Identifier: 04965944.emory.edu
Title: A history of Methodism (electronic resource): comprising a view of the rise of this revival of spiritual religion in the first half of the eighteenth century, and of the principal agents by whom it was promoted in Europe and America; with some account of the doctrine and poli
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: McTyeire, Holland Nimmons, 1824-1889
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Southern Methodist Publishing House
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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assport through Virginia, ex-cept, possibly, in a few places; Devereux Jarratt was another Grim-shaw, and that scholarly and Christian man, Dr. Blair, a Scotch-man by birth, was for half a century the commissary. Doubtlessthere were other and similar mitigations of the moral influencewhich the execrable State-church system was calculated to pro-duce. A high authority says: If we turn from the clergy tothe laity, facts present themselves such as might naturally besupposed to exist under the ministrations of such a clergy. In-deed, it scarce admits of a doubt that between the two classesthere was a mutual action and reaction for evil; each probablycontributed to make the other worse. * We have seen how the Methodists and Moravians were warnedoff before they came in sight, and with what difficulty the Pres-byterians got a footing in the colony. The Baptists bore thebrunt of persecution. They were beaten and imprisoned, says * Hawkss Narrative of the Protestant Episcopal Church. (•2-10)
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Parsons—Tobacco—Patrick Henri/. 251 Dr. Hawks, the historian of his Church, and cruelty taxed itsingenuity to devise new methods of punishment and annoyance.But they stood it nobly. John Bunyan and Bedford jail were be-fore them, not to speak of a higher inspiration. They marchedto prison, singing as they went Broad is the road that leads todeath, and preached to crowds through the prison-bars. About 1763, the covetousness and arrogance of the exclusiveclaimants of apostolic succession in Virginia Colony receiveda final blow from a quarter which themselves had invoked. A par-sons regular salary, besides house and glebe, was sixteen thousandpounds of tobacco. The crop of 1755 being short, the legislaturepassed an act to enable the inhabitants of the colony to dis-charge tobacco debts in money, at the rate of sixteen shillingsand eight pence per hundred weight—at the option of the debtor.Planters who had tobacco to sell got fifty or sixty shillings perhundred weight, and paid the

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