The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-30
EARLY loHIo MErHoD1sM.

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 Lorenzo Dow, Peter Cartwright and
 Other Famous Circuit Riders.
 One of the favorite remarks of the late Bishop c. C. McCabe was that Lin ccln would have made "a magnificent circuit rider. Certaily the more nem- orable among that body possessed much of Lincoln's courage, his hunor, his humanity and consecration to duty as they saw it. Few ronances, says the Youths Companion, can equal that of early Chio Methodism. No part of the United States found more fruitful field cr yielded a greater harvest.
 In 1S16 John Stews.t, a free mulat- to, living in Marietta, addicted to drunkenness and on the way to the river to drown himself, heard the voice of circuit rider, stopped at the church door to listen and went home with an awakened conscience, He soon volun- teeed to so among the Indian tribes and tell his story. Wandering north ward he came to a Wyandotte village on the Sandusky river. He could read and sing, and he soon had the whole tribe under his influence He died at the age of 37, mourned and honored the first American missionary of the Methodist Eplscoual Church.
 One of Stewards converts was Be- tween -the-Logs, Wyandottte chief He was born at Lower Sandusky, now Fremont, Ohto, took the American side in the War of 1872 and accompanied Harrison in his invasion of Canada.
 Bishop McCabes uncle, Dr. L. D. McCabe, a notable Ohio Methodist, was named after that famous circuit rider Lorenzo Dow. Dow was celebrated for his eccentrfctties of dress and speech as well as for his zeal He wore no buttons on his coat, but tied the gar ment around his waist with a rope. He would make appointments to preach months in advance and so implicit WAS the faith in his promises that on the appointed days great crowds would gather from miles around One in- stance is recorded where Dow preached thus punctually to the minute of an ap- pointment made five years previous.
 
 Of Peter Cartwright, an Ohio "son of thunder, licensed to preach at the ago of r, it is said that his cincuits were like lines of battle. One quarter ly meeting was held in the woods. A mob led by two champions with loaded whips invaded it. Cartwright seized one after the other of the principal rioters, threw them down, and aided by friends, secured thirty persons, whom he marched off to an empty tent, had them guarded over night and brought all to justice. His sermon that day was from the text 1.-The ates of hell shall not prevail"
 Cartwright during his sixty-five years of preaching received 12.0OO mem bers into the church
 The camp meeting originated and at tained the highest development in Ohio Under Bishop NfcKendree such was the leagerness of the people to attend that the roads were literally crowded with those pressing their way to the groves. Entire neighrborhoods were forsaken for | a season by their inhabitants. A bish- ops salary at that time was from s29 | to $50 a year and travellin expenses. From this pittance he had to buy his clothes and provide for his family.
 We can only sit at thelr feet" Bish- op McCabe said to his distinguished predecessors in Ohio Methodism; yet the heritage of the fighting chaplain" who forty years after the cival war never passed the portrait of Lincoln without saluting it, was inalienable.