Inskip, John S

Inskip, John S.

a noted Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Huntingdon, England, in 1816, and. came to America in 1820. He was converted at fourteen years of age, in 1836 joined the Philadelphia Conference, in 1845 was transferred to the Ohio Conference, in 1852 to the New York East Conference, later to the New York Conference, the Baltimore Conference, and finally, again to the New York East Conference, in all, of which he occupied important stations until his super-annuation in 1873, after which he was editor of the Christian Standard, in Philadelphia, until his death, at Ocean Grove, N.J., March 7, 1884. He was a pleasing and successful evangelist, and in his later years a powerful advocate of entire sanctification. He made a memorable defence of himself before the General Conference of 1852 from the charge of innovation in his pastoral rulings at Springfield, Ohio, concerning family sittings in the congregations. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1884, page 94.