Troy Conference Miscellany

REV, WRIGHT HAZEN.-BY REV, NOAH LEVINGS, D, D.

Birth and death – Amiability — Apprentice Becomes pious — Re.

moves to Troy - Marriage — Preaches - Enters upon the itiner-

ant work - Temporal embarrassments - Retires to extricate him.

self — Noble example — Returns to the itinerancy – Revival at

Hoosic - Transferred to Troy Conference — Wife dies — Water-

ford — West Troy - Second Marriage — Bronchial disease -Con-

sumption — Tries sea air — Kindness of Christian friends — "Rock-

ing in the cradle of death" - End - Character, Page 133

REV, PHILETUS GREEN,

Birth and death — Pious mother — Skeptical - Coach painter

Awakened and converted— Great change — Rules of life — Wil-
braham Academy

Joins N. E. Conference Transferred to
Troy Conference Marriage — Usefulness — Indications of con-
sumption - Bleeding at the lungs - Death - Piety - Extracts
from his journal — Letter to a skeptic - Speaking " too loud”-
Happy end.

Page 140

REV, AMOS R. RIPLEY.

Want of knowledge of bim — Conflicts relative to the ministerial

calling - Joins Troy Conference — Appointments — Early death

- Character, fc.

Page 146

REV. GILBERT Y. PALMER,

Mysteries of Providence – Faith — Heaven — Birth and death —

Parentage — Opposition to his becoming a Methodist - Call to

preach — Poultney Academy - Enters the ministry – Fort Ann

- Orwell – Hiram Blanchard - Ticonderoga – Ordained elder-

His character — S. D. Brown's account of his last days.

Page 148

REV. WM. D. STEAD.-BY REV. C. R, MORRIS.

Parentage — Birth — Conversion — Enters the ministry - Appoint.

ments - Sickness and success on Chester Circuit - Death - Suf-

ferings and patience — Character.

Page 152

REV, DANIEL HOLMES.

Nativity – Early conversion — First marriage — Begins to preach

- Appointments — Second marriage — Transferred to Troy Con-

ference — Appointments – Health fails - Supernumerary – His

character — Deep afflictions -- Death.

Page 154

REV, CHARLES SHERMAN.

Parentage — Father's character - Mother's piety – Her prayer for

her son — Prayer meetings at his father's house — Influence of

early associations Experiences religion — Preaches — Early

Character and preaching - L. A. Sandford - Dr. S. Luckey – S.

Merwin's prediction - Joins N. Y. Conference - "A prophet in

in his own country" — Transferred to Troy Conference — Division

street, Albany - "Who is Charles Sherman?" — North Second

street, Troy - Appointed P., Elder — Revivals on the district –

Letter to Mr. Ward - Letter to his brother Samuel — Last visit

to his father - Interesting incident - Delegate to General Con-

ference - Affection of the heart - Letter to the writer — Jones.

ville — North Second street, Troy Troubles Sickness and

death - Personal appearance — Distinguishing trait of character

— Symmetry of character – Liberality - Letter Cheerfulness

– Preaching Pastoral habits - A man of prayer - Public

prayers Gratitude - Character as P. Elder - Letter to the

Writer - Another - Skill as a manager - Settling difficulties

Dispersing a mob - Meeting an emergency at a camp-meeting

- Social qualities — In conference - Attachment to the church

- His end.

Page 157

REV. JAMES COVEL, A, M.

Ancestry — Nativity – Father's prayer — Dull scholar

"I'll try.”

- Removed to Poughkeepsie - Conversion - Licensed to preach

- Enters traveling connection — The“ boy team " - Studious

Anecdote Early Preaching Marriage Appointments

Death Character as a scholar Literary labors Absent.

minded — Modesty — Preaching - Personal appearance — Integ.

rity — Sickness – Dr. Skilton's remarks — Dying scenes.

Page 185.

