The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . DAVID HUME. which the latter seems to have consid-ered not undeserved; for he certainlybore no ill-will to Mr. Drew, whose Es-say on the Soul he generously reviewedsome years later. As he wrote this re-view for Cannings Anti-Jacobin Review,he must have been possessed of some lit-erary standing. The great quarterly reviews w
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . DAVID HUME. which the latter seems to have consid-ered not undeserved; for he certainlybore no ill-will to Mr. Drew, whose Es-say on the Soul he generously reviewedsome years later. As he wrote this re-view for Cannings Anti-Jacobin Review,he must have been possessed of some lit-erary standing. The great quarterly reviews whichwere founded in the beginning of thenineteenth century showed themselveshostile to Methodism. The rapid prog- 352 The Illustrated History of Methodism. GEORGE COLMAN. ress of the Methodists had begun toalarm the friends of the national clerical element on the staff of theEdinburgh Review was represented bySydney Smith, well-known as the wittycanon of St. Pauls. With many vir-tues, this cleric had also many of the de-fects of the worldly-minded , he reminds us at many points ofChaucers fair prelate, and bears butlittle resemblance to the poor but won-drous diligent parson, who Dwelt at home, and kepte well his fold. It is difficult to read without indignationthe bitter attacks on Methodism made inthe Edinburgh Review of January, 1808,and of April of the next year. Theearlier article closes in a would-be piousstrain: To the learning, the modera-tion, and the rational piety of the Es-tablishment, we most earnestly wish adecided victory over the nonsense, themelancholy, and the madness of the tab-ernacle. God send that our wishes benot in vain. An answer to this and other attacks, made by John Styles,brought do
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