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iUH » J ----fervently encouraged and w ri' steadfastly professed. viMIAMI CIRCUIT FORMED , ti ' Also in the same year of u ' 1797, in November to be more -K; specific, Ezekiel Dimmitt made fta his appearance in the Clermont MCounty aresf? He left Virginia ftat the suggestion of McCor- o\ mick to help prepare the st wilderness for the coming of ! the Lord. It was felt that this a | pious young man could strong- n ‘ then the religious trend in this tl . section. Dimmitt began his h journey to Ohio, using it as I ' a wedding trip, for he stopped F t in Kentucky and married. He w “I had a cabin built on a tract of tl ,, bottom land below Batavia and ) '. to this cabin Dimmitt and his « bride along with two of her o® brothers made their way. Thus tanother dream of McCormick's f‘ had been fulfilled. He now had 31® the talents of both Gatch and f, Dimmitt in his midst. t: Two years later in 1799 the cn, Miami Circuit was constituted fand Ezekiel Dimmitt’s house, 1 p® which was only 16 feet square, 1 i became a preaching place. This . was six years before the ?® Methodists had a preaching place in Cincinnati.Reverend Henry Smith was also one of the earliest preach- lt;,, ers in Clermont and in 1799 lt;, was sent to the Miami Circuit 1! to take the place of Reverend i,u* I^wis Hunt who was reported !’ down with sickness and suf- iei.' fering from overexposure. But lt;0(] when he arrived, he found then? preacher Hunt recovered suf- ]ficiently to go on with his l,S1’ work. Reverend Smith’s in-■v structions were to go up the °.n Scioto and form another circuit there.ied On Sept. 18, 1799, he leftHunt’s cabin and returned to i McCormick's Settlement, lt;where on the following Sun- i me day he heard for the first time, ] ay' the famous Reverend Philip i m.e Gatch preach. 1'• FIRST MEETING HOUSES‘:u Before any meeting houseswere built, and even after a lv,' few had been established, the 1 meetings were generally held 1 ”‘s at the cabins of some devoted 1 ? brothers. When it was not con* y* venient to hold them in the !homes, barns or sheds were y' used. In the summer seasons, 1 wn. the meetings were always held 0 in the woods: hence arose in : early days, the grand and his-his torical old-fashioned ‘‘camp- 1 Lin- meetings”, which were attend* lar ed by hundreds as they became in more numerous. Old and young
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The Clermont Courier
Batavia, Ohio, US
Tue, Aug 07, 1962
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