Excerpt from A Comprehensive History of Methodism: In One Volume; Embracing Origin, Progress, and Present Spiritual, Educational, and Benevolent Status in All Lands The Object Of the writer has been to combine the most instructive features of Methodist history from the beginning in their chronological order, and in a manner to bring them within the reach of the masses Of our people, both as to price and the time meces sary to compass them. In doing this, he has tabu lated many statistics, to which few have ready access, that must often be very useful, even to ministers. His aim has beento make the work correct and convenient for every body who desires to mark the providence Of God in the wonderful achievements it details. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.