| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 898 pages
...society, consisting of 8 or 10 persons, who, to use his own language, " came to him and desired him to spend some time with them in prayer, and advise them how to flee from the wrath to come." This was the origin of the Methodist society. From the foundery church, which was afterward converted... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 874 pages
...society, consisting of 8 or 10 persons, who, to use his own language, " came to him and desired him to spend some time with them in prayer, and advise them how to flee from the wrath to come." This was the origin of the Methodist society. From the foundery church, which was afterward converted... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - Methodists - 1864 - 340 pages
...and earnestly groaning foi redemption. They desired (as did two or three more the next day) that he would spend some time with them in prayer, and advise...they saw continually hanging over their heads. That he might have more time for this great w^ork, he appointed a day when they might all come together;... | |
| 1865 - 156 pages
...earnestly groaning for redemption. They desired — as did two or three more the next day—that he would spend some time with them in prayer, and advise...they saw continually hanging over their heads. That he might have more time for this great work, he appointed a day when they might all come together;... | |
| Abel Stevens - Methodism - 1866 - 302 pages
..." In the latter end of .the year 1739, eight or ten persons came to me in London and desired that I would spend some time with them in prayer, and advise them how to flee from the wrath to come ; this was the rise of the UNITED SOCIETY." " This," he tells us, " was soon after the consecration... | |
| Abel Stevens - History - 1866 - 288 pages
..."In the latter end of the year 1739, eight or ten persons came to me in London and desired tliat I would spend some time with, them in prayer, and advise them how to flee from the wrath to come; this was the rise of the UNITED SOCIETY." " This," he tells us, " was soon after the consecration of... | |
| Moses Lewis Scudder - Methodist Church - 1867 - 636 pages
...them how to flee from the wrath to come, which they saw continually hanging over their heads. That we might have more time for this great work, I appointed...when they might all come together, — which from henceforth they did every week, — namely, on Thursday, in the evening. To these, and as many more... | |
| Albert Henry Redford - Methodist Church - 1869 - 526 pages
...and earuestly groaning for redemption. They desired (as did two or three more the next day) that he would spend some time with them in prayer, and advise...they saw continually hanging over their heads. That he might have more time for this great work, he appointed a day when they might all come together,... | |
| J. B. Johnston - History - 1870 - 356 pages
...and earnestly groaning for redemption. They desired (as did two or three more the next day) that he would spend some time with them in prayer, and advise...they saw continually hanging over their heads. That he might have more time for this great work, he appointed a day when they might all come together ;... | |
| Albert Henry Redford - 1870 - 522 pages
...and earnestly groaning for redemption. They desired (as did two or three more the next day) that he would spend some time with them in prayer, and advise...they saw continually hanging over their heads. That he might have more time for this great work, he appointed a day when they might all come together,... | |
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