Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . died about i860, in Brook-lyn, N. Y. fttfatip REV. NATHAN BANGS, D. D. BANGS. wo years as pastor and one year as presiding elder,the Rev. Nathan Bangs, D. D. was associatedwith Sands-street church. After Asbury died, noman in Methodism wielded a more potent and permanantinfluence than Dr. Bangs. He was born in Stratford, Conn.,May 2, 1778. Removing to Stamford, Delaware Co., N. thirteen years of age, he grew up on a farm in that(t
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . died about i860, in Brook-lyn, N. Y. fttfatip REV. NATHAN BANGS, D. D. BANGS. wo years as pastor and one year as presiding elder,the Rev. Nathan Bangs, D. D. was associatedwith Sands-street church. After Asbury died, noman in Methodism wielded a more potent and permanantinfluence than Dr. Bangs. He was born in Stratford, Conn.,May 2, 1778. Removing to Stamford, Delaware Co., N. thirteen years of age, he grew up on a farm in that(then) frontier country, attended school when he could, andtaught school at eighteen years of age. In 1799 he went toCanada, and, as teacher and surveyor, he resided in the Ni-agara region three years. There, through the faithful min-istry of James Coleman, and later of Joseph Sawyer, he waspowerfully affected, and led to consecrate himself to was in 1800, when he was twenty-one years of opening his school with prayer he was persecuted anddriven away; but this severe treatment only drove him tocloser fellowship with Christian people, and a more decidedrenunciat
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