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See also:ASBURY, See also:FRANCIS (1745–1816) , See also:American clergyman, was See also:born at Hamstead See also:Bridge in the See also:parish of See also:Handsworth, near See also:Birmingham, in See also:Staffordshire, See also:England, on the loth of See also:August 1745. His parents were poor, and after-a brief See also:period of study in the See also:village school of See also:Barre, he was apprenticed at the See also:age of fourteen to a maker of " See also:buckle chapes," or See also:tongues. It seems probable that his parents were among the See also:early converts of See also:Wesley; at any See also:rate, Francis became converted to See also:Methodism in his thirteenth See also:year, and at sixteen became a See also:local preacher. He was a See also:simple, fluent See also:speaker, and was so successful that in 1767 he was enrolled, by See also:John Wesley himself, as a See also:regular itinerant See also:minister. In 1771 he volunteered for missionary See also:work in the American colonies. When he landed in See also:Philadelphia in See also:October 1771, the converts to Methodism, which had been introduced into the colonies only three years before, numbered scarcely 300. Asbury infused new See also:life into the See also:movement, and within a year the membership of the several congregations was more than doubled. In 1772 he was appointed by Wesley " See also:general assistant " in See also:charge of the work in See also:America, and although superseded by an older preacher, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Rankin (1738–181o), in 1773, he remained practically in See also:control. After the outbreak of the See also:War of See also:Independence, the Methodists, who then numbered several thousands, See also:fell, unjustly, under suspicion of Loyalism, principally because of their refusal to take the pre-scribed See also:oath; and many of their ministers, including Rankin, returned to England. Asbury, however, feeling his sympathies and duties to be with the colonies, remained at his See also:post, and although often threatened, - and once arrested, continued his itinerant See also:preaching. The hostility of the See also:Maryland authorities, however, eventually drove him into See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile in See also:Delaware, where he remained quietly, but not in idleness, for two years. In 1782 he was reappointed to supervise the affairs of the Methodist congregations in America.
In 1784 John Wesley, in disregard of the authority of the Established See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, took the See also:radical step of appointing the Rev. Thomas See also:Coke (1747–1814) and Francis Asbury superintendents or " bishops " of the church in the See also:United States. Dr Coke was ordained at See also:Bristol, England, in See also:September, and in the following See also:December, in a See also:conference of the churches in America at See also:Baltimore, he ordained and consecrated Asbury, who refused to accept the position until Wesley's choice had been ratified by the conference. From this conference See also:dates the actual beginning of the " Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States of America." To the upbuilding of this church Asbury gave the See also:rest of his life, working with tireless devotion and wonderful See also:energy. In 1785, at See also:Abingdon, Maryland, he laid the corner-See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone of Cokesbury See also:College, the project of Dr Coke and the first Methodist Episcopal college in America; the college See also:building was burned in 1795, and the college was then removed to Baltimore, wherein 1796, after another See also:fire, it closed, and in 1816 was succeeded by Asbury College, which lived for about fifteen years. Every year Asbury traversed a large See also:area, mostly on horseback. The greatest testimony to the work that earned for him the See also:title of the " See also:Father of American Methodism " was the growth of the See also:denomination from a few scattered bands of about 300 converts and 4 preachers in 1771, to a thoroughly organized church of 214,000 members and more than 2000 ministers at his See also:death, which occurred at See also:Spottsylvania, See also:Virginia, on the 31st of See also:March 1816.
His See also:Journals (3 vols., New See also:York, 1852), apart from their importance as a See also:history of his life work, constitute a valuable commentary on the social and See also:industrial history of the United States during the first See also:forty years of their existence. Consult also F. W. See also:Briggs, See also:Bishop Asbury (See also:London, 1874) ; W. P.
See also:Strickland, The See also:Pioneer Bishop; or, The Life and Times of Francis Asbury (NewYork, 1858) ; J. B. Wakeley, Heroes of Methodism (New York, 1856) : W. C. Larrabee, Asbury and His Co-Laborers (2 vols., See also:Cincinnati, 1853) ; H. M. Du Bose, Francis Asbury (See also:Nashville, Tenn., 1909) ; see also under METHODISM.
End of Article: ASBURY, FRANCIS (1745–1816)
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