The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-08
FROM A SMALL BEGINNING.

The first meeting place in the new
world was a sail-loft in New York,
where in the day time busy hands
made sails for the Atlantic winds to fill,
but in the evening and on tho Sabbath
Philip Embury and other busy hearts
were making sails for wider COM
mcrcc and richer ireitage. Then
came the Pivotal action in relation to
this couatry at the Wesleyan conference
OF 1863 John Wesley made the state
mcnt: "We have Il pressing call from
our brethren in New York who have
built Q Westinghouse, to come over and
help them. Who is willing to go?"
The answer was: Richard Boardman
and Joseph Pilmoor." The question
then was, what can we do for them in
token OF our interest in them?" The
answer was, ''Lct us now make col
lection" And 500 were given by
ministers present to pay the passage
money for the first itinerants from
Britain to America
From that little beginning OF two
men sent oyer in 1863 has come the
the American Methodism OF this day
namely, = membership OF five millions
who bear the Methodist name, and OF
whom three hundred delegates OF the
Western section here assembled arc the
honored representatives. JohnWesley,
as ii anticipating the scene which .rcets
our eyes at this moment, and the
boupdlcss significance OF il, wrote few
weeks before his death to Ezekiel
Cooper, and 1t was his last communica-
ton to his spiritual communion in
America: 'See that you never give
place to one thought OF separating from
Your brethren in Europe. Lose no op-
portunity OF declaring to all men that
the Mcthodists are one people in all
the world, and that it is their lctcrmin-
alton SO 10 continue.
Though mountains rise and oceans roll
To sever lis in ran."
WELCOME TO TIE WORLD.
We recognize the distances you have
come, the wido spaces OF sea and land
4 you have travcrsod. but even these
weary milesa are all suggestive. They tell
the story OF the marvellous expansion
Z OF tho Wesleyan movement, its unwill-
insncss to take any backward step. All
the early Wesleyan leaders could write
M "Odysgv," but none could write an
I "Anabasis." They could wander wildly
in search OF souls, but never retreat to
the old camping grounds. Victories be-
You'd tho sea became juvenile habit.
Ccylon, where every prospect pleases,
has blossomcd beneath Methodist care
ever since the tirelcss Coke turned
tlitherward. True, he died on the way,
but ever since then tho corals beds be-
meath tropic seas have been his fit
mausolcum, while the ceaselcss waves
OF the Indian ocean have ever since been
singing rcquicms to his memory. Faith
I always keeps pace with the last foot
falls OF its immortal dead.
The Methodists OF to-day are those OF
the earliest Mcthodists, and We have
ample ground for hope that the time
. will never come when the Methodism
z OF the future will growweary OF the sor.
rows. Of tho strength, which has char
acterizedit in every decade OF its his
tory.
We recognize that'we are entertaining
the angels OF tho churches. Tho winds
nave caught up the story OF your speech,
the words that have fallen from your
pens, the sublime power OF your own
example. We have long been learners
ut your feet, and we shall be learners
here.
Brethren from the South, We greet
You with loving hearts. In your Nir-
GINA our common Francis Asbury estab-