Identifier: 02845216.425.emory.edu
Title: The history of Methodism (electronic resource)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: New York : Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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ver-nor of the State, and one of its judges. From boyhood hehad a thirst for knowledge. Having decided to enter thelegal profession, at eighteen years of age he accepted a posi-tion in the office of an eminent lawyer in Middlebury. Find-ing, however, that he could not attain to the distinction hecoveted without a liberal education, he entered MiddleburyCollege, and, fired with the ambition to become Chief Justiceof the United States, studied with all his power. He gradu-ated with the honors of his class. His distinction was gainedat a dear rate. Four and a half years of intensest applicationhad so broken down his iron constitution and shattered hisnerves that he was left with little capacity for any work forhalf the rest of his life. He went south in search of health and employment. J. ames Olins Conversion 983 E. Glenn received him into his home in Cokesbury, S. C, andas a trustee of the village academy secured him a position.Glenns influence largely shaped Olins early Southern life,
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PAINTED BY WEST. ENGRAVED B PRUDHOMME STEPHEN OLIN, D. D. President of Wesleyan University, 1842-1851. and was one of the agencies employed to give it an un-looked-for turn. Finding that he was expected to open thedaily sessions of school with prayer, he composed and pri- 984 American Methodism vately rehearsed forms of prayer to meet the demand. Inabout six months he was awakened, and from that time, forthree months, he sought the mercy of God until he found thedivine favor. In 1824 he was admitted to the South CarolinaConference, and stationed at Charleston. As a preacher he was remarkable. In him logical power,spiritual feeling, and vehement utterance were so blendedthat his sermons moved on as a mighty tide of thought andfeeling. Failing health compelled him to cease preaching.In 1829 he became professor of belles-lettres in the Universityof Georgia, where for seven years he rendered brilliantservice, but all the while suffering from broken health. Hebecame president of Randolph-M

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