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 . acted as precentor. The vesselbecame an asylum for poor immigrants,where they could find temporary quar- ters; and it also served as a labor of fair-haired immigrants weredirected to localities in the West, wherepositions awaited them. From New York the work spread toEurope. In the year 1849 Mr. Petersenvisi
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 . acted as precentor. The vesselbecame an asylum for poor immigrants,where they could find temporary quar- ters; and it also served as a labor of fair-haired immigrants weredirected to localities in the West, wherepositions awaited them. From New York the work spread toEurope. In the year 1849 Mr. Petersenvisited Norway on an evangelical tour;and, in the face of much opposition andcontemptuous interference from the StateChurch, he succeeded in making manyconverts. From 1853, when he was ap-pointed missionary, until 1856, heworked alone. Sarpsdorg, Fredericks-hald, and Christiania, the last-mentionedin 1861, were occupied in turn. In 1876Bishop Andrews formed the mission intoan Annual Conference, the membersnumbering nearly three thousand, whocontributed out of their scanty meansfifteen hundred dollars annually to aidin the work. In the year 1865 Mr. Cederholm, oneof the Norwegian missionaries, crossedover into Gottland, an island in theBaltic belonging to Sweden. In the. WTLI I AM BURT, Superintendent of Methodist Episcopal Missions in Italy. 716 The Illustrated History of Methodism.
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