. The history of Methodism. the ministry in a roughschool. A native of Virginia, he had early crossed themountains and at the age of sixteen was captured by theIndians and adopted into the Shawnee tribe. Five yearslater he returned home a seasoned woodsman and recklesslysinful. When reclaimed under Methodist preaching- he be-came one of the most effective of frontier preachers. Aftertwo years in Virginia the bishop sent him to the FrenchBroad Mission, in 1788, where among outlaws and Indians heneeded all his hardihood, but faced without flinching thehardships of that Laud of the Sky. Uncouth o
. The history of Methodism. the ministry in a roughschool. A native of Virginia, he had early crossed themountains and at the age of sixteen was captured by theIndians and adopted into the Shawnee tribe. Five yearslater he returned home a seasoned woodsman and recklesslysinful. When reclaimed under Methodist preaching- he be-came one of the most effective of frontier preachers. Aftertwo years in Virginia the bishop sent him to the FrenchBroad Mission, in 1788, where among outlaws and Indians heneeded all his hardihood, but faced without flinching thehardships of that Laud of the Sky. Uncouth of speech,reckless of grammar and rhetoric, reading no books but theBook, the Methodist classics, and the human heart, he was Daniel Asbury 451 nevertheless a preacher to whom men of intellect must listen—such was his knowledge of Scripture and the directness,sincerity, and force of his address. He married NancyMorris, and devoted the greater part of his long life topreaching in the Carolinas and Georgia. He died in 1825,. 0M A pnOTOGH THE KAPIDS OF THE FRENCH BROAD. and was buried in the yard of Rehoboth Church, the firstwhich was built by the Methodists in North Carolina west ofthe Catawba. South Carolina Methodism is younger by a decade thanthat of its sister State. Both John and Charles Wesley hadvisited Charleston during their brief connection with Ogle-thorpes colony in Georgia, and John had preached in Church, the pride of the English settlers. White-field crossed and recrossed the State in his visits to his OrphanHouse at Ebenezer, near Savannah, and uttered his flamingevangel in Charleston. In 1773 came Joseph Pilmoor, his horse and chaise lum-bering through dreary pine barrens and sandy wastes, and 452 American Methodism beaten by such storms as made the journey a distressfulmemory. On Friday evening, January 22, he preached thefirst Methodist sermon in Charleston to a small but seriouscompany. Though expecting- ill treatment, he was well re-ceived, and ha
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