Chapter XXXI

The first Methodist Preachers—The army—Capt. Webb—Tuffey—George
Neal—Lyons—School-teacher—Exhorter—McCarty—Persecution—Bigotry—
Vagabonds—McCarty arrested—Trial—At Kingston—Banished—“A
martyr”—Doubtful—Losee, first Methodist missionary, 1790—A
minister—A loyalist—Where he first preached—“A curiosity”—
Earnest pioneer Methodist—Class-meetings—Suitable for all
classes—Losee’s class-meetings—Determines to build a
meeting-house—Built in Adolphustown—Its size—The subscribers—
Members, amount—Embury—Those who subscribed for first church in
New York—Same names—The centenary of Methodism—New York
Methodists driven away—American Methodist forgetful—Embury and
Heck refugees—Ashgrove—No credit given to British officers—
Embury’s brother—The rigging loft, N. Y.—Barbara Heck—Settling
in Augusta—First Methodist Church in America—Subscribers—“Lost
Chapters”—The Author’s silence—What is acknowledged—“Severe
threats”—Mr. Mann—To Nova Scotia—Mr. Wakely “admires piety”—Not
“loyalty”—Second chapel, N. Y.—Adolphustown subscribers—Conrad
VanDusen—Eliz. Roblin—Huff—Ruttan—The second Methodist chapel—
The subscribers—Commenced May, 1795—Carpenter’s wages—Members
Cataraqui Circuit—Going to Conference—Returns—Darias Dunham—
Physician—First quarterly meeting—Anecdotes—Bringing a “dish
cloth”—“Clean up”—The new made squire—Asses—Unclean spirits—
Losee discontinues preaching—Cause—Disappointment—Return to New
York—Dunham useful—Settles—Preachers travelling—Saddle-bags—
Methodism among loyalists—Camp-meetings—Where first held in
Canada—Worshipping in the woods—Breaking up—Killing the Devil—
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CHAPTER XXXIa.

Henry Ryan—Ryanites—He comes to Canada—His associate, Case—At
Kingston—A singer—Preaching in the market-place—Their treatment—
In office—His circuit—1000 miles—What he received—Elder—
Superseded—Probable cause—A British subject—During the war of
1812—President of Conference—“High-minded”—Useful—Acceptable to
the people—Desired independence by the Canadians—How he was
treated—His labors—Brave—Witty—“Fatherless children”—“Impudent
scoundrel”—Muscular—“Methodists’ bull”—“Magistrate’s goat”—Ryan
seeks separation—Breckenridge—Conduct of the American
Conference—Ryan’s agitation—Effect upon the Bishops—First Canada
Conference—At Hallowell—Desire for independence—Reasons, cogent—
Fruit of Ryan’s doings—The way the Conference treated Ryan—
Withdraws—No faith in the United States Conference—Ryan sincere—
“Canadian Wesleyans”—The motives of the United States Conference
questionable—The wrong done Ryan—Second Canada Conference—Case,
first Superintendent—Visit of Bishop Asbury—Account by Henry
Bœhm—Asbury an Englishman—During the rebellion—A Bishop—His
journey to Canada—Crossing the St. Lawrence—Traveling in Canada—
An upset—“A decent people”—His opinion of the country—The Bishop
ill—At Kingston—Bœhm at Embury’s—A field meeting—Riding all
night—Crossing to Sackett’s harbor—Nearly wrecked 295