. The history of Methodism. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. FACSIMILE OF THE SIGNATURE IN EMBURYS CONCORDANCE. c>->. CHAPTER III Strawbridge, the Maryland Farmer-Preacher An Open Question.—Robert Strawbkidge in Ireland.—Beginningsin Maryland.—The Log Chapel.—Captain Webbs Discovery.—Independence.—Their Works do Follow Them. BEFORE the Revolution, when the irregularity of themails and the difficulty of travel restricted communi-cation and kept the newspapers from getting evensuch news as was of general interest, an event of such appar-ent insignificance as the holding of religious meetings by asimple
. The history of Methodism. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. FACSIMILE OF THE SIGNATURE IN EMBURYS CONCORDANCE. c>->. CHAPTER III Strawbridge, the Maryland Farmer-Preacher An Open Question.—Robert Strawbkidge in Ireland.—Beginningsin Maryland.—The Log Chapel.—Captain Webbs Discovery.—Independence.—Their Works do Follow Them. BEFORE the Revolution, when the irregularity of themails and the difficulty of travel restricted communi-cation and kept the newspapers from getting evensuch news as was of general interest, an event of such appar-ent insignificance as the holding of religious meetings by asimple farmer in a backwoods settlement could gain littlepublicity. We have no knowledge that the little company ofMethodists in New York city were aware of the presence ofany of their fellow-religionists in the vSouth until 1768, at theearliest. It was probably Captain Webb, while on one of hissallies southward from Philadelphia, who first brought tolight the good work of Robert Strawbridge in virulence of the old contest for priority between NewYork and Maryland Methodism has spent it
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