The New York herald., 1871-03-19

Ing broken the law. There were six millions OF Ro-
man Catholics In the I'm ed Kingdom, not one OF
Whom was permitted 10 sit in tue House or Com
mons, although elected by the largest constituency
IA the klagdon. And not only were the members
! yonr great town Itself, and the towns OF Manches-
! ter. Leeds sheffield and many other great towns
ana al the portions OF The metropolis exc pi the
! city OF London tue borough oil southwark and the
| city OF Westm nser were totally wnnout Parlamen-
| ol Faflameht came irom IN those davsr WI
tel YOU lhey We're returned 10y what were
called the rotten boronghs' aud not by the popn-
ialiun Ihat was the sLate oi Things Whch eAlsted
| al the Tune speak o..n
IsrnpIAcE on AMERICAN MrHoarsn.
The persecution OF Protestanls IN Germany ana
France after the reformation drove many hundreds
| OF them 10 seek an asylum in Great BrItain ana
| nelaud In the last named country they settled
chiely n hil country ol ilpperary and Kilkenny
and Limerick, anu the region where their posterity
are iUuAa IN fipperary Is known at th.s Gay as
| "Paantne H,lisa near Balngary and great
coal region. The direct descendants OF the Old
Iaiatnate Christian eXlles were quite nuineious
1 there IWenry years AGO aud neary every one OF
| them were thritg ana Wei-to-d0 ana all
1 were Mcthodists. The Spailings, SwitZels, Dnl-
| mas es and other like names VIII be ready recog-
nzeG Dy those VINO have been to that part OF
OF American Methodsm hrst came, and the nr-t
society ol dye members was formed by Philip
Eln6llTy one IL the German sa Immigrants m
h own n0use IN Chis city IN 1876. Tie nrst MeEho
dist church "A America was erected III sohn street.
where the present church now stands, ana was
ference was held IN Philadelphia IA 1878, and con-
slsteu y ten preachers, VINO le3orted member
IN Baltimore IN 1854. Mehodism on this continent,
IL viii be seen, began about the same Time tnat
the Colonies were striving Tor ana attained tneir
dependence, 50 that "tne Church ana state have
grown ~ together, aud ~ Their proSress
ana growth nave become Tie wonder OF
tue world. The extent or This country and
It's prospective increase OF popuati n, 10 ether with
The gleat distance l oms The parent Genoalmanon
maze 10 carry manifest that the Church, as well
the state should be INDEPENDENT OF the motaer coua
Try Tue inIant Methodist Church hal 70 depend
very largely upon local preachers Tor tue ninls,ra
tOn Of the Gospel. Wesley ana Nhiteheid crossed
tue ocean several umes. anu truyersed HE soaooard
OK these Juitel s.ates organizing societies. founu
Ing churches aud orcataIng ministers ana preach.
iLg the Gospel win great power. Their success was
mlrvclllas, Notwithstanding they were received
very cooIy by Their brethren Of otner dcnomlnatons
aAd met Win some opposition also. Bat the socie-
cls Asbury We're ordained bishops or
srFERI STENDENFs OF raE METHODIST cnCRCH
ia'Ameriea, aud were sent hitler. They had been
members OF the British Wesleyan Conference or
some years before. DR.. Coke died at sea, III Nay,
1914, ~ thc age sixty-seyen, and Mr.. Asbury died
Ihey succeeded by Richard Whatcoat also {,
member 1 me Brush Wesleyan Conference, or.
daaed a bishop OF the Methodist Episcopal Cnurcn
OF America IN iee0. lie uie l. Deaware III lSu6
aEea seventy -oAe years. lie was the last OF the
supernteuaents sent from the oner side. William
M'hendree,-ord VI med bsnop IN 1905 dlel III le35
aEed seventy eight years; Enoch George, ordained
IA 1916 died in irainia IN lo2o, aged SIXTY; Robert
hlcnIord LoDeis, ordained u lSl, oed Ia lndia IN
lS43, aged siXtynNe; Joshua SoUlt ordained III ol4
entered the Methodist Episcopal Church South when
Methoulsu here splt up oh the slavery question,
and died III 1867 EnJan Heu1Ina, ordained Ia
lS2 died ia l552 aged seyeniy-two yea 5:
James C)sgood Andrews ordained 1882: went VITA
the Church south a,sO IN 1885, he died recently john
Emory, ordained lSa2 dled 1915 aged iyrtl seven;
Beverly Waugh ordained 1886, DIED 1858 ag1l siAly-
nine. Thomas A. MOTIFS, ordained 1888, sill ilvlng
but very OLD anu feeble; Le0nldas Lent Hamine,
0aiued 1914. resigned MS Office IN 1S52 ana d.ed IN
1865; Edmund ;. Jaues ordained the same year,
sun lives, citizen OF New YORK: Levi Scott, o. Z.
