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Famous Methodist minister attracts large crowds...
Famous Methodist minister attracts large crowds...
Item # 541668
January 28, 1840
THE MADISONIAN, Washington D.C., Virginia, January 28, 1840
* John Newland Maffitt... Methodist preacher...
* From the Nation's Capital...
Page 3 has a report: "Religious Excitement in Cincinnati" which says: "Since...early...December, the Rev. J. N. Maffit has been preaching in the Wesleyan Chapel of this city. He delivers four or five sermons...each week, and the chapel, one of the largest buildings of the kind in the west, is uniformly filled...by the crowds who flock to hear him....about 700 persons have been added to the Methodist Church of this city, since...Mr. Maffit's arrival...".
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4 pages in nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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