Chapters on the Palatines; Philip Embury and Mrs. Heck; And Other Irish Emigrants

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. When we consider the peculiar difficulties of their field of labour, the poverty of their societies, the formidable barbarism which Popery has imposed upon the Celtic population, the popular tumults and rebellion, the wretched accommodation of the itinerants, and the continual drain upon their congregations by foreign emigration, and yet their persistent labour and success, it may indeed be doubted whether the energy of Irish Methodism has had a parallel in the history of the denomination. And its blessings, not only to America, but to the Wesleyan Foreign Missions, and to England itself, in the gift of many eminent preachers, entitle it to the grateful admiration of the whole Methodist world. - Dr. Stevens's History of Methodism, iii. p. 426.