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CHAPTER XIII. FIRST CAMP-MEETING ON THE PENINSULA, 1805. The introduction of camp-meetings into the Peninsula formed a new era in Methodism in that section of country. Worshiping in the groves, God’s ...

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CHAPTER XII. BALTIMORE AND PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCES, 1805—ST. MARTIN’S CIRCUIT. Having a little ecclesiastical business, I attended the Baltimore Conference in Winchester, Va., on April 1, 1805. I was...

CHAPTER XI. DAUPHIN CIRCUIT, 1803-4. This circuit was very large, and the people were mostly Germans. We had thirty appointments, and at twenty of them we preached in German. Under the first sermon I ...

Chapter II. The Injured Foot The first of these things was at the house of Madame Hohlakov, and he hurried there to get it over as quickly as possible and not be too late for Mitya. Madame Hohlakov ha...

Not to admire is all the art I know, To make man happy and to keep him so. "Well," he said, after giving me time thoroughly to appreciate the marvels of this underground sea, "do you feel strong enoug...

CHAPTER X. SHORT TOUR WITH BISHOP ASBURY, 1803. Bishops Asbury and Whatcoat visited my circuit on the 18th of July. Bishop Whatcoat preached in Bristol, and Bishop Asbury in Burlington; after which I ...

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CHAPTER IX. PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE, 1803—BRISTOL CIRCUIT. The Philadelphia Conference met at Duck Creek Cross Roads, now Smyrna, in May, 1803, in the meeting-house of the Friends, so that we could ha...

CHAPTER VIII. KENT, BRISTOL, AND NORTHAMPTON CIRCUITS. During the interval between the Baltimore and the Philadelphia Conference Bishops Asbury and Whatcoat spent some time on the Peninsula. They visi...

CHAPTER VII. MY SECOND CIRCUIT, ANNAMESSEX, 1802. Bishops Asbury and Whatcoat visited my circuit previous to the Conference of 1801, which was held in Philadelphia. We had then but two houses of worsh...

CHAPTER VI. MY FIRST CIRCUIT, DORCHESTER. In January, 1800, I began my regular itinerant life. It was on Dorchester Circuit, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in Philadelphia Conference. The peninsula...

CHAPTER V. PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE—GREAT REVIVALS—BARRATT’S CHAPEL. We reluctantly bade adieu to our kind friends in Baltimore on Saturday, May 24, 1800, and started for Duck Creek (now called Smyrna)...

Chapter 13 Luke Brown’s long fingers rested on the gray-brown door. He turned his head to look at me, the corners of his mouth lifting in a half-smile. “Lucy White, have you misunderstood something?” ...

CHAPTER XXI. “Hire facounde eke full womanly and plain, No contrefeted termes had she To semen wise.” —CHAUCER. It was in that way Dorothea came to be sobbing as soon as she was securely alone. But sh...

Chapter 6: The Trunk The man drove faster than Ling Yu had expected, apparently unwilling to let go of her rudeness toward him so easily. But when she thought about it, he had been rude first. And in ...

CHAPTER IV. GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1800. The General Conference of 1800 was one of the most remarkable in the history of our Church. The revival at that time was the greatest that has ever occurred dur...

CHAPTER III. BOEHM’S CHAPEL. Great interests cluster around the early Methodist chapels. Boehm’s Chapel is distinguished for its antiquity. It was the first Methodist house of worship built in Lancast...

CHAPTER II. SKETCHES OF EARLY PREACHERS. The Methodist fathers were self-sacrificing men, who possessed great virtues, and performed heroic deeds. Many of them are now unknown except by their names. T...

CHAPTER II Jane Fairfax was an orphan, the only child of Mrs. Bates’s youngest daughter. The marriage of Lieut. Fairfax of the ——regiment of infantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and ...

REMINISCENCES OF REV. HENRY BOEHM. CHAPTER I. MY ANCESTORS AND MY EARLY DAYS. My forefathers were from Switzerland. There is romance in their history as well as in the land of their birth. Jacob Boehm...

CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. My Ancestors and my Early Days 9 II. Sketches of Early Preachers 19 III. Boehm’s Chapel 30 IV. General Conference of 1800 35 V. Philadelphia Conference—Great Revivals—Barratt...

PREFACE. For many years, and by many persons, including bishops, editors, and others, I have been importuned to publish the substance of my records and recollections of the Methodism of my day. It was...

TO THOMAS A. MORRIS, D.D., AND HIS COLLEAGUES, THE BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, THE WORTHY SUCCESSORS OF THE APOSTOLIC ASBURY, IS THIS VOLUME MOST AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY HENRY BOEHM...

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The patriarch of one hundred years This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no rest...

Chapter 9 It had seemed like such an ordinary day. I had made breakfast, eaten with William, and walked him to the door. William had said goodbye to me as usual. I had smiled, stood on my tiptoes, and...

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CHAPTER XLV V alancy and Barney turned under the mainland pines in the cool dusk of the September night for a farewell look at the Blue Castle. Mistawis was drowned in sunset lilac light, incredibly d...

Fang Runing descended three floors before she truly understood what Fang Ru'an had meant by “there are more of them now.” The stairwell looked the same, but something stood on every landing: figures i...

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IV. Sehen Sie, wiederum: Nun gut, mag das nur ein Traum gewesen sein! Aber die Empfindung der Liebe dieser unschuldigen, schönen Menschen zu mir ist für alle Zeiten in mir geblieben, und ich fühle, da...

The Transformation of Old Mombi The Witch was at first frightened at finding herself captured by the enemy; but soon she decided that she was exactly as safe in the Tin Woodman’s button-hole as growin...

CHAPTER XXXII Before closing these notes, it might be as well to give an idea of the position Sarawak occupies with regard to its external relations. In 1888 a treaty placing Sarawak under British pro...

Chapter 4 That evening, I came out of the bathroom after washing my hair to find Ethan waiting by the door with a hair dryer. "Come here—I’ll dry your hair." His tone was flat, his expression awkward,...

CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m opening out like the largest ...

CHAPTER TWENTY HE PREPARES A STRATAGEM BUT FINDS HIMSELF COUNTERMINED—PROCEEDS ON HIS JOURNEY, AND IS OVERTAKEN BY A TERRIBLE TEMPEST. In the course of this journey, Ferdinand, who was never deficient...

CHAPTER IX. DISASTER We loaded Daniel Hinchman with all he could lug through the thicket, and more than it would be possible for him to carry comfortably; but the need of those of us who lived through...