1878. Volume III of III. Stevens was an American editor, historian and Methodist Episcopal clergyman. He suffered the trials of poverty and hard work in childhood and early on he was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. He began to preach when a mere youth, and before he was twenty-one years of age was regarded as a prodigy of eloquence. He opened the vein of American Methodistic history, and gave a long series of historical articles, which afterward appeared in the form of books, and, indeed, entered upon the investigations which produced his History of Methodism, one of the ablest and best-known works of its class. This volume covers from the Death of Wesley to Centenary Jubilee of Methodism. In his preface Stevens writes: This volume concludes my task-The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century called Methodism, considered in its different Denominational Forms and its Relations to British and American Protestantism. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Volume 1 ISBN 0766196194, Volume 2 ISBN 0766196208.