field-preaching

Had Bunyan then been discharged and allowed to enjoy liberty, he no doubt would have returned to his trade, filling up his intervals of leisure with field-preaching; his name would not have survived his own generation, and he could have done little for the religious improvement of mankind.

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Methodism; but 1739 was determined on, because then the first class-meetings were held, the first chapel at Bristol was opened, the first hymn-book published; then the United Societies were formed, then field-preaching began, and then Whitefield, Charles Wesley, and others held that historic lovefeast in Fetter Lane when the Holy

Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling

The time of field-preaching had now come; the Conventicles in the mountains and moors became the order of the day.

Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

Had Bunyan then been discharged and allowed to enjoy liberty, he no doubt would have returned to his trade, filling up his intervals of leisure with field-preaching; his name would not have survived his own generation, and he could have done little for the religious improvement of mankind.

The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

The resolution was a bold one, for field-preaching was then utterly unknown in England, and it needed no common courage to brave all the obloquy and derision it must provoke, and to commence the experiment in the center of a half-savage population.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

The institution of field-preaching by Whitefield in the February of 1739 carried the impulse through the great masses of the poor, while the foundation by Wesley, in the May of the same year, of the first Methodist chapel was the beginning of an organized body capable of securing and perpetuating the results that had been achieved.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

The other and still more important event was the institution by Whitefield of field-preaching.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

At last the embargo was raised, and committing his work to Wesley, whom he had drawn into field-preaching, he sailed in August, 1739, for

A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

It was John Wesley who sent Whitefield to America, from whom, on his first return to England, in 1738, he learned the practice of field-preaching.

A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

And yet these are some of the smallest inconveniences which accompany field-preaching.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887