Sketches of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, and its bibliography . om the Grand Sanhedrim. ThosePharisees were too proud and aristocratic to becomesuitable followers and exemplars of the lowly Naza-rene. Hence, He chose His disciples generally fromthe humbler walks of life, who could appreciate thewants and sympathize with the common people, whoheard the Master gladly. And from this same Asa Shinn, the subject of our sketch was was the son of humble Quaker parents, and wasborn in New Jersey, May 3d, 1781. In 1788, while hewas but seven years of age, his
Sketches of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, and its bibliography . om the Grand Sanhedrim. ThosePharisees were too proud and aristocratic to becomesuitable followers and exemplars of the lowly Naza-rene. Hence, He chose His disciples generally fromthe humbler walks of life, who could appreciate thewants and sympathize with the common people, whoheard the Master gladly. And from this same Asa Shinn, the subject of our sketch was was the son of humble Quaker parents, and wasborn in New Jersey, May 3d, 1781. In 1788, while hewas but seven years of age, his parents removed toVirginia, and settled in one of the inland counties ofthe State. For various reasons, that part of thecountry had very few literary advantages. There wereno public, and but few private schools. The land wasnaturally rough and mountainous, and consequentlybut sparsely settled by the poorer part of the people,who came there to secure cheap land. This sectionof the country being isolated from the more _ polishedand refined society in the east, by the want of roads. REV. ASA SHINN. THE METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH. 121 and other means of communication with the world,the inhabitants were almost as wild and uncultivatedas the game that reveled upon their cloud-cappedmountains. Here, in this wilderness section, so desti-tute of literary institutions and means of mental devel-opment, the youthful Shinn lived until 1795, whenhe was fourteen years of age, at which time, his pa-rents settled in Harrison county, in Western Virginia,on the West Fork of the Monongahela river. Althoughborn of Quaker parents, and no doubt received muchreligious instruction; yet we have no reason to supposethat he was more moral or refined than his youngcompanions at this period, as an incident in his lifewill prove. When he was about fifteen or sixteenyears of age, he came home one evening greatly intox-icated. His kind father received him in silence, andassisted him to bed. He then collected
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