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LORENZO DOW (1777-1834) , See also: American preacher, noted for his eccentricities of dress and manner, was See also: born at See also: Coventry, See also: Connecticut, on the 16th of See also: October 1777
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He was much troubled in his youth by religious perplexities, but ultimately joined the Methodists, and in 1998 was appointed a preacher " on trial " in a New See also: York circuit
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In the following See also: year, however, he crossed the See also: Atlantic and preached as a missionary to the Catholics of See also: Ireland, and thereafter was never connected officially with the See also: ministry of the Methodist See also: Church, though he remained essentially a Methodist in
See also: doctrine
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Everywhere, in See also: America and See also: Great Britain, he attracted great crowds to hear and see him, and he was often persecuted as well as admired
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In 18o5 he visited See also: England, introduced the See also: system of See also: camp meetings, and thus led the way to the formation of the See also: Primitive Methodist Society
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Dow's See also: enthusiasm sustained him through the incessant labours of more than See also: thirty years, during which he preached in almost all parts of the See also: United States
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His later efforts were directed chiefly against the See also: Jesuits; indeed he was in general a vigorous opponent of See also: Roman Catholicism
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He died in See also: Georgetown, See also: District of See also: Columbia, on the 2nd of See also: February 1834
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Among his publications are: Polemical See also: Works (1814); The Stranger in See also: Charleston, or the Trial and Confession of Lorenzo Dow (1822); A,See also: Short Account of a Long Travel; with Beauties of See also: Wesley (1823); and the See also: History of a Cosmopolite; or the Four Volumes of the Rev
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Lorenzo Dow's Journal, concentrated in One, containing his Experience and Travels from Childhood to 1814 (1814; many later See also: editions); this See also: volume also contains " All the Polemical Works of Lorenzo." The edition of 1854 was entitled The Dealings of See also: God, See also: Man, and the Devil as exemplified in the See also: Life, Experience and Travels of Lorenzo Dow
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