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Michigan By Rev. S. N. Griffith
He was a very conscientious, good man ; he died about the year 1846, full of faith and of the Holy Ghost. He made his will while on his death-bed and selected the text for his funeral sermon: Psalms xxxiv: 19—Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord de-livereth him out of them all. He selected the Rev. J. T. Robe to preach his funeral sermon; he died full of the hope of immortality and eternal life. Oh, may my death be the death of the righteous, and my last end be like-his. Rev. Mr. Robe this year formed a class at Paw Paw ; Mr. Newcomb was appointed leader. Mr. Robe's appointments for this year were Kalamazoo, Indianfields, Climax and Toland's Prairie, Comstock, Gull Prairie, Silver Creek, Gun Plains, Otsego, Allegan, Paw Paw, Grand Prairie and Genesee Prairie, so arranged that he could reach them all
once in two weeks. At Kalamazoo he preached at the house of Uncle George Patterson until late in the fall of 1834, when the school-house was so far finished that it could be occupied for preaching. The house stood on South street, where the Jewish synagogue now stands.
EARLY HISTORY OF METHODISM
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