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LORENZO DOW (1777-1834)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOW (1777-1834)  , See also:American preacher, noted for his eccentricities of See also:dress and manner, was See also:born at See also:Coventry, See also:Connecticut, on the 16th of See also:October 1777 . 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 See also:circuit . 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 . Everywhere, in See also:America and See also:Great See also:Britain, he attracted great crowds to hear and see him, and he was often persecuted as well as admired . 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 . See also: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 . His later efforts were directed chiefly against the See also:Jesuits; indeed he was in See also:general a vigorous opponent of See also:Roman Catholicism . He died in See also:Georgetown, See also:District of See also:Columbia, on the 2nd of See also:February 1834 . Among his publications are: Polemical See also:Works (1814); The Stranger in See also:Charleston, or the Trial and See also:Confession of Lorenzo Dow (1822); A,See also:Short See also:Account of a See also:Long Travel; with Beauties of See also:Wesley (1823); and the See also:History of a Cosmopolite; or the Four Volumes of the Rev . Lorenzo Dow's See also: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 See also:Devil as exemplified in the See also:Life, Experience and Travels of Lorenzo Dow .

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