PUBLIC LIBRARY 217049 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1901 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. DREW THEOL. SEM. EPISCOPAL ADDRESS. To the Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church: DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN: We think it expedient to give you a brief account of the rise of Methodism, both in Europe and America. "In 1729 two young men in England, reading the Bible, saw they could not be saved without holiness: followed after it, and incited others so to do. In 1737 they saw, likewise, that men are justified before they are sanctified: but still holiness was their object. God then thrust them out to raise a holy people." These are the words of John and Charles Wesley. In the year 1766 Philip Embury, a Wesleyan Local Preacher from Ireland, began to preach in the city of New York, and formed a Society of his own countrymen and the citizens; |