. The history of Methodism. ho acts as an assistant to send an account of the workonce in six months to the general assistant. The last item of business was the reading of the appoint-ments : New York—Thomas —George Shadford. (These to change in four months.)New Jersey—John King, William Watters. Baltimore—Francis Asbury, Robert Strawbridge, Abraham Whitworth,Joseph Yearbry. Norfolk—Richard —Robert Williams. Thus is the whole Atlantic coast divided among a few itin-erant preachers. They had scanty funds, but intense energyand high hopes. Compare the few name
. The history of Methodism. ho acts as an assistant to send an account of the workonce in six months to the general assistant. The last item of business was the reading of the appoint-ments : New York—Thomas —George Shadford. (These to change in four months.)New Jersey—John King, William Watters. Baltimore—Francis Asbury, Robert Strawbridge, Abraham Whitworth,Joseph Yearbry. Norfolk—Richard —Robert Williams. Thus is the whole Atlantic coast divided among a few itin-erant preachers. They had scanty funds, but intense energyand high hopes. Compare the few names and brief recordsof the Minutes of the Conference of 1773, printed on a fewduodecimo leaves, with the voluminous General Minutes ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, South, and other branches of American Methodism,with their octavo volumes of more than a thousand pagespacked with the statistics of two hundred Annual Conferencesand the appointments of nearly forty thousand CHAPTER XThe Parting of the Ways Return of Boardman and Pilmoor to England.—Their SubsequentCareer.—Atkinsons Valuable Service.—Methodist History.—Pilmoors Vindication.—The Unity of the Brethren. THE earliest pair of Wesleyan missionaries, Boardmanand Pilmoor, received no appointments, though bothwere present at the Conference of 1773. We haveno statement of the reasons for this omission, though weknow that their work had been adversely criticised by Asbury,complaints had been sent to Mr. Wesley, and Rankin hadgiven ear to the charge that they had been lax in the applica-tion of the Rules. The enactment of the Conference restricting the attend-ance upon love feasts to members of society was evidentlyaimed at them. Nothing was said, or indeed could be,against their faithful preaching, their self-denying devotion,and their loving ministry. The two friends remained in America but six monthslonger, preaching and helping the other preachers in NewYork,
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