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.

Body of Noble Men

	It was an occasion never to be forgotten.  Many a man of today, in the
meridian of life, looks back upon it as one of the happiest days in his
boyhood life.  The Alabama Conference of that day was a body of noble
men.  They were earnest, zealous and self sacrificing.  They were
watchmen, that slept not on the post of duty--soldiers, true and brave,
that quailed not before danger, nor whined at hardships.  The voice of
command was followed by obedience, and the hardest field was the post of
honor.

	We might mention several ministers now living that were present as
members of that Conference and many that have passed over the river. The
preaching was good.  A deep spiritual unction accompanied the word, and
while there was nothing to be characterized as a revival, the Church was
warmed up and the spiritual strength of many was renewed.

	Maffit was there in the prime of life and the zenith of his eloquent
career.  His history has been too well and too often written for me to
attempt to portray his character as a man or his style as an orator. 
Let it suffice to say, he was a preacher of superior powers and a
revivalist of the highest order.

[To be continued]

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