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By Edwin Schell

200 Years Ago

Bishop Asbury?s Journal, Sept. 8, 1805
? Bishop Asbury preached at White Brown?s barn in Ohio. He had been an early Eastern Shore Methodist.

100 Years Ago

Christian Advocate, Sept. 21, 1905
? First Church Baltimore held Sunday evening services in the neighborhood.
? Fork Church was repaired and reopened.
? The Baltimore Methodist Book Store, burned out by the Baltimore Fire, relocated again from Eutaw Street Church to 220 N. Howard Street.
? Woodrow Union Church on the Paw Paw Circuit was dedicated. 

25 Years Ago

Circuit Rider, Sept. 19, 1980
? The Rev. Marjorie Matthew's, the first woman bishop, took office in Wisconsin.
? Caroleann Myers, conference missionary secretary, sought support from Baltimore Conference churches for 10 world missionaries.
? Ruth Daugherty of Easter Pennsylvania Conference took office as the national president of United Methodist Women.

10 Years Ago

Connection, Sept. 13, 1995
? Garrison UMC church members paraded to 'Take Back Our Streets' from drugs.
? The 250th anniversary of Bishop Asbury?s birth was celebrated by the Historical Society at his grave in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

The Rev. Edwin Schell is the executive director of the United Methodist Historical Society.