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Birkett Edward

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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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.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Birkett Edward'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​b/birkett-edward.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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