Word: methodist
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...Methodist Episcopal Church in Gloucester City, N. J., was burned early Sunday morning. The loss is quite heavy. An adjoining frame building was partly destroyed...
...discovered to me the character of Mrs. Butterfield. She was of a religious turn of mind, probably the daughter of a Methodist circuit rider, and had made a resolve, in early life, during the Sunday school book period, that her first born son should be a minister, and backed by her mother and after innumerable conferences with her Bible, she had tearfully bullied Mr. Butterfield into naming their first born Benjamin. Knowing, as I did, that Benjamin Emilius had inherited some of the puritanical precocity of his mother, I felt very strongly that he would be surprised...
...trustees of the Wesleyan Female College have decided to discontinue the institution, and return their charter to the Methodist conference...