A Century Of Methodism In Germantown Classic Reprint

Excerpt from A Century of Methodism in Germantown Shrader; both mother and daughter were members of St. George's Church, and lived in the city of Philadelphia. The mother objected to the mar riage, on account of there being no Methodist meetings held in German town; the Academy building at that time being closed against them, Mr Regar promised the mother that if she would consent to her daughter marrying him, and they making their home with him in Germantown, he would take both mother and daughter to St. George's Church on Sundays until there should be regular services by the Methodists in Germantown. Upon this promise, the mother gave her consent, and on the twelfth day of November, 1799, Jacob Reger was married to the daughter, Dorothy Shrader, by the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper. (see Church record of St. George's Church.) At this time Jacob Reger was not a member of the Church. Mother and daughter moved to Germantown. Brother Reger kept his promise, and soon after that date Opened his house for public worship. The house is still standing on the southeast side of Haines street, about midway between the Main street and the present parsonage. From that time on until the year 1803, the Methodists, whose motto was, and ever should be, Onward and Upward, held their meetings in private houses; sometimes in the house of Brother Reger, sometimes in the house of Brother Joseph Jacobs, a frame house which stood at the corner of Main and Mill streets (the site now occupied by Eberle's drug store); and at other times in the shop of Frederick Axe, on the southwest side of the Main street, below Washington lane. (the property now belongs to Mrs. Ann Keyser.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The relationship between John Wesley and George Whitefield has often been viewed as suffering from irreconcilable theological differences. In fact, for several years, the relationship between these two leaders of the revival of the Christian faith in eighteenth-century England was strained almost to the breaking point. Whitefield, a Calvinist, believed that each individual who ever lived was either destined for the glories of heaven or the horrors of hell due to an irrevocable decree of God. Wesley on the other hand argued that each person has placed before them two options: either to accept God's forgiveness or to reject it in favor of following one's own way. Most books in the past have focused on these John Wesley's and George Whitefield's differences, but what has been overlooked is the lasting friendship between these two men, which, after a brief period of separation, was restored for the sake of the continuation of the revival movement on two continents. Catholic Spirit: Wesley, Whitefield, and the Quest for Evangelical Unity in Eighteenth-Century British Methodism focuses on the key themes upon which both men agreed. It stresses the commonalties between the two leaders of British Methodism and illustrates the great lengths both went to in order to further the revival of the Christian religion in England and North America. Both Wesley and Whitefield claim to possess "Catholic spirits," that is, they both believed the importance of working with other like-minded individuals to spread the message of salvation through Christ. Author James Schwenk argues that they were successful in promoting that spirit of cooperation, even as some of their followers failed to understand how hard they worked at making "molehills out of mountains."

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