The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . f money and the sparsely settled state of theregions wherein they resided contributed much to the diffi-culty in building and supporting colleges and seminaries,but that the disciples of John Wesley should long neglect toprovide for the founding of schools for the intellectual train-ing of those whom they had led into a religious life by meansof the Gospel was very unlikely. It might have been suspected that Wesley after his conver-sion would magnify the importance of faith and godliness inhuman development and minify the benefits of scholastict
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . f money and the sparsely settled state of theregions wherein they resided contributed much to the diffi-culty in building and supporting colleges and seminaries,but that the disciples of John Wesley should long neglect toprovide for the founding of schools for the intellectual train-ing of those whom they had led into a religious life by meansof the Gospel was very unlikely. It might have been suspected that Wesley after his conver-sion would magnify the importance of faith and godliness inhuman development and minify the benefits of scholastictraining. That he did not do so, however, is attested by his establishing Kingswood School and urging on his converts 1068 Cokesbury College 1069 the importance of mental training as an important adjunctto holy living. It is more than likely that John Dickins and Francis As-bury and their contemporaries caught their inspiration fromWesley. At any rate very early in the history of AmericanMethodism, in the year 1780, Dickins proposed the erection. GEORGE H. BRIDGMAN, of Hamline University. JOHN F. GOUCHER, of the Womans College. of an academic institution for Methodism. Asbury and Cokeagreed to the proposition, and Cokesbury College, named inhonor of the two bishops, was built near Abingdon, HarfordCounty, Md. On Sunday, June 5, 1785, the foundationsermon was preached by Asbury from the words, Thesayings which we have heard and known, and which ourfathers have told us, we will not hide them from their chil-dren. But his faith, strong as it was, did not see in thefuture the long list of schools, colleges, and universities of 1070 American Methodism which Cokesbury was the beginning. Students gladly cameto the new college. A collegiate town was built about 1787 and subsequently the Baltimore Conference metthere. Its professors were preachers, and thrilling are. therecords of the deep religious interest among the 1792 there were over sev
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