WATERCOLOUR #2

ASBURY'S FIRST AMERICAN SERMON

The next day Asbury preached in St. George's Church , Philadelphia , which the Methodists had bought, unfinished, four walls and a roof, for about $1000 in 1769.
Chapels or "preaching houses" were often no more than log cabins, without window glass.
During a riot in 1788, "the ladies leaped out at the windows of the church," and stones were thrown through the openings at Asbury.
The first recorded "glass window behind the pulpit" was in 1794. 

Asbury designed many church buildings.
He discouraged "holy strife for the highest steeple," and considered "such foolish additions" a waste of Methodist money.
Brickwork, two-storied in 1802, gradually replaced wood frame construction. 

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