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 . many tohave been the earliest, was antedated byseveral others. This structure stood inClermont county, east of Cincinnati, adistrict in which many Maryland andVirginia families had settled. Its sizewas large for these days, and it accord-ingly attracted a good deal of dedication services were attendedby McKendree


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 . many tohave been the earliest, was antedated byseveral others. This structure stood inClermont county, east of Cincinnati, adistrict in which many Maryland andVirginia families had settled. Its sizewas large for these days, and it accord-ingly attracted a good deal of dedication services were attendedby McKendree and by William Burke,then presiding elder of the Ohio veteran Ohio Methodist associatedwith these days, and long sharing withWilliam Burke the honor of being theoldest preachers in the West, was ThomasScott. Like Edward Tiffin, to whom hewas the means of conversion, he showedhis powers in the practical walks of life,being a gifted lawyer. Judge Scott, ashe was universally called, was a nativeof Maryland, where he was born in theyear 1772. He came of stanch Protest-ant Irish stock, the family having emi-grated to Pennsylvania at the close ofthe seventeenth century. At the earlyage of fourteen he joined the MethodistChurch, and was admitted on trial as an.


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