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 . ed in this nar-rative , as the last American towhom Wesley wrote. Whena boy he once listened ear-nestly to a discourse deliv-ered by Freeborn Garrettsonto the soldiers of the Revolu-tionary army, in which hisfather served as an the ministry i n1785, at the age of twenty-two, he served in New Jer-sey, in Mas
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 . ed in this nar-rative , as the last American towhom Wesley wrote. Whena boy he once listened ear-nestly to a discourse deliv-ered by Freeborn Garrettsonto the soldiers of the Revolu-tionary army, in which hisfather served as an the ministry i n1785, at the age of twenty-two, he served in New Jer-sey, in Massachusetts, andin the Middle States. In17.)8 he succeeded JohnDickins as book agent, andproved himself to be a pru-dent and skillful businessman. In 1S0S he again re-sumed itinerant labors, and was active asan itinerant and a local preacher duringa singularly long and vigorous life. Adiligent student and a keen observer,he was a wonderful repository of knowl-edge. At the time of his death he issaid to have been the oldest Methodistpreacher in the world. One of the most trusted leaders atthat time was Philip Bruce, a Virgin-ian by birth and a Huguenot by de-scent. Entering the itinerant minis-try at the close of the RevolutionaryWar, he soon won the confidence of his. THK OLD WILKS STRKKT MKTHODIST KPISCOPAI, CHURCH, BAVTIMORK, in i8oi, it was the immediate successor of Strawberry Alley Church. associates and superiors. A man offine personal appearance and of dignifiedmanners, he possessed a clear intellectand a determined will, and was, more-over, thoroughly devoted to the never married nor located, and forthirty-seven years continued to occupypositions of great responsibility, involv-ing dangerous and fatiguing the Ohio river in the West to thewaters of the Suwanee in the South hewas known and trusted. At the closeof his active career, in 1S17, Free-born Garrettson alone surpassed him in 394 The Illustrated History of Methodism. length of se
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