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 . her to carry on her religious work in case appeal on behalf of the colonists, which of her death. betrays a singularly accurate estimate of To this excellent nobleman, who was the situation, and a substantially correct personally responsible for the regrettable forecast of the consequences involved in a 216 THE ILLUSTRATED
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 . her to carry on her religious work in case appeal on behalf of the colonists, which of her death. betrays a singularly accurate estimate of To this excellent nobleman, who was the situation, and a substantially correct personally responsible for the regrettable forecast of the consequences involved in a 216 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF METHODISM. 1. GARRETTSON ASSAILED BY A MOB IN DORCHESTERCOUNTY, MARYLAND. continuation of the policy. It is a pity thathe should ever have changed his mind, ashe did later. He begins by declaring that,though bred a high churchman withthe highest notions of passive obedienceand non-resistance, he cannot keep fromregarding the colonists as an oppressedpeople asking for nothing more thantheir legal rights, and that in the mostmodest and inoffensive manner that thenature of the thing would allow. Hestrongly deprecates the use of force,and, setting aside the question of rightor wrong, insists upon the futility ofsuch a policy. Two thousand men clearAmerica of these rebels? Twenty orsixty thousand men might not be suf-ficient ! After a gloomy survey of thesocial condition of the kingdom, withtrade decaying, food dear, and abjectpoverty side by side with profuse luxury,he closes with references to Rehoboam,Philip the Second, and King Charlesthe First, as parallel cases that may wellbe laid to heart. Up to
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