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 . hearers to believehim mad, and in some placeshe was treated with consid-erable roughness under thissupposition. One of the Epis-copal clergymen of Dinwiddiecounty, Virginia, the Jarratt, who enter-tained him at his parsonage,describes him as a plain, art-less, indefatigable preacher,who delivered his discourses
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 . hearers to believehim mad, and in some placeshe was treated with consid-erable roughness under thissupposition. One of the Epis-copal clergymen of Dinwiddiecounty, Virginia, the Jarratt, who enter-tained him at his parsonage,describes him as a plain, art-less, indefatigable preacher,who delivered his discoursesin an animated and attractive six years of this active itinerantlife in the colonies were granted this period he married, and, athis death on September 26, 1775, he lefta widow behind him. Perhaps no onein America, wrote Asbury, has beenan instrument of awakening so manysouls as God has awakened by Williams were associated some ofthe earliest native Americans who be-came Methodist preachers and Watters, when a young man oftwenty-one, accompanied him in 1772 ona tour through Maryland and Virginia,and there received his introduction toitinerant work. The name of Williamsis not one to be lightly passed over PEMBROKE;. There is a singular lack of defmitenessin our information respecting the workof Williams in America. The variouspurchases made from time to time in hisbehalf which appear in the John streetrecords show that he assumed chargetemporarily of the organization. Tendays after Pilmoor arrived in the Dela-ware, Williams was at Philadelphia tomeet him, and in the week or two fol-lowing he preached several times in thatcity- Thereafter he set out for Maryland,where Strawbridge was much in need ofhelp. He became the pioneer of Meth-odism in Virginia, and it was during oneof his tours in 1774 that Jesse Lee, thefirst historian of Methodism, joined theconnection. Though often in feeblehealth, Williams was a singularl
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