. Indiana Methodism: a series of sketches and incidents grave and humorous concerning preachers and people of the West with an appendix containing personal recollections, public addresses and other miscellany. ty millions havebeen slain. The prophetic outline sketch of thestruggle of Christ with anti-Christ, with its 1260years of persecution and slaughter, has passed intohistory. We see the beginning of the end. Thelast grand MessianiQ battle comes quickly ; but inwrath he will remember mercy, and the nationsnot utterly wasted, shall join the voices of the ce-lestial spaces, and the great shou
. Indiana Methodism: a series of sketches and incidents grave and humorous concerning preachers and people of the West with an appendix containing personal recollections, public addresses and other miscellany. ty millions havebeen slain. The prophetic outline sketch of thestruggle of Christ with anti-Christ, with its 1260years of persecution and slaughter, has passed intohistory. We see the beginning of the end. Thelast grand MessianiQ battle comes quickly ; but inwrath he will remember mercy, and the nationsnot utterly wasted, shall join the voices of the ce-lestial spaces, and the great shout shall ring throughearth and heaven, and on the pained ear of hell,—The kingdom of this world has become the kingdomof our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever. Here the words of John and always your friend and brother, J. W. T. McMULLEN. 448 INDIANA METHODISM, A GODLY MAN. Although, in the preceding pages, the name ofJohn H. Hull appears in connection with several ofthe incidents narrated, yet in view of his long andfaithful services—from childhood to advanced age—it is deemedproperthat a somewhat more extend-ed notice of this true man of God should be Rev. J. H. Hull. John Henry Hull, son of Daniel and Sarah Hull,was born in Highland County. Ohio, January i8th,1818. SKETCHES AXD INCIDENTS. 449 John was converted at a Camp-meeting on Hills-borough Circuit,Ohio Conference,in the twelfth yearof his age, and now says, My call to preach, camethe same day and hour of my conversion to God,—it was at an old fashioned camp-meeting conductedby Augustus Eddy, presiding elder, and George preacher in charge, the meeting held for sixor seven days,and registered according to official re-port in the conversion of 363 souls. The Rev. John Collins licensed the boy to exhort,before he was fourteen years of age—he was licens-ed to preach at twenty,and when a few months over:twenty-one was admitted on trial to the Indianaconference h
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