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Francis Asbury was perhaps American Methodism's best known Bishop.
He was also known as Methodism's first Circuit Rider and "The Itinerant
Bishop". Historians say he rode horseback perhaps farther than any man
in American history... averaging 6,000 miles a years or some 265,000 miles
in 44 years of his ministry. He visited every Methodist preacher
in America every year. His schedule was so tight that he could sleep
only six hours a night, lest he be late to an appointment. He died, March
31, 1816. Therefore he never knew about the Methodists in Kansas; otherwise
he would have tried to visit them as well. |
