. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. n the year 1836 in his forty-eighth year. Francis Asbury, the first Methodist bishop of the UnitedStates, was born in Staffordshire,England, in 1745, the day anddate not being known. He cameto America to preach the Gospeland make converts to his faithabout the year 1770, sent by hisgreat leader, John Wesley. In1784 the Methodist Chu
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. n the year 1836 in his forty-eighth year. Francis Asbury, the first Methodist bishop of the UnitedStates, was born in Staffordshire,England, in 1745, the day anddate not being known. He cameto America to preach the Gospeland make converts to his faithabout the year 1770, sent by hisgreat leader, John Wesley. In1784 the Methodist Church inthe United States was organizedupon a somewhat different foun-dation than that upon which itstood in the Old World, and itwas in that year that Asbury re-ceived his appointment. He diedin Virginia, 1816, at the allotted age of threescore years and ten. Daniel Parish Kidder, an American Methodist divine, andthe first to introduce the Scripture in Portuguese language inBrazil, was a native of Genesee County, N. Y. He was educatedat the Wesleyan University, Connecticut. He became a pastor,and in 1836 he went to Rochester, N. Y., where he remained forone year ; lie then went to Brazil as a missionary. John SummerflLeld, a noted Methodist clergyman distin-. CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. 11
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