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 . t short in right-eousness, because a short work will theLord make upon the earth. Weak as he was, he continued on hisway, and on the twenty-ninth of themonth reached the house of Mr. Arnold,in Spottsylvania, eighteen miles from thetown of Fredericksburg. Two days laterhe died, having for some time beenspeechless; but even t
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 . t short in right-eousness, because a short work will theLord make upon the earth. Weak as he was, he continued on hisway, and on the twenty-ninth of themonth reached the house of Mr. Arnold,in Spottsylvania, eighteen miles from thetown of Fredericksburg. Two days laterhe died, having for some time beenspeechless; but even then he continuedto express by gestures his peace of mindand joyful hope of a blessed his son John, as he called , we owe the particulars of his lastmoments. His body was interred in the familyburial-ground of the Arnold family. But, 448 The Illustrated History of Methodism. a few weeks later, at the request of thesociety in Baltimore and of the GeneralConference, then in session, it was con-veyed to that city and re-interred withsolemn rites. The procession started At the head came Bishop McKendreeand the Rev. William Black, who wasgeneral superintendent of the Canadawork of the British Wesleyan Conferenceand represented the brethren of British. PRESIDENT WIIXIAM member of the Methodist Church in Canton, Ohio. from the Light-street Conference roomon the tenth of May, the double coffinbeing borne by twelve pall-bearers. Allwho attended were on foot, as was cus-tomary in those days of simple manners. nationality. The governor of the state,the Protestant Episcopal bishop, andmany representatives from the otherchurches were present, as well as all theleading citizens of Baltimore; and the The Illustrated History of Methodism. 449 phole concourse must have numberedwenty thousand people. The distance tohe Eutaw Street Church, where a cryptiad been prepared under the pulpit forhe reception of the remains, was over aaile. Here Bishop McKendree, bef
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