Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-04-02
"A Methodist Pilgrimage Along Asbmy
Trails In The Wilmington Conference
Continued from page five

to meet all of these conditions, 1 do
hot know of any which has yet prov
cd title to the honor. While other
buildings, as Paul Revere's house in
Boston, may be older, they were re-
built and then restored. The only
presevative ever used on the old ex-
terror has been whitewash, as mixed
by the old-fashioned colored folks,
who give it the annual coat every
spring and take pride in doing it we'll.
The old keeper lives in his little cot
tage in the church yard and takes
pride in keping the grounds. In
it's congregation are some of the
wealthiest people of Talbot, but no
wealth has ever induced them to mar
its simplicity and beauty and history
as it stands in the grove of old oaks,
some of which were standing when
the building was erected.
Ten miles south of Easton is
Trappe and Bollngbroke, where AS
hurry in his journal records big re.
vival one year and the next he records
that the devil he'd gotten most of his
converts. The Frazier's flats or fer
ry mentioned in his journal has been
replaced by Dover bridge near the
same old crossing point. The bridge
is now a part of the State road in the
main line of motor traffic. If one
wishes to make a side trip of some 20
miles from the main motor road at
Hurlock, about is miles from Easton
he may visit Cambridge, thriving city
v here Freeborn Garretson was put in
Jail for preaching. 1t now has one of
the fine churches and congregations
ii Methodism. Some Is miles back
toward the main road will take him
to Salem, the birthplace of Bishop
Eurst, who did so much for Methodist
literature, history, education and the
american University. Reaching the
main road again at Rhodesdale, one
passes the Old McKendree Church
organized in 1817-which is still a
small country village congregation
Housed in a building recently built.
THE PARSON OF THE ISLAND
Crossing the Nanticoke river at
Sharptown, one speeds on to Sails
bury, some 20 miles further, over a
read which is comparatively new
leaving the old historic trails to the
right. Directly down the Nanticoke
river is Tangier Sound and the is
lands of the Chesapeake Bay, where
Joshua Thomas, the parson of the is
lands, did a work for Methodism and
God which is growing today, a 100
years later. To attempt to give an
abbreviated description of his work
would take all the space which could
be allotted to a single article. Are
they not written in the more than
four hundred interesting pages Of
"The Parson of the Islands ?"
At Quantico, five miles to the right
from Hebron was born in the Metho-
dist parsonage, the son of a Metho-
dist preacher, who afterwards be-
came Governor of the great State Of
Pennsylvania - Robert f. Pattison.
From an humble circuit parsonage to
the Governors mansion in 40 years
was rapid progress.
Salisbury, which now claims to be
the metropolis of the Peninsula, was
only a village of less than dozen
houses in Asbury's day. Here one
may see the home of a former Metho.
dist Governor of Maryland-Elihu E.
Jackson, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. The home of a former
Methodist Congressman, his brother
William H. Jackson, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, both of whom are
now dead. Ex- United States Senator
William P. Jackson is a son of Will
lam H. Jackson and is now an official
of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal
Church of Salisbury. Salisbury also
clais the honor of giving the aggres-
sive temperance leader and bishop Ct
the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, the Rev. James Cannon, Jr,
to the Methodist Church South.
If one follows that trail of Asbury
he will here go south to Princess
Anne some Is miles distant, the coun-
ty seat. of one of the oldest counties
in Maryland, founded about 1860. In
Somerset county and the islands on
it's borders is located the scene of the
labors of Joshua Thomas-born in
l776-died in 1852-the parson of
The islands. In Somerset is located
often mentioned in
Journal. In Somerset is al
80 located the first Presbyterin house
Of worship in the United States
built by Francis Mackenzie in 1882