The junior history of Methodism [electronic resource]: for young people, study classes in Epworth League and the general reader . of their religious members of the party became open worldlings. Another party came over from Ireland in 1765, someof whom were related to members of the first was Paul Ruckle, a brother to Barbara Heck. Itwas in his house that Barbara was first moved to takethe step which may be said to begin Methodism inAmerica. She came to make a social visit, but findinga party engaged in playing cards, her righteous soul wasso vexed that she seized the ca
The junior history of Methodism [electronic resource]: for young people, study classes in Epworth League and the general reader . of their religious members of the party became open worldlings. Another party came over from Ireland in 1765, someof whom were related to members of the first was Paul Ruckle, a brother to Barbara Heck. Itwas in his house that Barbara was first moved to takethe step which may be said to begin Methodism inAmerica. She came to make a social visit, but findinga party engaged in playing cards, her righteous soul wasso vexed that she seized the cards and threw them intothe fire, and then, having warned the players, left. Witha mighty purpose she went direct to the home of PhilipEmbury and pleaded with him to begin to preach the word METHODISM PLANTED IN AMERICA. 51 at once. He argued that he had no house in which topreach. She urged him to preach in his own house,and, with the decision characteristic of her sex, shewent out and collected four others. These five madethe first Methodist congregation in America. Aftersinging and prayer, Embury preached and enrolled the. Robert Strawbridge. members in a class. He then met them every a few months fourteen had been converted and wereenrolled in two classes, one for men and one for the attendance was too large for Emburys house, 52 JUNIOR HISTORY OF METHODISM. and a larger room, which had been used as a * RiggingLoft, was rented, and the work went on with increasingsuccess. About the same time that Embury began to preachin New York another local preacher from Ireland,Robert Strawbridge, began to preach at Sams Creek,in Frederick County, Md. Strawbridge had been anitinerant preacher in Ireland, and when he landed inAmerica took up the work among his County was then a backwoods country; onlyfive years before the Indians had passed Forts Cumber-land and Frederick, plundering and murdering, andwent unchecked nearly to Baltimore. To this city
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