. The history of Methodism. d off manya sturdy young preacher, he could say, I passed them verypleasantly to myself, and so it would have been in Greenlanditself, with the sentiments and feelings I possessed. Asbury continued to pour preachers into these high valleyswith a lavish hand. New names appear every year. Thepresiding elder in 1788 had been Edward Morris, in 1789John Tunnell again, in 1790 Charles Hardy, in 1791 MarkWhittaker, and in 1792 Barnabas McHenry. Among thetraveling preachers of these years are Jeremiah Mastin,Joseph Doddridge, John Baldwin, Jeremiah Abel, DanielShines, Danie
. The history of Methodism. d off manya sturdy young preacher, he could say, I passed them verypleasantly to myself, and so it would have been in Greenlanditself, with the sentiments and feelings I possessed. Asbury continued to pour preachers into these high valleyswith a lavish hand. New names appear every year. Thepresiding elder in 1788 had been Edward Morris, in 1789John Tunnell again, in 1790 Charles Hardy, in 1791 MarkWhittaker, and in 1792 Barnabas McHenry. Among thetraveling preachers of these years are Jeremiah Mastin,Joseph Doddridge, John Baldwin, Jeremiah Abel, DanielShines, Daniel Lockett, Joseph Pace, Julius Conner, JohnMcGee, John West, John Ball, John Sewell, Salathiel Weeks,James Ward, Stephen Brooks, William Burke, David Hag-gard, Jeremiah Norman. Many of these withdrew from theitinerancy after a few years, through weakness of body orfamily concerns, to use the phrase of the old Minutes, buta few names, like those of McHenry and Burke, are amongthe brightest in the annals of Western CHAPTER XLVII The Entrance into Kentucky The Father of Kentucky Methodism.—Haw and Ogden.—Poy-thress.—Brooks and McHenry.—First Kentucky Conference.—Middle Tennessee Penetrated. IT is supposed that the Holston preachers were not aloneat the Conference of 1788, for Methodist itinerants werealready abroad among the vigorous settlements of Ken-tucky, and no perils of red men or wild beasts could havedeterred such men as these from crossing the wildernesswhich lay between them and the assembly of their brethren. It was in 1786 that the first Methodist itinerants formallyreached Kentucky. The land of Daniel Boone was rapidlygaining settlers from Virginia and other States, and Baptistpreachers were already at the front. The Presbyterians hadformed a few churches, and were organizing the Presbyteryof Transylvania. The father of Kentucky Methodism was Francis Clark, a local preacher, who emigrated from Virginia with other Methodists and settled in Mercer
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