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
I preached at Mr. Heath’s, a little below Morrisville. There were two
brothers, who were mechanics, and in partnership, working in a shop
about forty yards from the preaching place. One got ready for meeting,
and asked his brother if he would not go. He said he could not spare the
time, and added, “You had better stick to your work also.” He replied,
“I am determined to go to meeting, let the consequences be as they may.”
After he was gone the brother who stayed home with a determination
to work was suddenly taken sick with a violent fever, and instead of
working, he was not able to help himself even to a drink of water, and he
was in perfect misery all the time his brother was gone. As soon as his
brother returned the fever left him, and he was able to join his brother
in work. When I came round on the circuit the same thing occurred over
again, that made it still more strange. At the next appointment for
preaching both the brothers went to hear the word, and we were invited to
make their shop a regular preaching-place, which we did, as it was much
more convenient than the other.
Near Morristown, on this circuit, a house of worship had been erected by
the Rev. Mr. Demer, who also built the Forrest Chapel in Berks County.
He was a Swedish minister. When he first heard the Rev. Joseph Pilmoor,
one of Mr. Wesley’s missionaries, preach in Philadelphia, he welcomed
him as a minister of God preaching the truth as it was in Jesus, and
after a time his Church property and the society were transferred to the
Methodists. My colleague and myself used to preach there.
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