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The Methodist Church of today acknowledges no apostles, yet William Taylor has shown himself to be as truly an apostle, as was St. Paul or John Wesley. Among Independents, Dwight L. Moody has shown himself to be an evangelist, though the Independent churches know no ministers but pastors. So John Wesley Redfield stood forth in the Methodist ...
CHAPTER 1. John Wesley Redfield was born in Clarendon, New Hampshire, January 23, 1810. On the night of his birth an esteemed Christian woman dreamed that she was visited by an angel who told her to go to the home of the Redfields and she would find there a new born son; and that she must announce to the mother that he must be named John Wesley ...
John W. Redfield was a remarkable revivalist among the Methodists and Free Methodists. He died not many years ago. From his memoir, prepared by J. G. Terrill, we take the following:“The Sabbath came, and I went to church. A goodly number had come, probably from curiosity, to see the new preacher. I had resolved to deliver my own soul regardless of persons or conditions, by declaring the ...
In Cleveland, Mr. Redfield engaged in his chosen profession -- portrait painting. He gave in his letter to the church, and was enrolled as a local preacher. Now and then, he preached as called upon by the pastor, and during the following winter assisted in a protracted meeting. His labors were owned of God in the conversion of souls.
Change of Pastors - Mr. Redfield Still Engaged in Revival Work - Charged with Heresy by the New Pastor - Vindicates Himself - License to Preach Renewed - Opposition to the Holiness Teaching of Mr. Redfield and Others Continued - Bishop Hamline - A Defender and Promoter of the Holiness Work - Becomes Mr. Redfield's Confidential Adviser, etc.
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The Autobiography of Methodist Revivalist and Abolitionist John Wesley Redfield (1810-1863) Howard A. Snyder John Wesley Redfield (1810-1863), controversial "lay" evangelist in the Methodist Episcopal and later Free Methodist churches, was the cofounder of the Free Methodist Church and in the 1840s and 50s had a broad ministry in the M.E. Church and beyond.
But for some reason he had failed to make much of an impression upon either the church or the world at St. Charles, and in his extremity he sent for Mr. Redfield. Mr. Redfield had preached but a short time before the various elements in the society were thoroughly aroused.
