... about three hours, and when I closed my argument I opened the door of the Church, and invited all that would renounce Shakerism to come and give me their hand. Forty-seven came forward, and then and there openly renounced the dreadful delusion. The... Circuit-rider Days in Indiana - Page 11by William Warren Sweet - 1916 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
| Peter Cartwright - Biography & Autobiography - 1857 - 534 pages
...openly renounced the dreadful delusion. The next day I followed those that fled ; and the next day I went from cabin to cabin, taking the names of those...I then organized them into a regular society, and the next fall had a preacher sent. to them. And perhaps this victory may be considered among the first-fruits... | |
| Peter Cartwright, William Peter Strickland - 1862 - 286 pages
...openly renounced the dreadful delusion. The next day I followed those that fled ; and the next day I went from cabin to cabin, taking the names of those...truth, and my number rose to eighty-seven. I then organised them into a regular society, and the next fall had a preacher sent to them. And perhaps this... | |
| Indiana - 1914 - 456 pages
...openly renounced the dreadful delusion. The next day I followed those that fled ; and the next day I went from cabin to cabin, taking the names of those...first fruits of Methodism in that part of the new country.' .'17 By 1812 two more new circuits had been added, the Lawrenceburg circuit in the southeastern... | |
| William G. McLoughlin - History - 1978 - 260 pages
...then and there openly renounced the dreadful delusion. The next day I followed those that fled . . . from cabin to cabin, taking the names of those that...eighty-seven. I then organized them into a regular [Methodist] society and the next fall had a preacher sent to them. Cartwright's preoccupation with... | |
| Scott Gac - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 326 pages
...been stirred. After a meeting had secured forty-seven new followers, Peter Cartwright reported going "from cabin to cabin, taking the names of those that returned to the solid foundation of truth." Cartwright increased his number to eighty-seven.7 The link between revival ministers and actors was... | |
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