. The history of Methodism. tion and advance the kingdom of Christ. Hencewe concluded we had full power, according to the Xew Testa-ment, to preach the everlasting Gospel and to do all possiblegood to mankind. After a trying voyage of eight weeks, in which the buffet-ings of the equinoctial gales could not disturb their serenityof soul, the two missionaries disembarked at Gloucester Point,New Jersey. Their first act was to join in a doxology inpraise to God for their safe arrival. This done, they walkedfour miles along the Delaware, to Philadelphia, where theyfound cordial welcome and entertai
. The history of Methodism. tion and advance the kingdom of Christ. Hencewe concluded we had full power, according to the Xew Testa-ment, to preach the everlasting Gospel and to do all possiblegood to mankind. After a trying voyage of eight weeks, in which the buffet-ings of the equinoctial gales could not disturb their serenityof soul, the two missionaries disembarked at Gloucester Point,New Jersey. Their first act was to join in a doxology inpraise to God for their safe arrival. This done, they walkedfour miles along the Delaware, to Philadelphia, where theyfound cordial welcome and entertainment. The Methodistsof the city sought them out, and Captain Webb, who hadcome from Xew York to receive them, greeted themeffusively. Our souls rejoiced, says Pilmoor, to meetwith such a valiant soldier of Jesus in this distant a day or two the pair separated, Boardman, whoseseniority seems to have given him a certain authority, goingto New York, and his associate remaining in charge of the 44 American Methodism. little flock which they had so unexpectedly found in theQuaker capital. When Boardman reached New York he found that anotherEnglish preacher had arrived there ahead of him, and hadbeen laboring with success in Wesley Chapel. A few days later the sameforerunner ofthe Conferenceappointees,then on his wayfrom New Yorkto Maryland,called on Pil-moor in Phila-delphia. Hisname was Rob-ert Williams,and the storyof his briefconnection with the work is replete with interest. Williams was an English local preacher who had been atone time an itinerant in Ireland. He came to America of hisown accord, after obtaining Wesleys permission to work heresubject to the direction of the regular missionaries. So poorwas he that he had to sell his horse to pay his debts, and hisworldly store is said to have been reduced to a loaf and abottle of milk when he arrived at his port of friend Thomas Ashton, a liberal Dublin Methodist, whowas then migrating to the New Wor
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