. The history of Methodism. ared the sinnermight die in his trance. I concluded to go home, he says, and not proceed one step farther, for killing people will notanswer; but at last the man came to, and began to praiseGod. Mrs. Abbott, faithful to the end, died in 1788, and the nextspring her husband left the local ranks for the regular min-istry, being then in his fifty-seventh year. For seven yearsFather Abbott traveled circuits in New York, New Jersey,and Maryland, upholding with much of his old energy thedoctrines of justification and sanctification. About a yearbefore his death ill health
. The history of Methodism. ared the sinnermight die in his trance. I concluded to go home, he says, and not proceed one step farther, for killing people will notanswer; but at last the man came to, and began to praiseGod. Mrs. Abbott, faithful to the end, died in 1788, and the nextspring her husband left the local ranks for the regular min-istry, being then in his fifty-seventh year. For seven yearsFather Abbott traveled circuits in New York, New Jersey,and Maryland, upholding with much of his old energy thedoctrines of justification and sanctification. About a yearbefore his death ill health forced him to desist from regularministerial work, though he continued to testify in public ashe had opportunity. He died among loving friends at Salem,N. J., on August 14, 1796, in the sixty-fifth year of his obituary notice in the Minutes of that year speaks of himwith regretful tenderness and respect. He was rememberedby multitudes as a typical primitive Methodist preacher, aman full of faith and the Holy CHAPTER XVIIIThe Return of the Missionaries The English Evangelists.—The Way Hedged Up.—Escaping toEngland.—Captain Webb.—Martin Rodda, Royalist.—Shad-ford Prays for His King. — The Maryland Test Oaths. —Rankin Gives Up.—Asbury Will Stay. THE Wesleyan missionaries came to America out of purelove of winning souls. They were bound to theirnative country by every tie, and when the war hedgedup their opportunities of traveling and preaching they wenthome to England and resumed their itinerant labors underWesleys direction. Captain Webb, the most picturesque figure of them all,loved the souls of the Americans, and, from the very first,had spared neither time nor money in spreading the Gospelamong them. But we cannot doubt that his British bloodfairly boiled when the leaden statue of his king in BowlingGreen was pulled over and melted down into rebel had married in America, and was slow to give up hisproperty and connections here. In th
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