"The conditions is hence bad today that nothing's out only crows as well as Methodist preachers." - popular colonial saying
Early American Methodist circuit riders were known for their persistence to spread the gospel, as well as Francis Asbury (1745-1816) develop the standard.
He rode through unsafe Revolutionary War zones, unfriendly Indian territory, as well as remote wilderness. Insults, difficult circumstances, malaria as well as exhaustion couldn't operate on him down. At times he was hence ill that he strapped himself to his Equus caballus hence he wouldn't autumn off.
His passion was to percentage the gospel, as well as he became a legend inwards his ain time.
When he died at historic menstruum 71, his eulogist said, "What could he produce that he did non do? For he...wore out his life for the expert of homo as well as for the glory of God."
Sometimes nosotros read nigh such saints as well as experience defeated because they develop the touchstone hence high. Instead, nosotros should ask, "What 1 affair tin I produce today that I did non produce yesterday for the sake of Christ?"
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Francis Asbury was inspiring inwards hence many ways that I could non agree them into a 1-minute devotion, only I desire to cite this 1 indicate for which I peculiarly admire him. He spoke against slavery 100 years earlier the Civil War. He talked to George Washington nigh taking a stand upwards against slavery. Washington didn't produce it, only Washington freed his slaves on his death, as well as I wonder if Asbury inspired him to produce this. Asbury took dark pastors on his circuit rides at times. And when white Methodists treated dark Methodists poorly, he took the side of his dark brothers as well as sisters.
Resource: Francis Asbury, Circuit Rider, yesteryear Janet as well as Geoff Benge
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