After leaving Geneva, he was sent to a small town to improve his German studies.
REV. RICHARD WATSON
Such was the intolerable anguish of his broken spirit, that he gladly resorted to the prayers of those whom he had formerly persecuted and insulted. On his return home, his clothes often bore witness to the harsh treatment meted out to him by his persecutors. As the young preacher ascended the pulpit, his appearance evoked irresistible apprehensions of failure on their part.
While on this circuit he began the study of the Hebrew language, in accordance with the advice of Mr. Watson to publish in the Manchester papers an appeal to the dissenters to oppose the passage of the bill. Watson was again appointed to Manchester, but before the end of the year his health failed, and he left for Liverpool.
His sermon on this occasion was considered by good judges to be one of the best. On the afternoon of the day on which this sermon was preached, the first meeting of the Missionaries was held in the Chapel at Leeds. Warrener, who was one of the first missionaries in the West Indies, under the supervision of Dr.
Watson published a defense of the doctrine of Christ's eternal sonship in opposition to. Also during the year, despite his physical weaknesses, he faithfully looked after the general interests of the association. At the conference of 1828, after he had duly resigned the presidency of the Association, he was appointed to the Manchester circuit.
REV. GIDEON OUSELEY
At one of the places on the tour, the Episcopal church was being repaired, and the service was held in the Methodist chapel. Hearing the latter preach one evening on the doctrine of the new birth, he remarked: “If all Methodists. Another of these distinguished missionaries was the Rev. Charles Graham, born in County Sligo.
Soon after, he was providentially introduced to the preaching and doctrine of the Methodists, and through their instruction, was soon led to the source of salvation. Graham's first sermon was preached on the streets of the village of Milltown, where he was a stranger. Graham, many eminent and respectable men were converted to the pure doctrines of the Gospel, from popery and error.
He returned to the priest in disappointment and told him of the constant anguish of his spirit. His appearance on such occasions was ridiculous enough to put a smile on the face of the most taciturn and serious. Ouseley retired, carrying with him the blessings of the poor creatures, for whose special benefit he labored.
The members, knowing the character of the intruder, suspected mischief, but said nothing to him. I am a wicked sinner!" Poor Pat's state of mind was unexpected to the members of the little class. In the course of his travels, while on this mission, he was the instrument of the conversion of a great believer.
REV. BISHOP ASBURY
He subsequently became a local preacher in the Wesleyan connection, which relationship lasted nearly five years, when, at the age of twenty-one, he gave himself entirely to the work of the ministry under Mr. Asbury, also a strict enforcer of the rules of discipline, but without the severity which characterized Mr. Rankin's administration, the latter could not but perceive that the devotion of preachers and people was more fully rested on Mr.
Soon after this correspondence, the memorable war of the Revolution began, which made the situation of some of the leading preachers uncomfortable in the extreme. Asbury placed himself in imminent danger, owing to the fact that one of the preachers was an Englishman named Rodda. However, continue to perform his duty as a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Wesley, and the great body of the American preachers, were considered irregular, and were consequently abandoned. Gave an apostle proof of the divinity of his calling by the success which attended his labors. Britain, besides the thousands in America, and in other parts of the earth, at the time of his death, answer this question.
Asbury to the same office, but he did not design the application of the term bishop to these newly created epicopies. Wesley, while rejecting the name bishop, was not opposed to the office itself. Asbury was appointed, but as the state of the work did not require three bishops, his election to the office was postponed until the time above mentioned.
REV. BISHOP WHATCOAT
For most of the time between the organization of the church and the time he was elected bishop, another consideration is that most of the early preachers, including the bishops, were unmarried. Yet it is evident that no men possessed so much enterprise and knowledge as they would have for the sake of the poor.
Agreeing to the doctor's partial release made it necessary, given Bishop Asbury's frail health, to elect an additional bishop. Prior to the election, there was much bad discussion about the powers of the new bishop, with it being argued that he should only be considered Bishop Asbury's aide. Wesley himself, as a fit person to be elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and who had even requested his election to that office.
On the 18th of May he was publicly consecrated to the episcopate by the laying on of the hands of Bishops Coke and Asbury, assisted by some of the elders present. Each of the annual conferences promptly recommended the same, except the Virginia conference, of which Rev. he could therefore say, in truth, than most bore of the pretended successors of St.
The mildness of his persuasions won over "the affections of the heart, while the rich stream of gospel truth which fell from his lips enlightened the understanding. And while we rightly attribute to him the qualities which constitute an 'able servant of the New. It is probably owing to the extreme meekness and modesty of Bishop Whatcoat that so little is now known of the peculiar and interesting incidents of his life.
REV. JESSE LEE
Lee was appointed to Salisbury County, where his work was greatly blessed for the good of the people. In December, he received an official message informing him of the arrival of Dr. This seemed to me like an opening from the Lord: so I told her I would.
I told him that if he thought that any one should go to the newly settled parts of the country, that he was the man to go. November a gentleman went with him to the high sheriff for the purpose of getting the court house. From the relationship between the above facts, the reader can assess the obstacles and obstacles that were placed in.
Lee had the even greater satisfaction of laying the corner stone of the first Methodist church in the city of Boston. Notwithstanding the decision of the town, the Society decided to proceed with the construction of the building. Lee would undoubtedly have been the choice of a large majority of the preachers, yet in obedience to the previously expressed wishes of Mr.
Whatcoat, the latter was elected bishop of the Church by a few votes. In 1814 he was elected Chaplain of the Senate, a position which he also held with great honour. However, we must not understand that he was an ignorant man in the general acceptance of the term.
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REV. BENJAMIN ABBOTT
The first place I went, the man and his wife were both religious teachers and members of the Baptist church. Accordingly, he began to read the various creeds, articles of religion, etc. of the various churches, and then read the Bible from beginning to end, pertaining to the same subject. Abbott, being a Methodist, was exposed to the scorn and ridicule of the ungodly and profane, who, under the pretense of.
Then the preacher said, "You deny the perseverance of the saints." "God forbid," replied the gentleman. The minister replied that he could slit such a man's throat, and that it made his blood boil to hear the perseverance of the saints denied. Abbott continued to wield the "sword of the Spirit"—the word of God, and with a loud voice proclaimed the horrors of the law, finally causing the assailant to recoil from him and retreat to the door.
Abbott asked the people what they thought of it and whether they did not think it was of the devil. The consequence of the construction of this house was the "moralization and Christianization" of the entire neighborhood. I took my saddle-bags and went to the house; the man took me into a private room and desired me to preach in favor of the war, as I was in a Presbyterian settlement.
He was a justice of the peace, and he was the person I had noticed at the time of the sermon, and I noticed that he was in great distress of mind. Boehm, the owner of the house and a preacher among the Germans, exclaimed: "I never saw God in this way before." I answered, it is a feast of Pentecost, father. He immediately began to dispute the matter, telling me that it was all a hoax and the work of the devil.
