a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born near Elizabeth, N.J., June 19, 1819, of Presbyterian parentage. He received an early, careful religious training; was left an orphan at the age of thirteen; experienced religion at eighteen; graduated at Princeton College in 1843; was licensed to preach the next spring, and employed by the presiding elder on Parsippany Circuit; and in 1845 entered the New Jersey Conference. His fields of labor were: in 1845, six months on Asbury Circuit, and six at Quarantine and Port Richmond; 1846, Hope; 1847, Belvidere; 1848 to May 1849, Orange; from June 1849, to 1857, principal of Pennington Seminary; 1858 and 1859, Trinity Church, Jersey City; 1860 and 1861, Haverstraw; 1862 and 1863, Central Church, Newark; 1864 to 1866, Morristown; 1867, Hackettstown; 1868 to 1871, Newark District; 1872 to 1875, Elizabeth District; 1876 and 1877, Cross Street Church, Paterson; and in 1878, Port Jervis, N.Y., where he closed his life and labors, February 16, 1880. Dr. Crane was a clear, thorough, and able writer;, a gentle and painstaking instructor, a powerful temperance advocate, an exemplary Christian gentleman, and a successful minister. His authorship embraces, Essay on Dancing (1848): The Right Way; or, Practical Lectures on the Decalogue (1853): Popular Amusements (1869): Arts of Intoxication (1870): Holiness the Birthright of all God’s Children (1874): Methodism and its Methods (1875); besides being a frequent contributor to the Methodist Quarterly Review, The Christian Advocate, and periodicals. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1880, page 37; Simpson, Cyclopedia of Methodism, s.v.<\/p>\n
Crane, Jonathan Townley, D.D a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born near Elizabeth, N.J., June 19, 1819, of Presbyterian parentage. He received an early, careful religious training; was left an orphan at the age of thirteen; experienced religion at eighteen; graduated at Princeton College in 1843; was licensed to preach the next spring, and employed by … Continue reading “Crane, Jonathan Townley, D.D”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}