. The history of Methodism. AFTER T C- RUCKLE b DRa* 1 ORIGINAL PORTRAIT. MRS. ANN HOLL1XGSWORTH from Robertss Centenary Pictorial Album. 340 American Methodism meetings on the way. O may the Lord seal and water hisown word, was Asburys prayer, that all this toil of manand beast be not in vain. Signs were multiplying that itwas not in vain; for at one quarterly meeting they met. 1HE HOUSE OF KEV. GREEN HILL. Here was held, April 20, 1785, the first Annual Conference session of the newly organized Metho-dist Episcopal Church in America. At this Conference were present four dis
. The history of Methodism. AFTER T C- RUCKLE b DRa* 1 ORIGINAL PORTRAIT. MRS. ANN HOLL1XGSWORTH from Robertss Centenary Pictorial Album. 340 American Methodism meetings on the way. O may the Lord seal and water hisown word, was Asburys prayer, that all this toil of manand beast be not in vain. Signs were multiplying that itwas not in vain; for at one quarterly meeting they met. 1HE HOUSE OF KEV. GREEN HILL. Here was held, April 20, 1785, the first Annual Conference session of the newly organized Metho-dist Episcopal Church in America. At this Conference were present four distinguished pio-neers of Methodism, Kishops Coke and Asbury, and Revs. John King and Green Hill. Thetwo la^t named were brothers-in-law, and the old house has been in the possession of theirkindred almost continuously for more than a hundred years. with a multitude of people who were desperately wicked—but God hath wrought among them ! After the Conferences in Virginia and Baltimore, the latterthe scene of the struggle in which the preachers successfullyasserted their authority against Coke and Wesley, the bishopsvisited New York, where Asbury remained for several weeks,making excursions into Long Island, preaching in the alms-house, visiting the families of the members, or the sick, andmaking himself generally useful. To Hold Conference at Holstein 341 From May, 1787, until February, 17
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