INCIDENTS AND CHARACTERS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF METHODISM

By

The Reverend John Elmore DuBois

Edited by Elizabeth A. DuBois
(c) 1998  DuBois Publishing Co, Simsbury, Connecticut. All rights
reserved.

ELEVEN
[CONT.]

	While the men were busy in arranging all outside matters, the women
were no less so in their departments--washing, patching, mending and the
more fashionable ones in making new calicoes.  The rustics wains, too,
had an eye to Sunday dress, and on these occasions appeared in their
very best.  

	By Saturday, the meeting had generally assumed commanding proportions
and intense interest. People were seen crowding in from all
directions--pedestrians, and equestrians--sometimes three or four on one
horse--the mother of the family with the baby in her lap and two urchins
behind her, while the father walked before, coat on arm as a guide to
the faithful plow horse, which, drowzily, but safely and gently plodded
along.  Occasionally a buggy or carriage dashed up, freighted with the
"upper ten;" but more frequently a mule team, or an ox wagon, loaded
with country folks.

	The crowds were immense.  Services began at an early hour with
Lovefeast and prayer meeting, sermon and altar work.  Then the lunch
baskets, boxes and buckets were collected, cloths spread on the green
grass, everything arranged, and all were invited to partake.

[To be continued]

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