as in England, are attached to this per-suasion. In the year, 1729, they sprang up at Ox-ford, under Mr. Morgan, who soon after died, and under Mr. JohnWesley. In the month of November of that year, the latter being thenfellow of Lincoln
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . John Wesleys Grandfather. METHODISTS THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL NOWLEDGE and Methodism have pro-gressed side by side in our country, and nowa large proportion of the community here, aswell as in England, are attached to this per-suasion. In the year, 1729, they sprang up at Ox-ford, under Mr. Morgan, who soon after died, and under Mr. JohnWesley. In the month of November of that year, the latter being thenfellow of Lincoln College, began to spend some evenings in readingthe Greek New Testament, along with Charles Wesley, student, , commoner, of Christ Church, and Mr. Kirkham, of Mertor546 Methodist Episcopal Church. 547 College. Next year two. or three of the pupils of Mr. John Wesley,and one pupil of Mr. Charles Wesley, obtained leave to attend thesemeetings. Two years after they were joined by Mr. Ingham, ofQueens College, Mr. Broughton, of Exeter, and Mr. James Hervey,and in 1735 by the celebrated George Whitefield then in his eighteenthyear. They soon obtained the name of Methodists, from the exactregularity of their lives, which gave
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