Emma Polk Harris

“ He began his labors in Savannah, preached and read the liturgy daily, forded rivers, crossed swamps, slept on the ground, fasted, and went barefooted among the children at school to encourage those who had no shoes. ”

“ Copies of all the editions are in the Lenox library, New York city, the Library company of Philadelphia, and the Historical society of Pennsylvania. He did his own type-founding, wood-engraving, paper- and ink-making, and binding, carrying on also a large business in his father's medical preparations, which he sent to various parts of the country. He was one of the founders of the Germantown academy, to which he largely contributed. ”

“ Abel Stevens, D. D. (3 vols., New York, 1859-'62) ; “History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America,” by the same (4 vols., New York, 1864-'7; abridged ed., 1868) ; the “Living Wesley,” by Dr. James Harrison Rigg (London, 1875) ; and “Journal of John Wesley,” in his works, edited by John Emory (7 vols., New York, 1835) . — His brother, Charles, clergyman, b. in Epworth, England, 18 Dec., 1708; d. in London, 29 March, 1788, was graduated at Oxford in 1732, and in 1729 was the founder of the society there which, under the leadership of John, was the beginning of Arminian Methodism. ”

“ He also was an opponent of slavery, and his advocacy of the doctrines of universal peace caused him to be misunderstood, so that during the Revolution, though he did not espouse the British cause, he was arrested and imprisoned. ”