. The history of Methodism. ns College, Baltimore, Md. students is known. Some men who studied there took hisfh rank in after life, among them the Hon. Samuel White, a senator of the United States; Asbury Dickins, secretary of the United States Senate, and that powerful Methodist preacher, Rev. Valentine Cook. It is safe to say that, had its property been spared, the col-lege would have exerted a marked influence upon the condi-tion of the denomination and of the Middle States. The grass-grown ruin at Abingdon is a monument to thehigh ideals and painful sacrifices of the fathers. Xo one canvie
. The history of Methodism. ns College, Baltimore, Md. students is known. Some men who studied there took hisfh rank in after life, among them the Hon. Samuel White, a senator of the United States; Asbury Dickins, secretary of the United States Senate, and that powerful Methodist preacher, Rev. Valentine Cook. It is safe to say that, had its property been spared, the col-lege would have exerted a marked influence upon the condi-tion of the denomination and of the Middle States. The grass-grown ruin at Abingdon is a monument to thehigh ideals and painful sacrifices of the fathers. Xo one canview the site without a pang of sympathy for the hearts thatached over its failure. Yet out of that sorrowful experience 394 American Methodism has come the rich accomplishment of our own time, whenAmerican Methodism rejoices in its many colleges and is oneof the most powerful forces for education in the nation. Theold bell rescued from the hopeless ash heaps of Cokesburyhas found a home in the Womans College in Baltimore, and. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. THE COKESBURY STONE. This stone, taken from the ruins of Cokesbury College, was built into the foundation of theAmerican University, Washington, D. C a fire-scarred stone from the ruin at Abingdon is destined tobe the head of the corner of that college of the AmericanUniversity, in Washington, which perpetuates in our educa-tional system the name of Francis Asbury. CHAPTER XL Cheap Books for the People Consecrated Printers Ink.—Robert Williamss Pamphlets.— Rankins Rules.—John Dickins.— Ezekiel Cooper.—A UsefulInstitution. JOHN WESLEY ordained the printing press to be apreacher of Methodism. He has told how he came to bethe founder of a publishing house: In 1738, having adesire to furnish poor people with cheaper, shorter, and plainerbooks than I had seen, I wrote many small tracts, generally apenny apiece, and afterward several longer. Some of thesehad such a sale as I never thought of; and by this means, un-awares, I became ric
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