| John Forster, the son of Thomas
Forster, one of the original settlers of Jersey Shore and a local preacher,
built a school house in the fall of 1810, in which in 1813 he organized
the first Sunday School on the Circuit and in the county. Bishop McKendree
visited the work in August, 1813, and ordained Forster a Deacon.
From 1815 to 1821 itinerant preachers held services where Mrs. Schelie's hotel stood on Broad Street, which is now the Broad Street Hotel. In 1821, the Society purchased a wagonmaker's shop on Smith Street, which had been built by David Craft and made it into a "Meeting House". Humble though this first Methodist Meeting House was, here the power of the Lord came down and many souls were saved and found peace. |
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