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 . The year 1812 is memorable in thehistory of Ohio Methodism. On thefirst day of October there met at Chilli-cothe the first session of the Ohio Con-ference. Hitherto there had been a jointOhio and Tennessee Conference, but therapid increase of the work made a sepa-ration necessary. The Western Confer-ence, formed by Bishop A
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 . The year 1812 is memorable in thehistory of Ohio Methodism. On thefirst day of October there met at Chilli-cothe the first session of the Ohio Con-ference. Hitherto there had been a jointOhio and Tennessee Conference, but therapid increase of the work made a sepa-ration necessary. The Western Confer-ence, formed by Bishop Asbury in 17(.M>,and embracing all the territory west ofthe Alleghany mountains, included in1S05 twenty-six circuits, five districts,and thirty-seven preachers. Five yearslater Ohio alone contained almost asmany circuits and preachers. Whenorganized in 1812, it contained six dis-tricts—Ohio, Muskingum, Scioto, Mi-ami, Kentucky, and Salt River—andwas thus by no means coterminous withthe state. The first governor of Ohio was a Meth-odist local preacher, and a resident ofChillicothe. Dr. Edward Tiffin was bornin the ancient city of Carlisle, in En-gland, ten years before the Declarationof Independence. When about eighteen 434 The Illustrated History of MA-NUNCUE (i) AND BETWEEN-THE-LOGS (2). Two Indian chiefs of the Wyandot tribe, who were licensed preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. years of age, having then begun thestudy of medicine, he removed with hisparents to Virginia, where he finishedhis medical training and began to prac-tice. The preacher who effected achange in the doctors life was the Scott, then serving on theBerkeley circuit; a very young man,still in his teens, whose extreme youth-fulness attracted attention. After preach-ing to a lay gathering in a grove nearthe town of Charleston, Scott invited allwho were in earnest about their souls tomeet him at the house of his host, aMr. Anderson. A number came, amongthem Edward Tiffin,
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