Asbury’s letters and related documents · Record 82

Lord’s Day, September 28, 1794 — to Ezekiel Cooper

Signed in the source: Francis Asbury.

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There were two churches in Brooklyn. Asbury preached three times on the Lord’s Day, at ten o’clock in the morning and in the evening at the old church. In the afternoon he preached in the new church.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Lord’s Day, September 28, 1794

[TO EZEKIEL COOPER]¹

My very dear Brother:

I am now satisfied that you should take your stand here till further orders. It is my wish that you should keep a conference with the preachers in this city, stationed and supernumeraries. It is my desire that once in five or six weeks each one of you should spend a Sabbath in Brooklyn. Brother Phoebus² has heard my mind. I want quarterly meetings to be held at each of the three houses, first at one and then at another. Meet the first day, and the following day call the leaders and stewards in conference, close conference, about the work of God and their souls, the order and harmony of the societies and their temporal supplies. Have a love-feast for all of the societies. Let me hear from you, and you shall hear from me. I have been greatly employed preaching three times this day; am going off early tomorrow morning.

Thine in love,

FRANCIS ASBURY

P.S. I give it as my real opinion, that you should have no open love-feast. Attend to this. F. Asbury

G.A. Phoebus, Beams of Light on Early Methodism, 190-91

Notes (2)

Pastor in New York. ↩
The appointments in 1794 for New York and Brooklyn read, E. Cooper, L. McCombs; supernumeraries, W. Phoebus, J. Brush, D. Kendall. (See Minutes, 1794.) J. Brush had been the presiding elder in 1793. Freeborn Garrettson was the presiding elder in 1794. ↩

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