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 . nd foremost among all Meth-odist pulpit and platform orators of the nineteenth century—a speaker unri-valed, perhaps, since the days of White-field—was the Yorkshireman, WilliamMorley Punshon. His words found aready entrance not only among the hum-ble and the uncultured, but among therefined and the intellectual. For overth
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 . nd foremost among all Meth-odist pulpit and platform orators of the nineteenth century—a speaker unri-valed, perhaps, since the days of White-field—was the Yorkshireman, WilliamMorley Punshon. His words found aready entrance not only among the hum-ble and the uncultured, but among therefined and the intellectual. For overthirty years he was at the very heart ofEnglish Methodism. Born at Doncaster in the year 1823, ofsound Methodist stock, he was carefullybrought up; and at fourteen years of agehe entered a commercial house. Thedeath of his much-loved mother broughtup a religious change, and deepened hiswhole being, spiritual and to preach at the age of six-teen, he was soon eagerly sought afterby crowds of admirers. After preparingfor the ministry in the Richmond Theo-logical Institute, he entered upon circuitwork in Kent, at Newcastle, and in hisnative county of Yorkshire. His fameas a preacher reached the ears of relig-ious people in the metropolis, and he. BISHOP JOHN W HAMILTON, Fraternal delegate to the British Wesleyan Conferences of 1898. 600 The Illustrated History of Methodism
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