See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER See also:CARTWRIGHT (1785–1872)
, See also:American Methodist Episcopal preacher, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:September 1785 in See also:Amherst See also:county, See also:Virginia
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His See also:father, a See also:veteran of the See also:War of See also:Independence, took his See also:family to See also:Kentucky in 1790, and lived near See also:Lancaster until 1793, and then until 18o2 in See also:Logan county near the See also:Tennessee See also:line
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See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter received little See also:education, and was a gambler at See also:cards and See also:horse-racing until 18or, when he heard See also:John See also:Page preach
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In See also:June he was received into the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church; in May 18o2 was licensed as a See also:regular exhorter, becoming known as the " Kentucky Boy "; in the autumn of 18o2 was licensed to See also:form the See also:Livingston See also:circuit around the mouth of the See also:Cumberland See also:river; in 18o6 was ordained See also:deacon by See also:Bishop See also:Asbury, and in ,8o8 presiding See also:elder by Bishop McKendree, under whose direction he had studied See also:theology
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He was presiding elder of the See also:Wabash See also:district in 1812, and of See also:Green river district in 1813-1816, and, after four years on circuit in Kentucky and two as presiding elder of the Cumberland district, was transferred in 1823 to the See also:Illinois .See also:conference, in which he was presiding elder of various districts until 1869
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Up to 1856 he preached some 14,600 times, received some Io,000 persons into the church, and baptized some 12,000 persons
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He died near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois, on the 25th of September 1872
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He was a typical back-See also:woods preacher, an able, vigorous See also:speaker, and a racy writer
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See the Autobiography of Peter See also:Cartwright, the Backwoods Preacher, edited by W
.
P
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See also:Strickland (New See also:York, 1856)
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