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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.

FOURTEEN
[cont.] 

        A free chapel was built near what is now known as Pickens Mill,
nine miles south of Greensboro, where Rev. Mr. Hillhouse, a zealous
Presbyterian minister, and others preached with great power and success,
in those early days, and soon all denominations had churches and very
neighborhood had the Sabbath occupied.

   But alas like the tides of the ocean, when they reach their climax, a
reaction takes place, and back they roll.  So it was in this section.

The fame of this region continued to spread and widen, population
continued to increase, especially the blacks.  The small planters
werebought out, improvements were made, the lands were cleared up, field
was linked to field and plantation to plantation, until the whole
country became one vast sea of corn and cotton.

[to be continued]

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