Thomas, Samuel (3)
Thomas, Samuel (1)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, became a member of the society, in the early period of Methodism, in the State of New Jersey. He was an acceptable local preacher for a number of years, entered the itinerancy in 1796, and filled the following stations: In 1796-97, Flanders Circuit; 1798, Elizabethtown Circuit; 1799, Freehold; 1800-1, Newburg; 1802, Bethel; 1803, Elizabethtown; 1804-5, Freehold; 1806, supernumerary in Brooklyn; 1807, in New York; 1808, superannuated, in which relation he continued until he died, in 1812. Mr. Thomas was a man of much prayer and diligence in searching the Scriptures, strongly attached to the doctrines and discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and ever considered as a strict disciplinarian. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1, 208; Stevens, Hist. of M.E. Church, 4:281.
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Thomas, Samuel (2)
an Independent minister, was born in Jorat, Switzerland, in 1801. By his own industry he obtained an education at Lausanne Academy, and was ordained at Grancy in 1825. After four years of usefulness at the latter place, Mr. Thomas was elected president of the Training Institute at Lausanne, a post for which he was eminently fitted, both by his earnest piety and varied gifts and attainments. In 1836 he was called to the Church of the Oratory at Yverdun, where he spent nineteen years of useful labor, and in 1855 settled at Neufchatel. He died Jan. 12,1867. Mr. Thomas was a man of inflexible principles, yet of most gentle and tender disposition. He took a conspicuous part in the revival movement in Switzerland, and showed himself a wise and experienced counsellor. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1868, p. 297.
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Thomas, Samuel (3)
an English Congregational minister, was born at Pontreych, Nov. 20, 1815. He graduated at Brecon College in 1843, and was ordained to the pastorate of Ebenezer Chapel, Newport. Under his personal superintendence a new chapel was erected, and the Church membership greatly increased. In 1860, he removed to Bethlehem, and labored with the Church there until his death, April 5,1869. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1870, p. 322.