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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on signed by a ma-jority of the members. The matter endedin a secession which cost the Church inCharleston nearly a third of its member-ship. Mr. Hammett set up for himself,giving his church the name of Trinity,and calling himself and his adherentsPrimitive Methodists. A second church was built in the city,and others were organized in George-town, in Savannah, and in Wilmington,North Carolina. The last named hadfor its pastor William Meredith, whogathered to it quite a number of negroes;but in a few years he split with Hammett,and at his death in 1799 left the societyand its property to the care of the Meth-odist Episcopal Church, which also finallyfell heir to Trinity Church. On Ham-metts death in 1808 he was succeededby a Mr. Brazier, who had served as amissionary in the West Indies. Thisgentleman saw fit to sell the property tothe Protestant Episcopal Church, butthe trustees, after a lawsuit, again cameinto possession of it, and finally unitedwith the Methodist Episcopal Church. 19
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A MANX FISHER GIRL AND HF,R HOMF„(290) CHAPTER XVI. THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD HIS PARISH. M SURVEYING of Methodist effortduring the ten or fifteen yearswhich preceded Wesleys death disclosesthe fact of its extraordinary expansive-ness. It was to no meaningless or rhe-torical phrase that Wesley gave utter-ance when he said: The world is myparish. Before the close of his life themovement of which he was the sourceand the organizer had made itself co-terminous with the English-speakingworld. The survey of its progress dur-ing the ten or fifteen closing years of hislife, which we propose to make in thepresent chapter, reveals it pushing itsway into the islands of the British andIrish channels, into the mountainouswilds of Scotland, into the seaboard andlake districts of British America, and intothe tropical sugar-producing islands ofthe Gulf of Mexico. As the population ofthe Atlantic states, forming the originalUnion, began to press southward andwestward, Methodist preachers followedi

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