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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. FROM THE CONFERENCE OF 1800, HELD AT DUNWORTH, ON HOLSTON, ON THE FIRST FRIDAY IN APRIL, TO THE CONFERENCE HELD AT BETHEL ACADEMY, KENTUCKY, COMMENCING ON THE SIXTH DAY OF THE FOLLOWING OCTOBER. Local preachers--John Nelson--Robert Strawbridge--Francis Clark--Gabriel and Daniel Woodfield--John Baird--Benjamin Northcutt--Nathanael Harris--Philip W. Taylor--Henry Ogburn--William Forman--Joseph Ferguson--The Conference in the spring of 1800--The General Conference--William Burke--Thomas Shelton--Controversy with the Baptists--William Burke chosen Presiding Elder--The Revival--Sandusky Station--William Algood--Hezekiah Harriman--John Sale--Jonathan Kidwell. We have now reached a period in the history of Methodism in Kentucky from which we may survey the chief instruments by whose influence it attained its position at the close of the last century. For several years previous to the appointment of Messrs. Haw and Ogden to the District, Kentucky had been constantly receiving accessions from the older settlements, some of whom had been members of the Methodist Church in the States whence they came. They had, with reluctance, left the altars around which they had worshiped, and had come to the West, cherishing the hope that, at no distant day, their new homes would be visited by the ministers of Christ, of their own denomination. The Revolutionary war, which had been protracted beyond the expectations of the infant Kepublic, had greatly retarded the enterprises of the Church, and prevented, at an earlier period, the occupancy of this distant field. Indeed, the societies that, under the auspices of the preachers sent out by Mr. "Wesley, and those who joined them, had grown up in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and North...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151117331
- ISBN 13 9781151117335
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages114
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