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Excerpt from The Dealings of God, Man, and the Devil, as Exemplified in the Life, Experience and Travels of Lorenzo Dow, in a Period of Over Half a Century: Together With His Polemic and Miscellaneous Writings, Complete; To Which Is Added the Vicissitudes of Life The account given by Lorenzo of his conversion is characteristic of himself. 1 - He was as yet a youth. Already had he been warned by more than one sin I gular dream, which he relates with characteristic minuteness. Among other things which tended to awaken him, was an assurance that be imagined himself to have received from the Prophet Nathan in a dream - though in this' case, his dream did not come true - that he should live only to the age of twenty-two. About this time there was much talk about the people called Methodists, who were lately come into the western parts of New England. Some said they were the deceivers that were to come in the last time. Some, on the other hand, said they were a very good sort of people. A preacher of this zealous sect come into the neighborhood. Lorenzo went to the door and looked in to see a Methodist, but to my surprise, says he, he appeared like other men After hearing two sermons, Lorenzo became the subject of deep and pungent conviction. I durst not stir for some time, says he, for fear I should tum ble into hell. My sins and the damnable nature of them, were in a moment exhibited to my view. 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.
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Lorenzo Dow was born on October 16, 1777 in Coventry, Connecticut, United States. He was the fifth of the six children of Humphrey Dean and Tabitha (Parker) Dow. His parents, natives of Coventry, brought up their children frugally, educating them, as Lorenzo said, “both in religion and common learning”.
In 1794 Dow began preaching, making his evangelistic excursions on horseback, and in 1796 he was accepted into a tentative connection with the Methodist ministry—only to be suspended after three months. Then he preached again independently, desperately poor and generally ill, but frequently within one week traveling as much as 150 miles and preaching as often as twenty times.
In 1798, readmitted to his former status with the Methodists, he soon afterward, though opposed by his ecclesiastical superiors, set out to carry his gospel into Ireland. After about eighteen turbulent months there, he returned to New York in May 1801, and almost immediately left by sea for Georgia. He preached there for a few months, returned to New York, and in November 1802 again turned southward, this time overland, proclaiming everywhere his threats of hell, and hopes of paradise, bringing in many converts. He visited the Indians, delivered the first Protestant sermon ever listened to in Alabama, talked in Charleston freely enough to be, at a later time, convicted for libel, and turning northward, preached through the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia.
In 1818 he again went to England, but soon after his return in 1820, Peggy died. Three months later he was married to Lucy Dolbeare of Montville, Connecticut. From then on, he wrote more and preached less, issuing, after his habit instituted in 1804, a chaotic torrent of egoistic pamphlets, and constantly revising his journals.
Living on his farm in Connecticut, he accumulated affidavits about his own good character, compounded medicines recommended for biliousness, quarreled acrimoniously, litigated, to his sorrow, with his neighbors about a mill race, and stormed incessantly against Whigs, anti-Masons, Catholics, and finally against Methodists, who, he said, were badly tainted with popery. Death came to him suddenly in Georgetown, Maryland.
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Dow decided to take a wife, and accordingly on September 3, 1804, in Westernville, New York, he was married. The bride, Peggy Holcomb, born in 1780 in Granville, Massachusetts, entered into the union upon the express understanding that she would never hinder him in his roamings. In November 1805 they went to England, where Peggy bore him a daughter, Letitia, who soon died. In 1818 he again went to England, but soon after his return in 1820, Peggy died. Three months later he married Lucy Dolbeare of Montville, Connecticut.
