. The history of Methodism. er Ann Rogersand Dinah Evans, were evangelists of uncommon gifts andgrace. A womans name must be written in the opening chapterof American Methodism, whatever the writers theory of theplace of its origin. Whether the one-eyed officer, the car-penter schoolmaster, or the Irish farmer be reckoned its hero,its heroine was Barbara Heck. The story of the righteousGerman woman who scattered the card-players and recalledPhilip Embury to his duty will be told as long as Methodistchildren listen at their mothers knee to the wonderful storyof their Church. It is safe to say t
. The history of Methodism. er Ann Rogersand Dinah Evans, were evangelists of uncommon gifts andgrace. A womans name must be written in the opening chapterof American Methodism, whatever the writers theory of theplace of its origin. Whether the one-eyed officer, the car-penter schoolmaster, or the Irish farmer be reckoned its hero,its heroine was Barbara Heck. The story of the righteousGerman woman who scattered the card-players and recalledPhilip Embury to his duty will be told as long as Methodistchildren listen at their mothers knee to the wonderful storyof their Church. It is safe to say that the project of build-ing the first chapel in New York would have failed had it notbeen for this womans faith and determination. The namesof more than thirty women appear among the subscribers tothe building fund. The largest contribution from a womanwas Mrs. Andersons £$ 45., and from other entries in theaccount books of the society it seems probable that she wasa poor widow who earned her living by working by the Barbara Heck and the Card Players. Drawn by Jno. Cassel.
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