MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 201
He was an itinerant preacher for the period of twelve or thirteen years, during which time his labors were owned and blessed of God. Bro. Rhodes, by his christian deportment, made and retained the love of them with whom he became acquainted. After the rise of the annual conference of New Jersey, in 1874, he was transferred from the New York Conference to the New Jersey Conference and stationed at Bridgeton, N. J., where he labored until stricken down by disease, when he was removed to his home in Norristown, Pa., where, in the bosom of his friends, he breathed his last, in the full triumph of Christian experience. As a member of this conference we mourn this sad berevement, and pray that our heavenly father will strengthen and console his sorrowful family.
Resolved, That these reports be spread upon the pages of the Conference Record.
Your committee who were appointed on memorials beg leave to report the following:
It has pleased Almighty God, in his all wise providence, to remove from the work of the ministry, by death, the Rev. Joshua Woodlin, who was born in the town of Attleborough, Bucks county, February 15, 1813, and died in the hope of immortality, January 8, 1876, aged sixty-two years, ten months and twenty six days.
The New Jersey Conference sadly feel his loss. He was a powerful preacher, a faithful minister, an earnest christian. He was converted in 1832 and received into church by Rev. J. G. Bulaugh, who bade him God speed. He filled every station in the church, from a grave-digger and sexton to a presiding elder. He was ordained deacon in 1853 by Rev. Bishop Nazery, and was ordained elder in 1858 by Right Rev. Bishop Paul Quinn. The New Jersey Annual Conference deeply feel his loss. He was in a great measure instrumental in working it up to its present standard among the other conferences.
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