the infirmities of his father, Frederick. Both his fa- tlier and his brotlier having died, he assumed the gov- ernment in his own name in 1527. In 1524 he had become acquainted with Luther, and adopted his views. In 1529 he accompanied the reformer to the Diet of Spires, where he signed, on the 19th of April, tlie cele- brated protestation agai^ist the " Majority Decision" of the German princes. The next year he went to tlie Diet of Augsburg, where he indorsed the Evangelical Confession on the 25th of June, on which occasion he boldlj' said to the emperor that " he would rather lose his head than renounce his religious convictions." Following out the plans of ecclesiastical reform of his brother Casimir, he framed in 1533 the Church organ- ization of Brandehliurg-Nurenibcrg, as also the liturgy which accompanied it, and whicJ! has been recently revived. He died at Onolzbach Dec. 17, 1543. See Pauli, Allfjem. Preuss. Stnatsgesch. iii, 457, 47G ; Buch- holz, Gesch. d. Kimnark Brandenburg, iii, 217, 29G, 305 ; Mosheim, CIi. Hut. iii, 42; Herzog, Real-Encykl. v, 28. George, Enoch, bishop of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, was born in Lancaster Co., Virginia, in 1767 or 17G8 ; was converted at about eighteen; en- tered the itinerancy in 17!)0 ; was maile presiding elder in 1796; 1801 and'lS02 located ; in 1803 re-entered the travelling ministry ; was elected bishop in 181G ; ^nd died at Staunton, Ya., August 23, 1828. He was the son of a planter in moderate circumstances, and of no religious profession. His mother died while he was young, and he acquired in }outh the gay and dissolute morals of the district where he lived. He was, how- ever, at this period deejily convinced of sin under the preaching of that holy man, the Rev. D. Jarratt (q. v.), of the English Church. But the subsequent re- moval of his father to North Carolina for a time left him to grow more wicked than before, until at length, with his father, he was converted by the instruniental- itj' of the Rev. John Easter. Although young, and exceedinglj' reluctant, he was thrust out bj' Ins breth- ren and his own inward convictions into public serv- ice, and for two or three years was very useful as an exhoiter, local preacher, and assistant on circuits with Philip Cox and Daniel Asbury. In 1790 he entered the itinerancy, and from tliat time he bore for many years the hardships and trials of a pioneer ^lethodist preacher. His usefulness and influence continually increased, and in 179G he was made presiding elder on a district whicli included Charleston, S. C, and his la- bors tliere resulted in a great revival of religion. In 1799 his health failed, and he became "superannu- ated." In 1800 he re-entered the itinerancy, but in 1801 his health failed again, and he located and opened a school at Winchester, in Virginia, and soon after married. In 1803 he re-entered the Conference. In 1816 he was delegate to the General Conference at Baltimore. In the same year his wife died. Bishop jNIcKendree's health had now nearly failed, and when the Conference met it was decided to elect more bish- ops, and the choice fell upon R. R. Roberts and Enoch George. From this time he labored with untiring zeal and universal acceptability in supervision, visitation, and in preaching the word with mighty power, until he was taken from labor to reward. His funeral sermon was preached bj' bishop IMcKendree at the General Con- ference of 1832. Bishop George was a man of large information, and of great activity and force of mind. His genius was very original ; the efl'ect of his preach- ing was very great. Dr. Samuel Luckey gives the fol- lowing account of a sermon by bishop George at John Street Church, New York, in June, 181G. "The sub- ject of the discourse was the conquest which Christ achieved over sin and death. He announced his text : 'When he ascended up on high, he led captivity cap- tive;' and, from the moment he uttered it, had com- plete command of his audience. The picture he drew of sin. and tlie desolations it has wrouf^ht, was truly I terrific. Like a mighty cataract, he rushed on with
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constantly increasing impetuosity, till everj' nerve that had braced itself to resist was unstrung, and his hearers seemed passively to resign themselves to an influence which was too strong for them. At a felici- tous moment, wlien the feelings of his audience would bear to be turned into a different channel, he exclaim- ed, in the language of holy triumph, and in a man- ner peculiar to himself, ' I!ut redemption smiled, and smiled a cure !' His train of thought was now changed, but the power of his eloquence was not at all dimin- islied. Sin had been ])ersonitied as the tyrant mon- ster, sv.-aying his dteinon sceptre over our race, and deatli in his train, dragging the conquered millions to their darlt abode. A mightier than these was now in- troduced— tlie sinner's I'riend and the conqueror of death. Ila came to destroy the works of the devil, and to deliver those who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage. The risen and ascended Saviour was represented as coming up from the empire of death, having seized the tjn-ant upon his throne, and then as triumphantly passing the portals of heaven amid tlie acclamations of heaven's shining hosts. The description was so vivid as to be almost overwhelming. The audience, which had just before seemed like a teiTor-stricken multitude, almost within the very grasp of the destroyer, now exhibited coun- tenances relumed with returning smiles. The whole assembly was actuallj' in a commotion" (Sprague, An- nals, vii, 193). — Minutes of Confer tnces, ii, 35 ; Wakely, Hiroes of Methodism, p. 137; Fry, Life of Bp. George (18mo) ; Stevens, Hist, of the Methodist IJpisc, Church, vols, iii, iv.