The junior history of Methodism [electronic resource]: for young people, study classes in Epworth League and the general reader . , becausehe hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. A few days later we find him at Kingswood, once aroyal hunting ground, but now the home of miners andother laborers. Here he stands in the open, preachingto a multitude from this text, Ho! every one thatthirsteth, come ye to the waters. Under the preaching of such evangelists many con-verts were made. The new spiritual life in them ledthem to seek each others company. This resulted in THE FIRST METHODIST
The junior history of Methodism [electronic resource]: for young people, study classes in Epworth League and the general reader . , becausehe hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. A few days later we find him at Kingswood, once aroyal hunting ground, but now the home of miners andother laborers. Here he stands in the open, preachingto a multitude from this text, Ho! every one thatthirsteth, come ye to the waters. Under the preaching of such evangelists many con-verts were made. The new spiritual life in them ledthem to seek each others company. This resulted in THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH. 39 the society that built the first Methodist church. It wasformed at Bristol in the summer of the year 1739. Soonafter this societies were formed at Kingswood, Moor-fields—on the edge of London—and at Bath. However, church building preceded the forming ofsocieties as such. The success of the new movementwas so great at Bristol that the people demanded ahouse of worship. Accordingly the corner stone of sucha structure was laid, with the voice of thanksgiving andpraise, May 12, 1739. This was the first Methodist. Church in Bristol. church in the world. Building went on so slowly, how-ever, at Bristol that the foundry at Moorfields was openedfor church services first. At this place the preaching ofWesley and Whitefield was attended by vast crowds,one congregation was estimated at sixty was a large building which had formerly beenused as a foundry in the casting of cannon. It wassecured, fitted up for church purposes, and opened forregular public worship November n, 1739. ^ became 40 JUNIOR HISTORY OF METHODISM. the headquarters for the Methodists of London andthe country in general. Some have used this date asthe beginning of Methodism, others fix it at the form-ing of the Holy Club, 1729; Mr. Wesley dated it fromthe forming of the first society, in the end of theyear 1739. The year 1744 is memorable as the year of persecu-tion. By this time deep prejud
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