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 . as sottishness or opium. They have already ob- tained as distinct a physiognomy as theJews, or the Gypsies; coarse, hard, anddismal visages, as if some spirit of dark-ness had got into them, and was lookingout of them. He goes on to deprecatethe wide sale throughout the kingdomof the Evangelical and Methodist maga-zines, wh
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 . as sottishness or opium. They have already ob- tained as distinct a physiognomy as theJews, or the Gypsies; coarse, hard, anddismal visages, as if some spirit of dark-ness had got into them, and was lookingout of them. He goes on to deprecatethe wide sale throughout the kingdomof the Evangelical and Methodist maga-zines, whose bigotry, fanaticism, anduncharitableness are melancholy proofsof human weakness. He compares theinfluence of Methodism upon educatedpeople to a mildew blasting all geniusin the bud, and withering every flowerof loveliness and of innocent aggressiveness of the new sectfills him with fear lest it will soon proveas strong as the Establishment. Hecredits its leaders, from Wesley down-ward, with an ambition to found a churchthat should rival, and finally supersedethe state Church; and he even goes on toinsinuate that they contemplated an al-teration of the reigning dynasty! Thedisintegration of society which wouldresult from the supremacy of separatists. ROBERT SOUTHEY. The Illustrated History of Methodism. 355
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