Glimpses #141: Francis Asbury, Best-Known Man in America
Product Code: GLM141
Format: 4-page bulletin insert
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Product Description: At the ripe age of twenty-four, Asbury was promoted to the rank of "assistant." His superior reproved him for a tendency to "ramble" the district and to exceed his authority. Two years later, Asbury volunteered for America where such rambling would prove to be a virtue.
He landed in Philadelphia on October 27, 1771. Life in the towns was pleasant enough but harsh in the boondocks. Asbury noted, "My brethren seem unwilling to leave the cities, but I think I shall show them the way." Show them he did. Almost as soon as he was assigned to New York, he pushed his horse twenty miles out of the city to preach at Westchester. Visiting other villages, he formed a "preaching circuit." Such circuits would form the backbone of American Methodism. Circuit riders would push through such bad weather it became a common saying, "Nobody out but the crows and the Methodists."
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