The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . early life was spent on a farm. Hisstruggles for an education made him self-reliant, and led himto highly esteem the advantages of scholastic training. By hisown labors and excessive economy he was enabled to gradu-ate from Allegheny College, where he was a tutor in mathe-matics in his second collegiate year. Upon graduation, in1841, he was elected to a professorship. He at once joinedthe Erie Conference. From 1856 to 1864 he was editor ofthe Western Christian Advocate. In 1864 he was elected abishop. He died on April 6, 1870, at Beyroot, Syria,
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . early life was spent on a farm. Hisstruggles for an education made him self-reliant, and led himto highly esteem the advantages of scholastic training. By hisown labors and excessive economy he was enabled to gradu-ate from Allegheny College, where he was a tutor in mathe-matics in his second collegiate year. Upon graduation, in1841, he was elected to a professorship. He at once joinedthe Erie Conference. From 1856 to 1864 he was editor ofthe Western Christian Advocate. In 1864 he was elected abishop. He died on April 6, 1870, at Beyroot, Syria, whileon an episcopal tour around the world. He was a man ofstrong intellect, a keen logical faculty predominating. As apreacher he was rich in doctrinal truth and lucid in exposi-tion. His executive ability was of a superior order. Histalents seemed only unfolding when he was stricken by work on the Resurrection and his posthumouswork, Letters and Observations in Europe and the East,prove him a writer of distinguished
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