The patriarch of one hundred years : $b being reminiscences, historical and biographical, of Rev. Henry BoehmBoehm, Henry
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The patriarch of one hundred years : $b being reminiscences, historical and biographical, of Rev. Henry Boehm
Boehm, Henry
Boehm, Henry, 1775-1875; Methodism
More than a dozen years rolled away before Asbury visited Pittsburgh
again; that was in August, 1803, the year I traveled with him almost to
this place, and then returned. On Sunday, August 27, 1803, the bishop
preached in the court-house in the morning from 1 Chron. vii, 14 to about
four hundred people. He says, “I would have preached again, but the
Episcopalians occupied the house. I come once in twelve years, but they
could not consent to give way for me. It is time we had a house of our
own. I think I have seen a lot which will answer to build upon.”
We put up with John Wrenshall. On Sunday the bishop preached on the
foundation of the new meeting-house at nine o’clock to about five hundred
hearers. Text, Mark xi, 17, “My house shall be called of all nations the
house of prayer,” etc. I exhorted. At two o’clock I preached at Brother
Cooper’s house from 1 John iii, 1, “Behold what manner,” etc. At five
Asbury preached again on the foundation of our Church to a thousand
people. The bishop adds: “The society here is lively and increasing in
numbers, and the prospect still is good in this borough.”
On Monday morning we left Pittsburgh, piloted for a few miles by John
Wrenshall.
The next day we reached John Beck’s. There I carved my name on a tree,
with the date of our being there. The old tree may still be standing
to witness that Henry Boehm was there the 30th of August, 1810, over
fifty years ago; but where is our host, his family, and his guests? They
have fallen; I am left alone. On we traveled to a camp-meeting at Little
Kanawha. James Quin was presiding elder of the district where it was
held. We were the guests of Richard Lee, brother of Rev. Wilson Lee.
On Sabbath morning, at eight o’clock, I preached from Prov. xviii, 10.
Bishop Asbury at eleven, from 1 Tim. iv, 16, “Take heed unto thyself,
and unto the doctrine,” etc.; after which he ordained John Holmes to the
office of an elder. There were a great many such ordinations wherever
the bishop traveled. It accommodated those who could not go far to
conference. At three James Quin gave us a powerful sermon from 2 Thess.
i, 7-10, on the second coming of Jesus. I preached again in the evening.
On Monday morning the Lord’s supper was administered; after which the
bishop preached a profitable discourse on 1 Peter v, 7-9.
We left the encampment, and I preached at Brother Wolf’s, in German, from
Acts viii, 35. I had great liberty in speaking to a people who had not
heard the Gospel in their mother tongue in ten or twelve years. Bishop
Asbury held forth in English immediately after. James Quin continued with
us several days, and he was most excellent company.
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