Sketches of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, and its bibliography . of charactersfaithful, and the tone decidedly religious. The descriptionof some of the death-bed scenes will be read with tender in-terest, warming the heart with gratitude to God for His sup-porting, cheering and triumphing grace, as exhibited in thelast hours of Snethen, McCaine, the Reeses, the Stocktons,Jennings, French, Brown and others, all faithful and eminentsaints of the living God, of whom it may be truly said, Forthem to live was Christ, and to die was gain. To the hope expressed bj the author in his
Sketches of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, and its bibliography . of charactersfaithful, and the tone decidedly religious. The descriptionof some of the death-bed scenes will be read with tender in-terest, warming the heart with gratitude to God for His sup-porting, cheering and triumphing grace, as exhibited in thelast hours of Snethen, McCaine, the Reeses, the Stocktons,Jennings, French, Brown and others, all faithful and eminentsaints of the living God, of whom it may be truly said, Forthem to live was Christ, and to die was gain. To the hope expressed bj the author in his Preface, thatwe may emulate the noble example of our fathers and possessthe same spirit of Christ-like devotion to the truth which wasdisplayed in their lives, we heartily say Amen and cheerfully commend his work to the Church and thepublic, as worthy of h hearty reception and large deserves and should have a place in the library of everylover of civil and religious liberty. J. T. WARD, President of Western Maryland College. Westminster, Md., Feb. 14, REV. NICHOLAS SNETHEN. SKETCHES OF THE FOUNDERS Methodist Protestant Church. REV. NICHOLAS SNETHEN. 1769—1845. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.—Psa. 112: 6. All great enterprises, both in the civil and in thereligious world, are generally indebted to a few giantminds, for their inception and development. Gods ancient people had but one Moses, Mid theNew Testament Church, but one Paul, who unfurledthe banner of the Cross in the Metropolis of the world,and plead the cause of Christ before Imperial great Protestant Reformation had its Luther,Melancthon and Zwingle; and the Methodist Reforma-tion its Wesleys, Whitefield and Fletcher, in Europe ;and its Snethen, Asbury and Lee in America. Wemention Snethen first, in connection with AmericanMethodism; for, while we concede the piety and thegreat executive ability of Asbury, the zeal and devo-tion of Lee and others, yet for vari
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