Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ddle-bags, after the fash-ion of the fathers. The biography already referred to says: This exercise in the bracing air of the mountains brought back the wastedvigor, and imparted additional strength, developing the slight youth into asturdy and robust man. His first sermon was preached on Manor Hill, Pa.,from the text, I have fought a good fight, etc., thus beginning his procla-mation of the good news of God by anticipating the close. This brings


Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ddle-bags, after the fash-ion of the fathers. The biography already referred to says: This exercise in the bracing air of the mountains brought back the wastedvigor, and imparted additional strength, developing the slight youth into asturdy and robust man. His first sermon was preached on Manor Hill, Pa.,from the text, I have fought a good fight, etc., thus beginning his procla-mation of the good news of God by anticipating the close. This brings us to his MINISTERIAL RECORD: 1854, supply in the Allegheny Mts.;1855, (Bait. Conf.,) Manor Hill Pa., with J. W. Haughawout; 1856,West Harford cir., Md., with F. Macartney; 1857-1858, located,student in Biblical Institute, Concord, N. H.; 1858, (April and May,)Brooklyn, Sands-street, supply; 1858, (several months,) Lawrence,Mass., supply; 1859, (New York East ) Mamaroneck, N. Y.; i860,ditto, with N. Tibbals, supy; 1861, ordained deacon ; 1861-1862, New 1 Hanson Place Quarterly, October, 1883. Sketch by the Rev. Charles ,.. REV. WILBUR F WATKINS. D. D. Record of Ministers. 345 York, Twenty-seventh-street; 1863-1865, Brooklyn, Washington street; 1866-1868, Brooklyn, Hanson Place; 1869-1870, New Haven. Conn., First ch.;1S71, withdrew ; 1871, ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Churchby Bp. Littlejohn, of Long Island,—assistant minister, St. James Church,Brooklyn, in charge of St. Barnabas Mission—later in the same year, ordainedpriest—rector, St. Barnabas; 1872-1875, rector of the Church of the Epiph-any, Washington, D. C; 1876-1880, rector of Christ Church, Baltimore,Md.; 1881-1884, rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York. As the boy preacher in Pennsylvania and Maryland, it isthought that he enjoyed the sweetest notoriety of his life; but, being conscious of the need of a systematic theologicaltraining, he stepped aside from the conf


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