. The history of Methodism. by R. Aitken & Son and J. Cruikshank. of Phila-delphia, the Book Room being then at 43 Fourth Street. In The Work of John Dickins 403 1792 the house was at No. 1S2 Race Street, and Parry Hallwas the printer. From 1795 to 179S the Hook Room was at50 North Second Street, and Henry Tuekniss did the the latter yearthe Book Room wasat 41 Market Front andSecond Streets. Dickins gave thelast nine years ofhis life to the specialwork to which hewas called in these yearsone hundred andfourteen thousandvolumes of bookswent out from theMet
. The history of Methodism. by R. Aitken & Son and J. Cruikshank. of Phila-delphia, the Book Room being then at 43 Fourth Street. In The Work of John Dickins 403 1792 the house was at No. 1S2 Race Street, and Parry Hallwas the printer. From 1795 to 179S the Hook Room was at50 North Second Street, and Henry Tuekniss did the the latter yearthe Book Room wasat 41 Market Front andSecond Streets. Dickins gave thelast nine years ofhis life to the specialwork to which hewas called in these yearsone hundred andfourteen thousandvolumes of bookswent out from theMethodist BookRoom at Philadel-phia. These com-prisedWesleys andFletchers works,already the classicsof Methodism;hymnals, Disci-plines, Christian bi-ographies, devotional books, and controversial pamphlets, atleast one of which, Friendly Remarks on the Late Proceed-ings of the Rev. Mr. Hammet, was written by Dickins him-self and printed by request of the Conference. This first agent of the Book Concern died at his post. A. photographeo fro AX EARLY liouk CONCERN IMPRINT. 404 American Methodism pest of yellow fever was ravaging the city, and men andwomen were fleeing before it Bnt not so with the Methodistbook steward. To Asbury he wrote: I sit down to writeas in the jaws of death. Whether Providence may permitme to see your face again in the flesh I know not. PerhapsI might have left the city, as most of my friends and breth-ren have done. I commit myself and family into the handsof God for life or death. His last words when smittendown by the fever were to his wife: Glory be to Jesus!O, glory be to my God! I have not felt so much for sevenyears. Love him, trust him, praise him! He died onSeptember 26, 1798. He was buried in St. Georges Church-yard, where a tablet still bears his name. But his bestmemorial is the great and beneficent publishing Concernwith whose beginnings his name will ever be gratefullyassociated. Dickins was a notable figure among the brethren, and nomans loss,
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