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 . STEPHEN OWN, D. D., President of the Wesleyan University, Middletown,Connecticut. The Illustrated History of Methodism. 603 school, and both of them en-tered a lawyers office, only toquit it in order to enter a hallof learning. The college he entered wasMiddlebury, which, consider-ing its size, has been remark-ably prolific
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 . STEPHEN OWN, D. D., President of the Wesleyan University, Middletown,Connecticut. The Illustrated History of Methodism. 603 school, and both of them en-tered a lawyers office, only toquit it in order to enter a hallof learning. The college he entered wasMiddlebury, which, consider-ing its size, has been remark-ably prolific of able Olin graduated in 1820,he was appointed to deliverthe valedictory address, buthe had so overworked himselfthat he had to decline thehonor. With a view to im-proving his health he wentsouth to serve as principal ofTabernacle Academy in the Abbevilledistrict of South Carolina. Here hisduties imposed on him the necessity ofdelivering an opening and closing prayer;an irksome task to a man wholly indiffer-ent in respect to religion. Unwilling todischarge such a duty perfunctorily, heset himself to study the evidences ofChristianity, with the result that he be-.
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