INCIDENTS, CHARACTERS #5 - ELIZABETH RUSSO
Subject: INCIDENTS, CHARACTERS #5
From: ELIZABETH RUSSO
Date: October 25, 1998

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. All rights reserved.

Chapt. One [cont.]

        But they pushed on over the head of every opposition, and at
last found themselves the owners of four churches.  They were constant
and faithful, firm and zealous.  Every interest of the Church was cared
for; every ordinance kept up--prayer meetings, love feasts and class
meetings.

        It may seem strange to some of our readers, but tickets to love
feasts were issued quarterly, and no one was admitted without one.  They
could be procured only by serious persons, who were admitted only three
times unless they wished to join.

        My parents were admitted this way as probationers, and professed
afterwards.  My father was licensed to preach, and with other local
preachers served the country churches often fifteen or twenty miles
distant.  Duke Goodman, a wealthy cotton factor, and other men of means,
furnished these men with horses.  Goodman finally failed and removed to
Mobile, Ala.

        The introduction of this paper has consumed so much space that I
cannot ask more of the Advocate this week.  By permission of the editor
I will continue in the next issue or as soon thereafter as may fill his
spaces.

Jno. DuBois
Eutaw, Ala.

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