1864 JOHN DEMPSTER. Methodist on Ministry in the West, Role of Supernatural in Gospel, etc., Evangelist Pieces in Prose and Poetry

Pieces in Prose and Poetry

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He was involved with one of the most important legal cases of the era

The volume contains narratives of the voyages and relations of experiences by travelers from the time of the Portuguese navigators to the middle of the eighteenth century

all topped off with an issue of the pseudo-scientific Phrenological Journal

1864 JOHN DEMPSTER. Methodist on Ministry in the West, Role of Supernatural in Gospel, etc., Evangelist Pieces in Prose and PoetryAn interesting set of lectures and addresses by influential Westward Expansion Methodist circuit rider and educator, John Dempster [1794 1863]. Born in Florida, His father, Rev. James Dempster, was bred a Presbyterian, and educated at the University of Edinburgh, but became an associate of John Wesley, and was sent by him to the United States as a missionary. He died while John was a child, and the boy, became a peddler of tin ware, but after his