. The history of Methodism. FROM A WOODCUT Or 1763. VALE COLLEGE. THE CHAPEL AND CONNECTICUT their appearance at the time of Asburys first visit. God. Even in Boston only twenty or thirty came to hearhis opening sermon, though a great room had been title of Bishop was still an offense in the nostrils ofthe sons of the Puritans, and this plain apostle had to suspected that those who professed friendship for ushad been ashamed to spread the notice of the came the next evening, but the sinners in the streetswere annoyingly boisterous, owing, perhaps
. The history of Methodism. FROM A WOODCUT Or 1763. VALE COLLEGE. THE CHAPEL AND CONNECTICUT their appearance at the time of Asburys first visit. God. Even in Boston only twenty or thirty came to hearhis opening sermon, though a great room had been title of Bishop was still an offense in the nostrils ofthe sons of the Puritans, and this plain apostle had to suspected that those who professed friendship for ushad been ashamed to spread the notice of the came the next evening, but the sinners in the streetswere annoyingly boisterous, owing, perhaps, to the loud- 444 American Methodism ness of my voice. He had no liberty, and determined toquit a place so inhospitable. When a stranger in Charles-ton, wicked Charleston, he exclaims, I was kindly invitedto eat and drink by many—here by none. A year later Lee joined a few poor people in society inBoston, the first in the city, on July 13, 1792. Lynn, with. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. THE NEW ENGLAND METHODIST CENTENARY GATHERING, 1866. This group of preachers and laymen was photographed on Boston Common, with the old elm in the background. its generous people, flourishing society, and neat chapel, wasa welcome relief from the buffetings of the capital city. Fromthis place, he prophesied, shall the light of Methodism andtruth radiate through the State. Here, in August, 1792, thebishop held the first Methodist Conference in New or nine preachers attended, among them the Rev,Hope Hull, a young man from Savannah, of remarkable elo-quence. The daily preaching, the spirited exhortations, the From Weakness to Strength 445 joyous hymns, the bishops ordination sermon, and the love feast on the last day of the session marked a religious occa-sion entirely new in the calendar of Puritan festivals. Themembership reported for New England already approacheda thousand. The district was divided, Brush presiding- inConnecticut, Lee in the East, whi
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