. The history of Methodism. e died, in August, 1773. Nearly sixty years afterwardhis remains were disinterred from their lonely resting place,on the Bininger farm, and removed to Ashgrove, where hehad gathered the first society formed north of New Yorkcity. An eloquent oration was pronounced on this occasionby the Rev. John Newland Maffitt. In 1866 the remainswere again removed and placed in the Gods acre at Cam-bridge, N. Y. The monument over the grave of the carpenter preacherbears this inscription: PHILIP EMBURY The earliest American Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church here found his
. The history of Methodism. e died, in August, 1773. Nearly sixty years afterwardhis remains were disinterred from their lonely resting place,on the Bininger farm, and removed to Ashgrove, where hehad gathered the first society formed north of New Yorkcity. An eloquent oration was pronounced on this occasionby the Rev. John Newland Maffitt. In 1866 the remainswere again removed and placed in the Gods acre at Cam-bridge, N. Y. The monument over the grave of the carpenter preacherbears this inscription: PHILIP EMBURY The earliest American Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church here found his last earthly resting place Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. Born in Ireland, an Emigrant to New York, Embury was the first to gather a class in that city, and to set in motion a train of measures, which resulted in the founding of John Street Church, the cradle of American Methodism, and the introduction of a system which has beautified the earth with salvation and increased the joys of CHAPTER XV Tory! Tory! A Significant Blunder.—Grounds for Distrust of the Metho-dists.—John Wesley Goes into Politics.—The Calm Addressand the Turbulence it Evoked.—Truth and Error.—TheRepresentative American Church. AT the close of a Methodist meeting in White Plains,N. Y., shortly after the Revolution, when the preach-er gave the usual invitation for interested persons tomeet him for private conversation, among those who remainedwas an old gentleman who had been a devoted Loyalistthroughout the war. He had heard that the Methodistpreachers were secret emissaries of King George, who werenow intriguing to reestablish the British dominion here, andhe wished to connect himself with their organization. Whenhe found that what he had mistaken for a Tory club was infact a religious society he took his hat and went out, saying, If that is the case, I am done with you. The old gentle-mans amusing blunder was only an exaggeration of an errorwhich many pers
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