Dess

REV. THOMAS KIRBY, BY REV. B. M. HALL,

Birth - Influence of parental piety Camp-meeting – Prayer

Answered — His conversion - Early religious activity and useful-

Appointed class-leader — Wilbraham Academy Preaches

under the presiding elder at Dalton — Anecdote — "Preach will

you?" - New Lebanon Stowe Berkshire - Success - Hines.

burgh Anecdote Reception of Preachers by the people.

Whitehall Greatly esteemed - Brandon - Granville Corners

Last sermons Sickness and death - B. O. Meeker's account of

t days - Funeral sermons - Personal appearance — Cheer-

fulness — His preaching — Preaching to one bearer. Page 194

REV. ALFRED SAXE.

Introduction - Memory of the dead — Birth - Incident - Desire for

knowledge — Love of history - Conversion — Call to the minis.
try

Desire for an education Plattsburgh Burlington -
Keesville –Receives license to exhort — To preach— Early efforts

Enters the Wesleyan University - Scholarship — J. G. Saxe-

Rev. L. L. Knox - Over-exertion - Letter — Marriage — Subse-

quent life at Middletown — Joins the Troy Conference – Ferry

street-Success Illness - Conference of 1844 – Secretary –

Return to Ferry street — Testimonials — North White Creek

Superannuates — Returns to Sheldon — Last Letter — Death

Character - Intellectual power - Cultivation - Amiable spirit

Friends — Love to his parents — Poetical epistles to his mother -

Sister's album - Cheerfulness - Knox Letter - Character as a

Christian — View of the Ministry – Letter - Preaching - Affa-

bility — Pastoral habits — Conclusion,

Page 202.

" and

Early Conversion — Begins to preach — Appointments — Retires -

Import of

Supernumerary Superannuated

"— Toils —

Economy - Integrity — Anecdote " Breaking the preacher

down" — Preaching at a camp meeting — His death.

Page 225.

REV. WILLIAM ANSON.

Belonged to a former generation Anecdote of his father - Learned

the carpenter's trade — Yellow fever in New York – Conversion -

Joined the New York Conference — Grand Isle Circuit -"A

savage race Crossing the Bar - No rum” – His success -

Other appointments - Ashgrove District — Rbinebeck District -

Appointments - Supernumerary - Death — Hardships — Useful-

ness — Old-fashioned — Cured the “holy grunt” — Character -

Family.

Page 229.

REV. ELIAS VANDERLIP.

'An old disciple"-Venerable appearance-Division-street Church-

Nativity – Pious mother — Early disadvantages – Conversion —

Jöhn street church — Exhorter - Success — Removes to Albany

- Store burnt-Niskayuna — Revival – Joins New York Con.

ference - Motives of early preachers-Appointments — Inadequate

support — Location - Séttles in Albany - Joins Troy Conference

-- Sufferings and death - Character.

Page 233.

REY, JOHN D. MORIARTY.-BY REV, J. E. BOWEN.
Birth — His father a Roman Catholic Becomes a Methodist preach-

er — Son's Conversion — "A Nothingarian Corn stalks with-
out corn - Removes to Albany - Licensed to preach — Enters on
the itinerant work —Johnstown circuit — Sickness -Narrow es-
cape — M. Bates Removes to Saratoga Springs — Congress

Spring House — Usefulness - Sudden Death Character.

Page 240.

REV. WILLIAM RYDER,

Religion adapted to the afflicted — A son of affliction - Appalling

sufferings — Birth — Childhood —! Do it again, Papa” – Ap-

prentice — Conversion - Studies

Embarrassments –Of age

Chester Academy - Growth in grace — Marriage - Conflicts re-

specting preaching - Itinerancy — Troubles Father Howe

Anecdote of A. A. Farr — J. Poor — Birth day of his sufferings

Leicester circuit — Poultney Extraordinary sufferings -

Mental conflicts - Saratoga Springs - Deprived of all power of