The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
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or perhaps nifty miles. The old man.
our host. was kind enough to wake
us up at four IN the morning. We
Journeyed on through devious lonely
wilds where no food might be found
except what grew in the WOODS q.
was carried with us. VIE met with
two women who were going to see
their friends and to attend the quar-
ter1y meeting at C1arksburg.
Dogs Set ON ASbury.
Near midnight we stopped at As,
who Kissed his dogs at US, but the
women were determined to go to the
quarterly meeting SO we went in.
Our supper was tea. Brother Phoe-
bus and Cook took to the woods, old
gave up his bed to the women. I
lay along the floor on a few deer
skins with the feas. That night our
morning had to swim across the Mo-
nongahela. After a twenty mile ride
we came to Clarksburg and man and
beast were so outdone that it took
US ten hours to accomplish it.
E 81 lodged with Colonel Jackson.
Our meeting was held in a long close
room belonging to the Baptists. Our
use OF the house, :t seems, gave of
Tense.
There attended about seven hun
dred people to whom l preached with
freedom and believe the Lords
power reached the hearts OF some.
After n1in!stering the sacrament l
was we'll satisfied to take my leave.
I'VE rode thirty miles to Father
after 3 o'clock Sunday az
ternoon, and made it nearly II before
be came in. About midnight we went
to rest and arose at D o'clock the next
morning. NV mind has been severely
tried under the great fatigue endured
both by myself and my horse. oh.
how glad / should be of a plain, clean
plank to lie on, as preferable to most
of the beds, and where the beds are
in bad state the floors are worse.
The gnats are almost as troublesome
here as the mosquitoes in the low
will require much work to make it
tolerable. The people many of them
are OF the boldest cast of adventure
ers. and with some the decencies of
civilized society are scarcely regard
ed. The great land holders, who are
Industrious, will soon show the aris-
tocracy of wealth by lord!ng it over
their poorer neighbors, and by secur-
Ing to themselves all the Offices of
profit or honor. On the one hand
savage warfare teaches them to be
cruel and on the other the teaching
on Antinomians poisons them with err
ror in doctrine. Good moralists they
are not, and good Christians they
cannot be unless they are better
taught"
breaches in a Barn.
Mrs. John Mccullough. maiden
name Acres told Luther Raymond,
who was born in 1909, that she, when
a small girl rode on horseback from
lacks run to Clarksburg in 1888 to
hear Bishop Asbury in Daniel Dav-
issonis barn.
This barn stood on the west side OF
Second street between Main and Pike
streets.
Lorenzo Dow, the great travelling
preacher, preached in Clarksburg in
the 30's. When he appeared at the
court house he saw that it was not
large enough to hold the crowd and
he announced that he would hold the
service out OF doors. He led the way
down Main street, followed by the
large crowd across the bridge and
preached his sermon in the grove
near the Monticello spring.
The history of the Methodist Epis-
ccpal church by Stevens States that
the first local preacher of that denom-
ination in the neighborhood Of Union
Ftown was Robert Wooster and that
the first conference was held there
in 1881. 80
This was kown as the Redstone
conference and was composed of
western Pennsylvania and Virginia
and in 1885 numbered 523 members.
In 1886 a society was organized
at Calder Haymond's, on the Monon-
gahela river. about twenty miles
or twenty miles up towards
clarksburg a good society was formed
at the house of Jonathan Shinn, the
father OF the afterwards celebrated
preacher, Asa Shinn.
Methodism could obtain no footing
in Clarksburg for many years, but
some eight or ten miles up the West
Fork was fiourishing society head
ed by Moses Ellsworth.
Methodist Societies.
In this neighborhood was Joseph
usefulness and much loved by his
people. He was a Frenchman.
In 1886 there was also society
formed at Father Hackers 8on Hack
er's creek and also at Ruckhannon
and in the Tygart's Valley.
The Rev. Henry Smith. who visited
the Clarksburg circuit in 1894 speaks
of finding good society under charge
of Joseph Cheuront fifteen miles
The congregation that attended to
hear him preach were all backwoods
peopl and only one man present wore
shoes. The Rev. Mr.. Cheuyront wore
Indian moccasins. All the rest Of
the audience. men, women and chill