The junior history of Methodism [electronic resource]: for young people, study classes in Epworth League and the general reader . politest people I have everseen. Wales was hard soil, but under the labors of GriffithJones and Howel Harris Methodism was well planted,and has made healthy growth. Scotland was visited by Wesley and Whitefield, andthe work begun; but Scotland has never been goodMethodist soil. By the time of Wesleys death Methodism had beenestablished for twenty-five years in America and madewonderful progress, which we are to trace in the suc-ceeding chapters. QUESTIONS. 1. Tell w
The junior history of Methodism [electronic resource]: for young people, study classes in Epworth League and the general reader . politest people I have everseen. Wales was hard soil, but under the labors of GriffithJones and Howel Harris Methodism was well planted,and has made healthy growth. Scotland was visited by Wesley and Whitefield, andthe work begun; but Scotland has never been goodMethodist soil. By the time of Wesleys death Methodism had beenestablished for twenty-five years in America and madewonderful progress, which we are to trace in the suc-ceeding chapters. QUESTIONS. 1. Tell what you can about George Whitefield. 2. Tell what you can about Charles Wesley and his hymns. 3. Tell what you know about John Fletcher. 4. When did John Wesley die ? Give his dying testimony. 5. In what countries was Methodism found at Wesleys death ? METHODISM PLANTED IN AMERICA. 49 CHAPTER XI. METHODISM PLANTED IN AMERICA. Methodism has done its greatest work in America. The Wesleys and Whitefield preached in America,but no churches were founded by them. It was notuntil 1766 that the work really began on this continent;. Philip Embury. twenty-seven years after its rise in England, and twenty-five before John Wesleys death. In 1760 a party of emigrants sailed from Limerick, Ireland, for New York. The chief figure was a thought-4 50 JUNIOR HISTORY OF METHODISM. ful, resolute young man named Philip Embury. Hisparty consisted of his wife, Mary ; two of his brothersand their wives; Peter Switzer, a brother to his wife ;Paul Heck and his wife, Barbara, and a few others lessprominent. Philip Embury was a carpenter by trade ;had been converted in 1752. Dr. Stevens says of him, He had been one of the first fruits to Christ among hiscountrymen, had been the class leader of their infantchurch, and often in their humble chapel had ministeredto them the word of life. The story of his conversionis preserved in his own handwriting; it reads: OnChristmas Day, being Monday ye 25th of Decembe
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