Excerpt from The Heart of Asbury's Journal: Being the Substance of the Printed Journals of the Reverend Francis Asbury, Forty-Five Years an Itinerant Preacher in America and Thirty-Two Years a General Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church The historic feature of Asbury's Journal gives to it a value that cannot be overestimated both in regard to the personal character of this wonderful man, and the marvelous growth of Methodism under his labors and supervision. In perusing this work the reader will accompany Mr. Asbury from place to place, from State to State, from Conference to Conference - preaching, praying, exhorting, visiting the societies and classes, comforting the sick, burying the dead, holding Conferences, ordaining ministers, founding schools, raising funds, and inspiring the preachers in their self-sacrificing work by word and example. In accomplishing his difficult and diversified work this great evangelist will be seen constantly traveling, crossing rivers, fording streams, climbing mountains sleeping on the ground or cabin floor, eating by the wayside, or fasting for want of food. It will be seen that although performing Herculean labors, Asbury had to contend with imperfect health, and had frequent attacks of sickness - often resorting to severe remedies that he might the sooner resume his work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.