Identifier: 01861476.emory.edu
Title: The illustrated history of Methodism (electronic resource); the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present day. Written in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Lee, James Wideman, 1849-1919 Luccock, Naphtali, 1853-1916 Dixon, James Main, 1856-1933
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: St Louis New York : The Methodist magazine publishing co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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first the Observer and then the Register,and until the year 1850 proved himselfthe stanch and uncompromising advocateof civil and religious liberty and the foeof all that he deemed evil and oppressive.He was, however, hardly a peace-maker,and his later years were spent outside olthe Methodist community. He objectedto the act of the pioneer MethodistChurch in accepting aid from the statecoffers. A third son, Edward, who left Hullfor Adelaide late in the year 1836, was apillar of the Church. He arrived withhis wife, in charge of the first chest ofgold containing the necessary currency,his part being cashier and accountant ofthe new bank. Mrs. Edward Stephenswas an excellent woman, of saintlycharacter. She and her two sisters,one of them married to a distinguishedMethodist preacher, were centers of re-ligious influence. As manager of theBank of South Australia and as editorof a weekly journal, The Adelaide Mis-cellany, he was a leading man in the The Illustrated History of Methodism. 587
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PETKR THOMPSON AND OTHER NOTRD WESLRYANS. 1. W. Henry Thompson. s. William Parsousou. 15. Rev. James Cuthbertsou. 2. Wallace McMullen. 9. Rev. john PogSon. 16. Rev. Giffard Dorey. 3- Rev. J. F,. Moulton (Tonga). 10. Rev. John Posnett. 17. Rev. James )•;. Hargreaves. 4- George G. Findlay. „. George Patterson. 18. W. Rodwell Joues. 5- Alfred H. Vine.6. Charles Robertson.7- C.F. Nightingale. 12. William Nicholas. 13. Nehemiah Curnock. 14. Seth Dixon, 19. Rev. Peter Thompson. 20. Rev. C. T.Newman, Adelaide, South Australia. 588 The Illustrated History of Methodism. colony; and he added parliamentaryduties to his other cares. After eighteenyears in Australia his health brokedown, and he returned to England todie; but his name will always remain asone of the three chief pioneers of theMethodist Church in South Australia.That Church had the credit of erectingthe first stone edifice of the kind in thecity of Adelaide. Sixty years later thechurches in the colony had increased toover two hu

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