We’ve all heard the names John and Charles Wesley, but there are a lot of other important names in the history of Methodism you may not know. The Unsung Heroes of Methodism series tells the stories of lesser-known figures whose lives and witness still impact The United Methodist Church today, even if their names aren’t familiar to us.He was a Methodist pastor, an American patriot, a strict pacifist, a committed abolitionist and one of the most passionate preachers of his generation. Freeborn Garrettson has been called “Methodism’s Paul Revere” because of the amount of time he spent traveling on horseback to preach the Gospel.
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ReplyDeleteAs having studying the early Methodist movement in Europe and America, it is widely held that Free was given the "Paul Revere" label for his amazing ride during December of 1784 to gather the preachers for the Christmas Conference which ordained Francis Asbury as the superintendent of American Methodism.
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