Adam Crooks (Wesleyan Methodist)

Rev. Adam Crooks (May 3, 1824 – December 15, 1874) was a Wesleyan Methodist minister who promoted total abstinence from alcohol and the abolition of slavery.

"If Orange Scott can be called the founder of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection, Adam Crooks would have to be named its perpetrator." [cite book
last=Haines
first=Lee M.
coauthors=Thomas, Paul W.
year=1990
edition=4th edition
title=An Outline History of the Wesleyan Church
publisher=Wesley Press
location=Indianapolis, Indiana
isbn=0898270766
pages=p. 74]

"Duty Respecting the Temperance Movement"

Rev. Crooks wrote, "Not enough that we do our neighbor no harm. Not enough that we do him all the good we can personally. We may not innocently stand by and permit the infliction of injuries by others.These principles are fundamental to the social compact; and applied to the subject of Temperance, they
(1.) Forbid all agency, direct or indirect, in the manufacture, sale, purchase, or use of intoxicating liquors, as a beverage.
(2.) Require that we should do our utmost to influence all others to practice habits of strictest temperance.
(3.) That, by forces, both moral and legal, we prevent all others from the worse than murderous traffic in liquors that can intoxicate." [cite book
last=Crooks
first=Elizabeth W.
year=1875
title=Life of Rev. A. Crooks
chapter=Duty Respecting the Temperance Movement
publisher=Wesleyan Methodist Publishing House
location=Syracuse, New York
url=http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/crooks/crooks.html#p177
pages=pp. 177-178]

Freedom's Hill Church

"In October of 1847, a Wesleyan Methodist Minister, who loved God and hated slavery accepted a call to pastor a new congregation of Southern Christians who had taken the same courageous stand in the turbulent years before the Civil War. Unwilling to wait for better weather in the spring, they broke ground during the winter months of 1847-48." [cite web
title=Freedom's Hill Church
publisher=Central Heritage Society
url=http://centralheritage.org/freedom.htm] "He arrived in North Carolina in October of 1847 and began an evangelistic and church organizing ministry ... A log church was built that first winter nearby in Alamance County, called 'Freedom's Hill' (although opponents nicknamed it 'Free Nigger Hill')."cite web
last=Haines
first=Lee M.
title=People of Our Heritage: Micajah McPherson A Layman With Convictions
publisher=Wesleyan Church
url=http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=73010882282341&w=8273d24] "Freedom's Hill Church" was the first Wesleyan Methodist church built in the South. It has been renovated, and relocated to the Southern Wesleyan University campus. [cite web
title=2004 General Conference: Dr. Bob Black Gives Monday Evening Rally Message on "Exalting Christ-Empowering the Church for Boldness"
url=http://www.swu.edu/news/2004/black_gen_conference.php]

"By the end of Crook's first year, he had established eight congregations in North Carolina and Virginia, with a total of 140 members."

External links

* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/crooks/crooks.html Life of Rev. A. Crooks (HTML)]
* [http://www.openlibrary.org/details/lifeofreverendac00croouoft Life of Rev. A. Crooks (DjVu, PDF, TXT, FlipBook)]

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