A History Of The Rise Of Methodism In America - Media Sabda Org
A History Of The Rise Of Methodism In America - Media Sabda Org
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O Jacob, and thy tabernacles (camp meetings), O Israel!" Many of the Budd's have been in church<br />
fellowship with the Methodists, and a fair proportion of them were preachers.<br />
Mr. Daniel Heisler joined the Methodists in New Mills, in 1773; he was leader of a class. He<br />
moved to Maurice's river, where he served in the capacity of class leader and steward, for twenty-five<br />
years. He afterwards moved to Christiana, Del., where he was a leading man among the Methodists.<br />
After he had been a Methodist fifty-four years, thirty of which he professed and exemplified<br />
sanctification, he died in his seventy-fourth year, and was buried at Newark, in New Castle county.<br />
Catharine, daughter of Mr. Ezekiel Johnson, was the first white child born in New Mills. She was<br />
one of the first Methodists in the place. She married William Danley, a local preacher, who seems<br />
to have been a member of the same society. <strong>The</strong>y moved to Port Elizabeth. Losing her husband, she<br />
married Mr. Ketchum, and after his death Mr. Long. After she had sojourned with the Methodists<br />
sixty years, she departed this life, in her eighty-third year.<br />
<strong>In</strong> April, 1773, the foundation was laid of the first Methodist chapel in New Jersey. Mr. Asbury<br />
does not tell us where it was, but some suppose that it was the first Methodist chapel in Trenton; he<br />
says it was thirty by thirty-five feet. Vol. i., p. 48. It was not the New Mills House, which many<br />
suppose was the first meeting house founded by them in the province; and, which he describes, vol.<br />
i., p. 136, as being twenty-eight by thirty-six feet.<br />
He says, "At New Mills I found Brother W., very busy about his chapel, which is thirty-six feet<br />
by twenty-eight, with a gallery fifteen feet deep. I preached in it, from Matt. vii. 7, with fervor, but<br />
not with freedom, and returned to W. B." (most likely William Budd). "Lord's day (May 5, 1776),<br />
I preached at New Mills again, and it was a heart affecting season." Mr. Asbury did not visit this<br />
region again for five years, when, in 1781, the fame of Benjamin Abbott, who had just made his<br />
famous preaching tour in Pennsylvania, led him into New Jersey, to see and hear this wonderful<br />
preacher. Vol. i., p. 325.<br />
From the above we see that the New Mills house was opened for worship about 1776. It was the<br />
second chapel founded in the state by the Methodists, about 1774 or 1775.<br />
[See reference to the following passage in the <strong>In</strong>troduction] Trenton was founded in 1719,<br />
forty-two years after Burlington, by William Trent, who had previously been a citizen of<br />
Philadelphia. About 1700 he purchased the famous "slate-roofed house," as it was then called, which<br />
had been built by Samuel Carpenter, whose descendants are found about Salem, in New Jersey. He<br />
was the greatest improver of Philadelphia, in its incipiency, that lived in it. This house, now the only<br />
relic of the time in which it was erected, i. e., about 1690, stands on the southeast corner of Second<br />
street and Norris' alley. No one should attempt to separate its bricks and mortar, which have adhered<br />
together for more than one hundred and seventy years; in it William Penn lived, on his second and<br />
last visit to Pennsylvania; his son John, the only one of his children born in <strong>America</strong>, was born in<br />
it. Lord Combury, Queen Anne's cousin, and governor of New York and New Jersey, sojourned in<br />
it. Governor Hamilton lived in it. General Forbes and General Lee, who was such a churchman that<br />
he did not wish to be buried near Presbyterian dead, were both buried from this house; and John<br />
Adams, when attending Congress in this city, boarded in it; and, yet, how few of the many hundreds