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 . an O to the name,was born at Lanivery in the year of his parents were church people,but his maternal grandmother had beena Quakeress. Converted in 1795, he be-came an active Methodist preacher, butwas expelled fifteen years later for allegedbreaches of discipline. The society heformed retained its name of Arminian
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 . an O to the name,was born at Lanivery in the year of his parents were church people,but his maternal grandmother had beena Quakeress. Converted in 1795, he be-came an active Methodist preacher, butwas expelled fifteen years later for allegedbreaches of discipline. The society heformed retained its name of ArminianBible Christians until 1829, when theydropped the first designation, and werecontent to be known by the vague titleof Bible Christians. The change ofname, however, represented no changewhatever in doctrine. OBryan emi-grated to the United States in 1831, andengaged in evangelistic labors in Brook-lyn, but failed to found a church. In1836 he published a work entitledTravels in the United States of Amer-ica. Until his death at the advancedage of ninety, he kept crossing betweenthe two countries. He lies buried besidehis wife, who died in Brooklyn in theyear 1860. OBryan was a man of highcharacter, and enjoyed the esteem of his The Illustrated History of Methodism 473. LEADERS IN THE ENGLISH PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH. i. Thomas Waumsley. 2. J. F. Parrish. 3. John Vaughan. 4. Joseph Shephard. 5. Thomas Guttery. 6. Jabez Oliver. y. George Morgan, S. T. Kench. 9. William Robinson. 10. Reuben Barron. 11. John Taylor. 12. Thomas Hartshorue. 13. Thomas Bryant. 474 The Illustrated History of Methodism.
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