OPalmer, Phoebe Worrall1807╨1874evangelist and religious writerBorn in New York City on December 18, 1807, Phoebe Worrall was reared in a strict Methodist home. In September 1827 she married Walter C. Palmer, a homeopathic physician and also a Methodist. From the beginning of their married life they shared a deep interest in their religion and in the task of carrying it to others. They became active in the revivalist movement in the 1830s, and from 1835 Phoebe Palmer conducted, at first jointly with a sister and later alone, regular women╒s home prayer meetings. Gradually the meetings became known as the Tuesday Meeting for the Promotion of Holiness, and they became Centers of theGrowing ╥Holiness╙ movement that sought the goal of Christian perfection. By the early 1840s the hundreds who had come under her direct influence included two bishops of the Methodist Church. As the meetings grew, they were moved from her home to larger accommodations. During the 1840s Palmer also became active in charitable work among the poor and the imprisoned, and for 11 years from 1847 she was corresponding secretary of the New York Female Assistance Society for the Relief and Religious Instruction of the Sick Poor. In 1850 she led the Methodist Ladies╒ Home Missionary Society in founding the Five Points Mission in a notorious slum district of New York. She was also a regular contributor to the Guide to Holiness, the chief periodical of the perfectionist movement, and she wrote a number of books, including The Way of Holiness, 1845, Entire Devotion, 1845, Faith and Its Effects, 1846, Incidental Illustrations of the Economy of Salvation, 1852, Promises of the Father, 1859, and Pioneer Experiences, 1868. From 1850 Palmer evangelical activities began to branch out, as she and her husband began making annual tours of the eastern part of the country and Canada, during which they visited Methodist camp meetings and conducted their own holiness revivals. From 1859 to 1863 they lived in England, where they conducted revivals that stirred thousands. During that period, in 1862, Dr. Palmer bought the Guide to Holiness and named Phoebe Palmer the editor, a task she fulfilled for the rest of her life. In 1865 she published a record of her British experiences as Four Years in the Old World. From its organization in 1867 the National Association for the Promotion of Holiness provided the institutional framework for much of their evangelical work, which gradually extended over the entire country. Palmer continued in that work and in her Tuesday Meetings until her death in New York City on November 2, 1874. styl ` ! ¬ 5¬ ! 5¬ B !I é !I ô !I ⌠ !I !I !I !I & !I ; !I B !I w !I !I Ä !I Å !I ò !I í !I ┤ !I ╛ 5¬ ┐ !I M !I ^ !I ≡ !I !I link `
