. The history of Methodism. America. Its dimensions were forty-two by forty-eightfeet, and it is reported that one who stood by wagged hishead, saying twas no use to put up so large a buildingfor the Methodists; for after the Y\-ar a corncrib would holdem all. Never was false prophet so confounded by events ;never did a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of themountains yield more bountiful harvest. According to the Minutes of the Conference held at Phila-delphia, 1775, twenty preachers—one half of them mission-aries from the British Wesleyan body—were appointed toten circuits, New York
. The history of Methodism. America. Its dimensions were forty-two by forty-eightfeet, and it is reported that one who stood by wagged hishead, saying twas no use to put up so large a buildingfor the Methodists; for after the Y\-ar a corncrib would holdem all. Never was false prophet so confounded by events ;never did a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of themountains yield more bountiful harvest. According to the Minutes of the Conference held at Phila-delphia, 1775, twenty preachers—one half of them mission-aries from the British Wesleyan body—were appointed toten circuits, New York, Philadelphia, Trenton, Greenwich,Chester, Kent, Baltimore, Frederick, Norfolk, and Bruns-wick, scattered along the seaboard from the Hudson to Cape 247 248 American Methodism Hatteras. The total persons in society was3,148, one half of whom were in Maryland and was the status of American Methodism in the yearin which the war broke out. Contrast with these meager statistics the figures reported. DRAWN BY J. P. OAVIS. FROM A WOODCUT. BARRATT S CHAPEL. The grandest country chapel in America. Where Coke and Asbury met. One milefrom Frederica, eleven miles southeast of Dover, Del. in the Conference Minutes of 1784, the first Conference afterthe war. The Minutes of 1775 hardly fill two pages in the printedvolume of the Old Minutes. The Minutes for 1784 requirefour times that space. Although but six of the ten earlycircuits are recognized by name, the whole number of cir-cuits arose to forty-six, traveled by eighty-three preachers, Adapted Wesleyanism 249 mostly American born. The numbers in membership lackedbut twelve of the round 15,000; the State of Maryland alone,where the opposition had been most determined, returningmore Methodists than were in the whole western world nineyears before. Many of the new circuits were subdivisionsand extensions of the old; but such names as Juniata, Hol-stein, Yadkin, Tar River, Camden, Redstone, Wilmington,and Pee Dee
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