Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . as full of the subject ; and, as inthe case of Stephen, none could resist the spirit and wisdom with which hespake. He sat down to wait a reply, but none opened his mouth, or mut-tered, or peeped. The victory was complete; the debate was closed; allseemed love, and the angel of peace brooded over the consecrated He was several years secretary of the New York Conference,a member and secretary of the General Conference in 1804, anda membe
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . as full of the subject ; and, as inthe case of Stephen, none could resist the spirit and wisdom with which hespake. He sat down to wait a reply, but none opened his mouth, or mut-tered, or peeped. The victory was complete; the debate was closed; allseemed love, and the angel of peace brooded over the consecrated He was several years secretary of the New York Conference,a member and secretary of the General Conference in 1804, anda member again in 1808. 3 Rise of Methodism, p. 103. 4 Conference Minutes, 1810, p. 181. 5 William Thachers manuscript Autobiography. 186 Old Sands Street Church. During the last seven years of his life he suffered greatly fromasthma, and while this affliction developed his patience, it did notquench his zeal. He died suddenly from suffocation, January29, 1810, having conversed and prayed with his family a fewhours before his death. His remains were deposited in a vaultin the rear of the Forsyth-street church, New 6 See Lost Chapters, p. $&srif~ /7</£r*&^kn 0t eSz^ REV. DANIEL OSTRANDER. XXXIVDANIEL OSTRANDER. ohn Wilson and Elijah Woolsey were succeeded inthe Brooklyn charge by that shrewd and far-see-ing Methodist statesman, the Rev DanielOstrander. He was born in Plattekill, Ulster Co., N. Y. ,on the 9th of August, 1772. He sprang from a rugged andvigorous stock—his ancestors were from Holland. His con-version at the age of sixteen years was followed by the ear-nest and sincere devotion of more than half a century to thenoblest work that can engage the powers of a human the itinerancy at the age of twenty one, he wroughtgrandly for God and the church in the following APPOINTMENTS: 1793, Litchfield dr., Conn., with Lemuel Smith; 1794,Middletown cir., with M. Rainor; 1795, ordained deacon—Pomfret cir., ; 1796, Warren, R. I.; 1797, orda
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