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 . ed to KzekielCooper, reference is found to his camp-meetings, says Mr. Heath,which had been usual in the South andWest for some years, began in theLynchburg district in the spring. Atone held in March by Lorenzo Dow,assisted by other preachers and minis-ters, fifty souls professed to find peacewith God; and the m
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 . ed to KzekielCooper, reference is found to his camp-meetings, says Mr. Heath,which had been usual in the South andWest for some years, began in theLynchburg district in the spring. Atone held in March by Lorenzo Dow,assisted by other preachers and minis-ters, fifty souls professed to find peacewith God; and the movement com-menced to spread in all directions. Inhis own church the immediate resultwas an increase in his class from twentyto one hundred and sixty members. The general result of these camp- meetings was to increase the member-ship of the various Christian bodies, butespecially of the Methodists. Many ofthe Methodists objected to Dow that heworked as much for other bodies as forhis own; but the Conferences decided,after discussing the matter, to upholdand encourage him; and there is nodoubt that this magnanimous coursewas a wise one. The Church member-ship was increasing at a most gratifyingrate, having more than doubled in thedecade from 1794. The record for 1804. DOCTOR LOVICK PIERCE. showed a grand total of over five hun-dred preachers, and one hundred andforty-five thousand members. When Lorenzo Dow visited Englandin the summer of 180G, his vigorous re-vival methods won acceptance in someof the midland counties, where the peoplewere sunk in a practical the whole, he felt less at home inEngland than in Ireland, the peoplebeing more formal and less hearty. Hementions six kind of names of Meth-odists in England: (1) Old Society; (_)Kilhamites; (3) Quaker Methodists; (4; 378 The Illustrated History of Methodism. Whitefields Methodists; (5) Revivalists,or Free Gospellers; (6) Welsh Meth-odists, called Jumpers, a happy, plain,pious people, by the best accounts, be
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