Letter from James Shaw, U.S.A.

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Document ID 300122
Date 01-10-1861
Document Type Newspapers (Extracts)
Archive Wesley Historical Society
Citation Letter from James Shaw, U.S.A.;The Irish Evangelist, October 1, 1861, pp 199-200; CMSIED 300122
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                         LETTER FROM THE UNITED STATES.
                                          Clinton, Illinois, 1861.

GENTLEMEN,- The IRISH EVANGELIST has found its way out
here in Illinois, 5,000 miles west of the place of its
publication.  The names of its editors, agent, and
correspondents, and the names and places to which they
often refer, call to my mind past scenes, and former
friends, and friendships, which are still indellibly
impressed on my memory.
      ...At our last Conference, in October (the Minutes
of which I sent you), I was appointed to this charge
(Clinton Station).  On coming, we found a good Church
and Parsonage; 200 members all living within an hour's
walk from the Church; and an excellent Sabbath School.
Clinton is a country seat or town, having about 1,600
of a population, and is located about the centre of
Illinois, and upon the Illinois central railroad.  The
inhabitants are the representatives of different
nations: English, Irish, Scotch, German, American, &c.,
- so are our congregation.  ...About the middle of January
last we commenced a protracted meeting in our Church,
which has lasted about two months.  ...A young couple,
(the husband from Cork, and his wife, and her brother,
from Bandon, Ireland), have been made happy in Christ.
...Having spent five years in the Irish Conference, and
six in this, I feel prepared to say, that there is no
more important field of ministerial labour in the world
than Ireland; or one that has yielded richer or brighter
fruits....
JAMES SHAW
      Clinton, Illinois.