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 . endree arrived in the district, andor the next eight years presided over;he work on the western frontier. He;oon formed the conviction that a time)f sifting was at hand, and that affairsmust be managed very cautious y so thatwhen reaction should come, the Churchmight be able to resume the even tenorof its way, with its disc
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 . endree arrived in the district, andor the next eight years presided over;he work on the western frontier. He;oon formed the conviction that a time)f sifting was at hand, and that affairsmust be managed very cautious y so thatwhen reaction should come, the Churchmight be able to resume the even tenorof its way, with its discipline and prestigeunimpaired. At the close of his fourth year of super-vision the results shown in the Kentuckyhstrictwere eminently encouraging. In1S00 there was a total membership of1941 whites and 116 blacks. By 1804the number of whites had risen to11,141, and of colored to 784. Theeleven itinerants, who had in the earlieryear supplied one district, had now in-leased to forty-five, supplying four dis-tricts. The tour which Asbury made to theCumberland district and the West in thefall of 1800 possesses a good deal of in-terest, as we read of it in his was accompanied by his old friendWhatcoat, now elected a bishop of theChurch. They began what he terms. BIRTHPLACE OF BISHOP JOHN F. HURST. The place is in Dorchester County, Maryland. The house was built about 1801. their grand route to Kentucky at theclose of September, and reached Bethelon Saturday, the third of October. As-bury felt much fatigued by the long horse-back journey of a hundred and forty-fivemiles, through rough country, and wasin a state of mental dejection. BishopWhatcoat, he tells us, and Wil-liam McKendree preached: I was so de-jected I could say little—but weep. Sab-bath day it rained and I kept at is Bethel—Cokesbury in miniature,eighty by thirty feet, three stories, witha high roof, and finished below. Nowwe want a fund and an income of threehundred dollars per year to carry it on
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