. The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time .. . omulgated by John Wesley and George Whitefield. Their trumpet 216 EARLY SETTLERS AND INDIAN TROUBLES. like appeals had already reached and effected them ere they took their departurefrom the South Branch. But now they did neglect the seeds of evangelical faithand purer life sown by apostles of these two reformers, and contented themselvesin an exhausting controversy with the most numerous unforseen difficulties everconfronting the physical man. As passing time separated them mor
. The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time .. . omulgated by John Wesley and George Whitefield. Their trumpet 216 EARLY SETTLERS AND INDIAN TROUBLES. like appeals had already reached and effected them ere they took their departurefrom the South Branch. But now they did neglect the seeds of evangelical faithand purer life sown by apostles of these two reformers, and contented themselvesin an exhausting controversy with the most numerous unforseen difficulties everconfronting the physical man. As passing time separated them more and more from the benign influencesof church organization, our readers can well understand that our forefathers hadconformed their lives to the broader theology of the Ten Commandments asagainst the dissenting, quarrelsome and destructive denominational doctrines whichare more often the Synogogues of Satin than the Temples of God. In this respect the settlement for the first twenty-five years of its existencewent through its golden age. The need of religious teaching from the view-point that personal activity. OLD CARPER CHURCH leads to growth, consecration and rectitude in all things, was very was a beginning of the preached word in 1781, according to an article writ-ten years ago by Rev. John W. Reger, by Rev. Bozeman at the home of JohnReger near Volga. Mr. Reger is mistaken in part about this. He says the mem-bers were John Reger and wife, Abram Casper and wife. The latter family didnot come here until the spring of 1800. In 1800 Shadrack Tappan, a Methodistminister of the Baltimore conference, ventured into the settlement and proclaimedthe mission of the Master. His sermon was delivered in the home of Abram EARLY SETTLERS AND INDL-^N TROUBLES. 217 Carper, whose anxiety for the church was second only to his love and knowledgeof the Word upon which the church was superstructed. This service caused a rip-ple of excitement and speculation which waned with proc
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