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 . MRS, CORNELIUS YAXDERBILT, iuc CRAWFORD. 614 The Illustrated History of Methodism. Academy near his home with a view tostudy for the ministry. He afterwardcrossed into Connecticut, to continue hisstudies in the Wesleyan University atMiddletown, where he won the favorableattention of Dr. Wilbur Fisk. In hissenior year he und
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 . MRS, CORNELIUS YAXDERBILT, iuc CRAWFORD. 614 The Illustrated History of Methodism. Academy near his home with a view tostudy for the ministry. He afterwardcrossed into Connecticut, to continue hisstudies in the Wesleyan University atMiddletown, where he won the favorableattention of Dr. Wilbur Fisk. In hissenior year he undertook, with DoctorFisks approval, the principalship of theConference Seminary at Amenia. This. WJ1XIAM H. was in the year 1836, when he wastwenty-six years of age. His success atthis post convinced him that teaching,rather than the pastorate, was his voca-tion. After serving two years at Amenia,he was elected, on the recommendationof Doctor Fisk, to the chair of naturalscience in the Ohio University, atAthens, where he remained four years. In 1843, after one year of pastoral worbegan his long association, lasting ovhalf a century, with the Ohio WesleyfUniversity, then in its infancy. Eserved for two years as its agent, for fjteen years as professor, for thirteen yeaas president, and, finally, for twenty-otyears as professor emeritus and lectunon natural and revealed religion. Egave freely of his money as weas of his time and energy; arwas singularly successful in oltaining gifts for the institutioiThe Thomson Chapel and tllibrary are conspicuous instanceof his value as a man of affair;Above and beyond this, h:Christian character was of shigh and noble a type as its
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