Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-01-21
TUT IItI t'7IyTIU ItHIse
Methodist History on the Peninsula.

Sin 1919 Mr.. Joseph Hartley, being
shut up in Jail in Easton, Talbot Co, Nd,
during the months of August and Septem-
Der, saw the arm of the Lord made bare in
that town, in raising up a Methodist
Society. He was kept in confinement
almost three months. While in prison he
preached through the CRATES Of the windows
to the people who assembled around the
jail. Many were awakened, and brought
to seek the Lord, thus was Methodist
society raised up at Easton, which still con.
tlnues. No doubt the people We're at first
| attracted by curiosity, to see one of those
wonderful men that were turning the
world upside down, when lie seized the
opportunity and preached unto them
Jesus. Those who were under concern for
their souls, assembled daily, to receive in
structlons fr0n him, as to how they could
he saved. His enemies seeing they were
turtherinR the cause, they wished to arrest,
and fearing be would convert the ,cLoLl
torn and country, took bail of him and dis.
charged him. The magistrate that com.
mltted him TO jail was taken sick unto
death, and sent to the prison for him to
| come and pray with and for him, and made
this confession: When sent YOU to Jail
| was lighting against God, and now | am
about to leave the world, pray for me- To
the bystanders he said. DO not think
| am out OF my senses, or ignorant Of what
am saying. This is a servant OF God, and |
request that he may preach my funeral, for
he breaches the true faith"
"ln March 1880, Messrs Philip Barratt
and Waitman Sipple took the lead in
erecting Barratto Chapel It is AZ 10y is
| feet, built of bricks, two stories high and
had vestry room connected with il. 1t
was then, and for years after. far the grand.
est country chapel that the Methodists had
| in America. By the fall of this wear it wa,
enclosed, and bad ground floor, with
! rough seats and pulpit, and was occupied
| "a place OF worship. 1t was not finished
! till two generations passed away. In
! Novetaber 1850 the first quarterly meeting
! was held IN 1t. 1t was supposed that there
] wer" thousand people in attendance. Dr.
! McCiaw, M"ssrs. A~bury, Hartley. Pedi
cord and Cromwell, were there to oficiate. "
| Barratt's Chapel is memorable on &C.
! count of the anecdote of the gentleman
! who wished to know the use that was to bp
made OF it. Being informed that 1t was Ia
| be Il place Of worship tor the Methodists
his reply was, 1t is unnecessary to build
such a house. for by the time the war i.
over a corn crib will hold them ALL Also
as being the place whore Dir. Coke and Mr.
| Asbury had their first interview, and where
the prellminares of forming the Metho
dists into a church began in this country
! The seat on which they sat in the pulpit
on that occasion, is still preserved in the
| same place az a memento."
| " Mr. Asburv settled the rules of the
Chapel, appointed stewards, and made ar
engagements for the preachers to meet and
| instruct the children"
! The same year the MethodiSts wore
engaged in building Moore's, Browns
Whites, and Clouds Chapels. all in the
State of Delaware" In April 1880 the
| Conference met in Baltimore. Question
twentythree dSapproped Of dstjHhy gram
into liquor. and proridcd for disowatog The
-lethOdtSts that continued the practice"
| " Mr.. Caleb Boyer was brought to the
Lord under the ministry of Mr. Garrettson
IN l7IS, and soon became a preacher. lie
was great sxtemporiser, and considered
as one OF the greatest preachers that the
| Methodists then had. To his scintilatins
genius was added humility and true devotion
to the cause of Christ. lie was said to be
the Paul Of Methodl.nl on the Peninsula
while he itinerated. 1t was the opinion OF
Msssrs. Whatcoat and Massey that they had
not heard Methodist preacher in England
Messrs. Wesley and Fletcher excepted
that was equal in ability to Mr.. Boyer
Early in this century he died, and was in
t"rred at Wesley Chapel Cemetery in
Dover" He was relative of the Lamb.
din's. of this place, of which DR.. Thomas J,
Lambdin and family are the representa-
tive. SPIN
SMYRNA, Jan. 18th, 1880