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Common terms and phrasesAbraham Amos Adjet admitted into full admitted on trial Anthony Houston appointed Benjamin Edge Benjamin Lakin Benjamin Young Caleb Charles Holliday Chartered Fund Church Cincinnati circuit rider Committee Conference proceeded cuit Cumberland David Young Destrict ence ference Francis Asbury frontier full connection George Askin Hezekiah Shaw Indiana Isaac Quinn Jacob Turman Jacob Young James Axley James Quinn James Ward Jesse Walker John Collins John McClure John Sale John Watson Joseph Oglesby Joshua Oglesby Josiah Crawford Kentucky Kentucky District Lawner Blackman letter Lewis Garrett Location Methodist Miami Miles Harper Milton Ladd Nathan Barnes Ohio opinion ordained Peter Cartwright preaching presiding elder proceeded to read properly recommended Quarterly Meeting Conference Ralph Lotspiech Resolved Richard Browning Samuel Parker Scioto Sela Paine Solomon Langdon Tennessee Thackston Thomas Hellums Thomas Kirkman Thomas Lasley Thomas Milligan Thomas Wilkerson Thos vote West Western Annual Conference Western Conference William Burk William Houston William McKendree William Pattison Popular passagesPage 65 - Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works : 15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words. Page 67 - This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; 19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away, concerning faith have made shipwreck... Page 64 - ... log-rollings, weddings, and so on, he was considered parsimonious and unsociable, and many, even professors of Christianity, would not help a man if he did not have spirits and treat the company. Page 66 - The next thing heard on the subject was a hammering in the class-leader's shop; and soon the stills in every brother's orchard were smoking, and the liquid poison streaming. When one called on another, the bottle was brought out, with the remark, I want you to taste my new brandy: I think it is pretty good. Page 87 - A man who is well mounted, will scorn to complain of the roads, when he sees men, women, and children, almost naked, paddling bare-foot and bare-legged along, or labouring up the rocky hills, whilst those who are best off have only a horse for two or three children to ride at once. Page 68 - It shall be the duty of every preacher who has the charge of a circuit to see that his circuit be duly supplied with books, and to take charge of all the books which are sent to him, from time to time, or which may be in his circuit; and he is to account with the presiding elder for the same. Page 67 - Well, it's tolerable; but I wish you would come over and taste mine; I think mine is a little better.' So they tasted and tasted till many of them got about half drunk, and I don't know but three-quarters. Then the very devil was raised among them ; the society was all in an uproar, and Paul was sent for to come and settle the difficulty. At first it was difficult to find sober, disinterested ones enough to try the guilty; but finally he got his committee formed; and the first one he brought to account... Page 88 - But kindness will not make a crowded log cabin, twelve feet by ten, agreeable: without are cold and rain; and within, six adults, and as many children, one of which is all motion; the dogs too, must sometimes be admitted. Page 88 - I found that amongst my other trials, I had taken the itch; and, considering the filthy houses and filthy beds I have met with, in coming from the Kentucky Conference, it is perhaps strange that I have not caught it twenty times: I do not see that there is any security against it, but by sleeping in a brimstone shirt: — poor bishop! Page 65 - Paul was a traveling preacher, and a Bishop, I presume, or a Presiding Elder at least, for he traveled extensively, and had much to do, not only in regulating the societies, but also in sending the preachers here, there, and yonder. He was zealous, laborious, would not build on another man's foundation, but formed new circuits where Christ was not named, so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, he had fully preached the gospel of Christ. References from web pagesPeter Cartwright Frontier Methodism in the Northwest Francis Asbury: The Journal - Vol. 1 Editors Vol. 74, pg 145, Ohio History :: esmas compras Bibliographic information
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