BAKER, N. olmilsol and H. X. AlLes, ordained lS52,
Stlll 1--we: Francs Balus, cooled, ordained MISSION
airy bishop " Loef a. Africa, IN 1895 diei ID this
country IN 1885, d. w. Clark, ordained 1851, S lives
III ONO: Edward Thompson anu calvin Kingsley,
osualued bishops AT the same time. nave died during
the past year the ioriner II his post III Nheen. &,
Va aud the after IN Dcyloul. syria, rone from
tae india AM emma Conferences 10 tnis country.
Jonn ". Roberts, coioied, was ordained mis- slonary
bishop 20 LIBERIA IN 1866 lie Is sun ase. These
are ai the ecclesa tical superiBteldents which the
Methodist Churcn IL Anne nas or mas had from
igs infancy 10 the present
IL was perceived AZ al carly date here also that IL
the peCuDar doctrines aud poity OF The Metnodl,t
EulscOpai church was 10 o. maintained IN any de-
gree OF purify tue people must nave
IIiERArURE or raEiR owf.
"Book COncernN was therefore established In
Phlade phia as early as I7ya on borrowed capital
ot 500. The Methodist Cnurcn had not then 50
many eminent scholars IN its ranks as II now boasts
OF ana rna ..tuucerni' was \ very small affair kev
John Dickens was appointed IT. first agent, and ms
business was manly - supply BlDles, hymn books
and suen oner imported Engtsi books as the neces-
sites OF the Churcn here demanded. There very
little thought then Enat the Methodist Book Concern
would become what II Is to-day the largest PUBLISH
iDg house III the United States-or that 1t Would
ever he called upon 10 spend so much money hunting
Tor frauds which can't De found. In 1o04 inc
New YORK, where Reys Ezeklel cooper and John
WILSON, Daniel iiItt Thomas Ware, Joshua SOult lai-
terWards bisiopl. Thomas Mason, Nathan Bangs,
John Emory afterwards bishop. Beverly Waugh
afterwards blsnop) and George Lane were ap-
pointe agents until 1885, wnen the Concern was de-
stToyed 10y fire. involving loss o. s250,U0J. II was
so0u rebuilt, and Rev. 4. Mason ana Il. Lane were,
in lSlo, charged with It's business again. Revs. q.
b. Iippett, Levi scott now bishop) Thomas Carl
ton present agent, Y. philips, James torler, John
Lanahan ana Elea@er Thomas have successfully oc-
cupled ard some Oh them stn oceury, the responsi-
o Inpre
are other agents Tor the western Book Concern and
the various branches The AGENTS publish over 300
dne.ent bound volumes and ABOUT l,09J unbound
in the several languages spoken IN this country.
1hey also publish about score OF magazines quar-
terry revle rs, m0nt1y aud weekly papers IN the m
teest the DIN rent connectional Institutions or
The Church, such as the Missionary Tract, Cnnrch
success Of American Me nodisIn Is due mainly. Ii not
altogether, 10 this feature iii It's Church pollty. IL
has IN a century oustrpped the British parent and
almost doaDled the membership, and It's access.ons
during lie iast decade are greater than is entire
memDefshp IN 1915, after IT. nalf century OF labor.
LIS total lay membership last year was 1867, lsi and
preachers regular ana local, 2l,23s. lis churches
number 1875, and the value OF lis church edinces
ana parsonages II III rouna numbers sdoUooooO.
Its sunday schools nunber 1851. INTO which were
gathered last year l,24lS 1913 scholars ana lS9,4l2
teachers. us benevolent contributors for the year
amounted TO about one million dollars. II viii he
understood here q course, that only one branch OF
The great Methodist family in America is now under
consldefatlOn-he MethodlSt Episcopal Church.
TIE EpUcA1ioNAL !, sTiTUTIoHs
Of the demo oni0aiion may be ella siiied as follows:
tTenty-sgycn scattered ali over the country, from
New York 10 CaiiiUrnIa second. theological semi
nacles. oi which there are six one, however, BEN
located in Frankfort on the aaln and, thlrd
narieS, iclaie colleges and academies OF wnch mere
are ,lXty-nine located tHcntyfOur states OF The
Union. The number OF students, indie an J iemae,
instructed III those Institutions durng Inc last
demIc year was l6,30J and TIE number OF iastiucr-
$50. Inc aggregate number or volumes In the
liUraries OF tAe uniyeisile5 and theological senl-
Mares was l7l7s9. me endowments OF those two
classes OF educational institutions amouD5 IN The
aggregate 10 ~, Go5l23. AID the aggregate income
to S24j534. The value Of the buildings. &C., OF all
sorts, Tor the three classes OF l1sttuti ms, rs
$J,Sj7,939. TOcse institutions nelp 10 make the
literature OF the Methodist Church. ana the lttera-
tuje, in turn, helps 10 bulid and sustain them.
TIE ANNUAL CONFERENCES
number "a They are organized without any reference
70 geographical limits, Dut solely Tor tie conve-
nlence the Ihurcn's work II is believed that
ABOUT onefouriB Oh The popuiafion Of tnis country
are either really or nOmn3ily MeihOdists Tire grand
characteristic oi Methudsm Is 70 nave all Is loow-