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 . ich John Xelson had forsome time been attached; andthere was also a class ofScotch Highlanders of a se-rious turn of mind, whomWesley addressed. Abouttwenty miles southwest ofLimerick, there is a district still knownas the Palatine, from a colony of Ger-mans who were settled there early in theeighteenth century They were Lu
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 . ich John Xelson had forsome time been attached; andthere was also a class ofScotch Highlanders of a se-rious turn of mind, whomWesley addressed. Abouttwenty miles southwest ofLimerick, there is a district still knownas the Palatine, from a colony of Ger-mans who were settled there early in theeighteenth century They were Lu-theran Protestants, who had been drivenfrom their homes in the infamous devas-tation of the Palatinate by the Frencharmies at the close of the seventeenthcentury The story of the great Protestant ex-odus from the Palatinate is an interestingone. The woes of that beautiful prov-ince lying on the western bank of theRhine began at the close of the seven-teenth century Its position France-ward excited the cupidity of the GrandMonarch, to whom it was as Xaboths vineyard. T oadd it to the pos-sessions of themonarchy atParis, and thusmake the Rhineits eastern fron-tier, became hisconsuming d e -sire. F o r o v e r acentury the rul- PHIIJP KMBURY. r A T) , ers of the Pala-.
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