fta1 In one instance I found a preacher returned located and expelled in the same year! In another, located in one year and expelled the next.

ftb1 Dr. Beecher had represented the state of Maryland as being in a most deplorable condition. After having said that Virginia, with a population of 974,622, needed 900 ministers in addition to the 60 it already had to make up the one for every one of the inhabitants, he says, “Of the state of Maryland we cannot speak particularly. But from general information on the subject, we have no reason to believe the supply any better than that of Virginia;” that is, as 60 to 900. He must therefore have considered either that the Methodists were not worthy to be included among Christian ministers and members of the church, or otherwise greatly depreciated the religious character of the state of Maryland. ftb2 Dr. Beecher, who wrote the address, in a conversation with the writer of this History, remarked that he had been misunderstood, and therefore had suffered much abuse from the public press, on account of the sentiments set forth in the address. It was asked, “Why, then, do you not explain yourself, and set the public right?” The reply was, “I cannot do it without making matters worse.” From this it was inferred that he found himself in a dilemma, from which he could not extricate himself without offending one party or the other. I think it, however, but justice to say, that he disavowed any intention of producing any other political influence than what should arise from a religious purification of the moral atmosphere, so that men should come to the polls under the restraints of Christian principles and that by an educated ministry he did not mean a collegiate, but only a theological education.

ftc1 He afterward left the Allenites and Connected himself with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and is now an elder among them.

ftd1 The spirit of this requirement is complied with by the report of a superintendent of any missionary district, in which he embraces a general account of the several missions under his care.

fte1 May we not perceive in this system of aboriginal theology a semblance of the Scriptural account of a good and evil spirit, of holy and unholy angels? And have they not received it by tradition, obscured from one generation to another, until it has degenerated into these absurd notions of supreme and subordinate deities, who preside over their destinies?

fte2 Here is another relic of the highpriesthood among the Jews, and of the fire of the sacred altar. Has this been handed down by tradition from their fathers?

fte3 There is an error in the total number in the printed Minutes of 385, the whole number there stated being 260,275.

fte4 McIntosh accompanied General Jackson in his campaign against the Seminole Indians. In a more private interview with Kennard, another Indian warrior, the latter related the manner in which the army was arranged at the time the descent was made. While he adverted to his command in one wing of the army, his eye sparkled with conscious pride at the recollection of the honor which had been conferred upon him. “In the middle,” said he, was General Jackson on the right, McIntosh; on the left, me.”

This man was sick at the time the talk was had with McIntosh, which, however, was held near the bed on which he reposed. As Mr. Capers offered a dime to one of his children, he asked, “Is that little girl big enough to go to school’?” On being informed she was, he eagerly replied, “I have seven of them; and when you come back and begin your school I will send four.” What a pity that a love of heathenism should have defeated the benevolent project of teaching these young immortals letters and the Christian religion! And much more that white men, born and educated in a Christian land, should have contributed to its defeat!

fte5 A small settlement of white people on the Indian lands here borders on a settlement of the Delaware Indians.

fte6 The Rev. Daniel Dorchester, who was the presiding elder of the district, in giving an account of this work, relates the following affecting and mournful incident: — A young man, about eighteen years of age, who attended the meeting, was earnestly solicited by some of his young associates, who had recently embraced the Savior, to seek the salvation of God. He constantly resisted their importunities, though they were seconded by preachers and other friends, by saying, “I will wait till I get home.” On his way home he suddenly sprung from the wagon, and exclaimed, “Mother, I am dying! I am dying! I shall not live an hour! O that I had sought religion at the camp meeting!” Though a physician was procured, it was in vain. His flesh soon assumed a purple hue, and the next day, at about eight o’clock, P. M., he breathed his last.

fte7 The exact number of conversions was not reported.

fte8 There is an error in the printed Minutes for this year, there being less in the increase than what appears in the Minutes.

fte9 When the writer of this history visited Detroit, in 1804, he obtained an old building called the “Council House” to preach in. On his second visit, while preaching in the evening there arose a tremendous storm, accompanied with the most vivid lightning and awful peals of thunder.

He continued his sermon, however, reminding his hearers that this war in the elements was but a faint resemblance of that day when “the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent beat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” He was afterward informed that some of “the baser sort” of the young men; after the candles were lighted, deposited some powder in them at such a distance from the haze that they supposed it would take fire and explode during the sermon. They were disappointed. The exercises closed without any explosion, because the candles had not burned down to the powder. These wags, after all was over, informed their associates of what they had done, and remarked, that while the peals of thunder were bursting over the house, they were fearful that the Almighty was about to hurl a bolt at their heads, as a punishment for their wickedness, and hence they sat trembling for their fate during the greater part of the sermon.

fte10 He was educated for a physician.