The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . op in theconnection; and his home atConestoga, Lancaster county,Pennsylvania, was a hospitableshelter for Asbury and other ofthe Methodist leaders. BoehmsChapel, planned by Whatcoat,and built of limestone in theyear 1791, was famous as acenter of evangelization. From the year 1796 Albrightdevoted himself exclusively tothe G
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . op in theconnection; and his home atConestoga, Lancaster county,Pennsylvania, was a hospitableshelter for Asbury and other ofthe Methodist leaders. BoehmsChapel, planned by Whatcoat,and built of limestone in theyear 1791, was famous as acenter of evangelization. From the year 1796 Albrightdevoted himself exclusively tothe German population, andfinally in 1800 organized hisconverts into a society knownlater as the Evangelical Asso-ciation. Albright was highly es-teemed by Asbury, with whom he hadcordial relations, and he modeled theconstitution of his society upon that of theMethodists. In 1803 he was appointedpresiding elder and labored diligently inplanting stations until his death at X * f^temk ^ w& « HON. ALLEN TRIMBLE,Governor of Ohio in 1822. A prominent Methodist, andfather of Dr. J. M. Trimble, of the Ohio Con-ference. 388 The Illustrated History of Methodism. Miihlbach in 1808. It was at this timethat a translation into German of theMethodist Discipline was completed, for. THE; VIRGINIAN HOME OF THE REV. STEWARTTAYLOR, FATHER OF BISHOP TAYLOR. Here Bishop Taylor spent his boyhood days. The house is about two miles west of Rockbridge Baths, Virginia. the use of the members. The translationwas in the main the work of a Germanphysician named Romer, who had beenbrought up a Roman Catholic and hadlapsed into pure skepticism, butvBoehmhad also something to do with it. Con-verted in 1800 through the exemplarylife of a Methodist woman, Doctor Romermade his home a center of religious in-fluence. This German version of theDiscipline, to which was prefixed an ex-cellent account of Methodism, was widelycirculated in Pennsylvania and else-where. The organization, popularlyknown as The Albrights, has
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