WATERCOLOUR #8

CONGREGATION BECOMES A FIRE BRIGADE

The Methodists were not only believers in Providence ; they were its agents. 
While Asbury was conducting a service in 1782, the house next to the chapel caught fire. 
The service at once became a rescue operation through which the inhabitants and the furniture were saved. 
Note the chimney being pulled down - built separate from the wooden house in the hope that if it caught fire the house would not. 
Fire was a constant hazard in lumber country. 
It makes a dramatic illustration here - as it did sometimes in Asbury's sermons. 

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