Sketches of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, and its bibliography . in that State. His educational advan-tages were very limited, but by intense application t<istudy he gained a sufficient degree of knowledge \oenable him to teach school in 1811. In 1812 he enlist-ed as a soldier in the United States Army for a yeai,and became an orderly seigeant in his company. On the 21st of August, 1813, at a camp-meeting nearBaltimore, under the ministration of Revs. Snethen^Shinn, McCaine and others he was converted to Christ. REV. GEORGE BROWN, D. D. THE METHODIST PROTPZST^NT CHURCH. 4
Sketches of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, and its bibliography . in that State. His educational advan-tages were very limited, but by intense application t<istudy he gained a sufficient degree of knowledge \oenable him to teach school in 1811. In 1812 he enlist-ed as a soldier in the United States Army for a yeai,and became an orderly seigeant in his company. On the 21st of August, 1813, at a camp-meeting nearBaltimore, under the ministration of Revs. Snethen^Shinn, McCaine and others he was converted to Christ. REV. GEORGE BROWN, D. D. THE METHODIST PROTPZST^NT CHURCH. 407 unci united with the M. E. Church, in the 21st year ofhis age. At his conversion, he resolved, like the , never to shun the cross. Believing that Godhad called him to the Christian ministry, he thereforeimmediately began a course of religious reading, andin 1815 .vent on Anne Arundel circuit as an assistantpreacher, under the Presiding Elder, and in March,1816, was received into the Baltimore Conference of theM E. Church, which at that time included WesternPennsylvania. For several years following, his appoint-ments were in Maryland, Eastern Virginia and Penn-sylvania. In 1823, he was appointed Presiding Elder on theMonongahela District. In 1825, when the PittsburghConference was set off, he became a member of it, andcontinued there until he withdrew from the his connection with that Church, he filled anumber of prominent appointments, and served fouryears as Presiding Elder. In 1826 he was appoi
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