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<p> a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Kendall, Westmoreland, England, Jan. 4, 1812. He gave himself to | Birkett Edward <ref name="term_25656" /> | ||
==References == | <p> a [[Methodist]] Episcopal minister, was born at Kendall, Westmoreland, England, Jan. 4, 1812. He gave himself to Christ at the age of fourteen; was soon licensed to exhort, and four years later to preach; emigrated to [[America]] in 1835, and immediately began his ministerial labors in connection with the Pittsburgh Conference. On the formation of the Erie [[Conference]] in 1836, he became a member of it, and two years later was transferred to the Pittsburgh Conference, wherein he labored faithfully, with three years' exception as superannuate, until 1872, when he took for a third and last time a superannuate relation, which he sustained until his death at Mount Union, O., Aug. 13, 1878. Mr. Birkett was not strong physically, but attained a superior mental power. He was sound in faith, and steady in purpose. His sermons were full of thought, chaste and elegant. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1878, p. 47. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_25656"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/birkett+edward Birkett Edward from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_25656"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/birkett+edward Birkett Edward from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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Birkett Edward [1]
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Kendall, Westmoreland, England, Jan. 4, 1812. He gave himself to Christ at the age of fourteen; was soon licensed to exhort, and four years later to preach; emigrated to America in 1835, and immediately began his ministerial labors in connection with the Pittsburgh Conference. On the formation of the Erie Conference in 1836, he became a member of it, and two years later was transferred to the Pittsburgh Conference, wherein he labored faithfully, with three years' exception as superannuate, until 1872, when he took for a third and last time a superannuate relation, which he sustained until his death at Mount Union, O., Aug. 13, 1878. Mr. Birkett was not strong physically, but attained a superior mental power. He was sound in faith, and steady in purpose. His sermons were full of thought, chaste and elegant. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1878, p. 47.
