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 . present stateof efficiency. Doctor Dempster, who remained forseven years in charge, had been con-nected with the first institute of the kind,which was opened at Concord, NewHampshire, in the year 1847- He wasa man of singular force of character, the son of a Scotchman sent out as a mis-sionary to the West Indies by John Wes
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 . present stateof efficiency. Doctor Dempster, who remained forseven years in charge, had been con-nected with the first institute of the kind,which was opened at Concord, NewHampshire, in the year 1847- He wasa man of singular force of character, the son of a Scotchman sent out as a mis-sionary to the West Indies by John Wes-ley. The plan of founding such a semi-nary was regarded with considerable dis-favor, and he spent seven years of up-hill work in collecting funds and fillingthe chair of instructor. Before his deathin 1863, at the age of seventy-one, hewas planning to found another such in-stitution in California. Time has justi-fied his views, and the Church has takenunder its immediate wing the work forwhich he struggled. His first organization has grown tofine proportions. The institute was re-moved in 1867 from Concord, and locatedin Boston, where its name was changedto Boston Theological Seminary. Fouryears later it was made the theologicaldepartment of Boston University, and. TWO COLLEGE Collins Denny, Vanderbilt University2. William North Rice, Wesleyan University, Middle-town, Connecticut. The Illustrated History of Methodism 621
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