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A Short History of the Methodists in the United States. to Which Is Prefixed, a Brief Account of Their Rise in England
A Short History of the Methodists in the United States to Which Is Prefixed a Brief Account of Their Rise in England Author:Jesse Lee General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1810 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. from the year 1779, to the time of our being formed into a regular church, in 1784. 1779. On the 18th day of May, the seventh conference was held at the Broken back church in Fluvanna county !n Virginia. Previous to this conference, the preachers in the northern states held a preparatory conference at Thomas White's, in Delaware state, in order that their sentiments might be carried by brother William Waters, to the conference in Virginia : for it was judged to be improper for brother Asbury to leave his solitary retreat, to go to Virginia. However the conference determined that brother Asbury ought to act as general assistant in America. At the preparatory conference (so called) ihe preachers concluded for every cxhorter, and local preacher, to go by the directions of the assistants, where, and only where they were appointed to labour. There were two new circuits taken in at this conference, namely, Matichen and Dclatvare. The name of one circuit in Virginia was changed from Lunenburg to Mecklenburg; and some of the circuits which had been left out of the minutes last year, were inserted in the minutes for this year, viz. Philadelphia, Chester, and Fred- crick. James-City circuit was left out of the annual minutes for this year. We had twenty circuits in all; and forty-four preachers were sent to them, to travel and preach among the people. We had a large addition of members to the society this year.. In the different circuits we added, 2482 members. In some places the work ofGod spread rapidly, and bore down all before it. But in many places the societies were thrown into...« less