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 . d in the year189*. A call which came from Uwajima, atown situated on the southwest coast of theisland of Shikoku, received an immediateresponse. The medical services given byDr. W R. Lambuth to old Prince Date,lord of the place, secured for the missiona friendly reception. Finally the wholeof the Shikoku and Kyushu work was
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 . d in the year189*. A call which came from Uwajima, atown situated on the southwest coast of theisland of Shikoku, received an immediateresponse. The medical services given byDr. W R. Lambuth to old Prince Date,lord of the place, secured for the missiona friendly reception. Finally the wholeof the Shikoku and Kyushu work wascentered at Matsuyama, also, likeUwajima, in the province of Iyo, butfurther to the north. During the nexteight years a good many changes tookplace in the personnel of the W R. Lambuth and Mr. Dukeswere compelled to leave home becauseof family reasons; and the elder Lambuthwas, in 1890, called to his reward. Hedied in Kobe, and the affectionate ladsof the Kwansei-Gakko asked permissionto draw his hearse through the streets asa testimony of their esteem. Under themanagement of S. H. Wainwright thisAnglo-Japanese college has grown andprospered. The Evangelical Association or Al-brights sent representatives to Japan 708 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BISHOP WTIXIAM TAYLOR,Missionary to Africa. soon after the Methodist EpiscopalChurch entered the field. DoctorKrecker, who won regard by his disinter-ested medical labors, fell a victim to hisdevotedness in the year 1883, and wasthe first missionary to be buried in thegreat cemetery at Aoyama in many years the city of Ozaka washeld by the organization, but this workwas finally handed over to the Cumber-land Presbyterians. In 1893, BishopEsher, when visiting Japan, organizedthe mission into an Annual Conference,with eleven elders, three deacons, andfive local preachers. It now includesfourteen or fifteen organized churches,representing a membership of over eighthundred. The claims of the neighboring penin-
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