EDWIN SCHELL | By Edwin Schell As the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference prepares to meet this May in Baltimore for the first time since 1986, this history column will include highlights of Methodism since it began in this historic area. 1816 - The Asbury Sunday School Society in Baltimore began its first school.
1819 - Caroline Street Church was erected to house 600 members who were won in a Fells Point revival. l The Methodist Missionary Society was begun and Baltimore soon had an auxiliary.
1820 - After Joshua Soule refused a bishopric, General Conference voted to postpone the election of presiding elders.
1824 - Joseph Cartwright, hired as pastor of Ebenezer's black congregation on Capitol Hill, was the first African American paid for ministry.
1825 - Western Pennsylvania was cut from the Baltimore Conference and became the Pittsburgh Conference.
1827 - A dozen local preachers were expelled from Baltimore City Station for Reform agitation.
1828 - Reformers organized 'Associated Methodists' at St. John's in Baltimore, which was renamed the Methodist Protestant Church in 1830.
1832 - Newly elected Bishop John Emory made his home in Reisterstown.
1833 - A mission was begun to Liberia by Melville Cox, former editor of 'Itinerant,' a private Baltimore Methodist paper. Cox's dying plea was, 'Let not Africa be given up.'
1835 - Bishop John Emory died in an accident on Reisterstown Road. Many schools and churches memorialized his name.
The Rev. Edwin Schell is the executive director of the United Methodist Historical Society. |
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