. The history of Methodism. before the first month wras gone it became evident thatthe society must have a new and larger meeting-room. Justthen the shell of an unfinished church was sold at had cost £2,000, and bankrupted the Dutch Presby-terians who had built it. It was knocked down to a scatter-brained youth for £700, and he was glad to sell his whiteelephant to the Methodists for £50 less than he had bid forit. Thus the Lord provided for us, said Pilmoor. On Friday, November 24, 1769, probably the very day ofthe purchase, he took possession of the church, and preac
. The history of Methodism. before the first month wras gone it became evident thatthe society must have a new and larger meeting-room. Justthen the shell of an unfinished church was sold at had cost £2,000, and bankrupted the Dutch Presby-terians who had built it. It was knocked down to a scatter-brained youth for £700, and he was glad to sell his whiteelephant to the Methodists for £50 less than he had bid forit. Thus the Lord provided for us, said Pilmoor. On Friday, November 24, 1769, probably the very day ofthe purchase, he took possession of the church, and preached with great liberty of spirit upon that noble passage of Scrip-ture : Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabelthou shalt become a plain : and he shall bring forth the head-stone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto building was fifty-five feet by eighty-five feet, and wasfor many years by far the largest Methodist church edifice inAmerica, It was still far from completion, but the preacher. Captain Webb Preaching in the Sail-loft. Drawn by Thure de Thulstnip.
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