AND DISCIPLINE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 1888. WITH AN APPENDIX. EDITED BY BISHOP MERRILL. NEW YORK: HUNT & EATON. EPISCOPAL ADDRESS. To the Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Dearly Beloved BrethREN: We think it expedient to give you a brief account of the rise of Methodism, both in Europe and America. "In 1729 two young men in England, reading the Bible, saw they could not be saved without holiness; followed after it; and incited others so to do. In 1737 they saw, likewise, that men are justified before they are sanctified: but still holiness was their object. God then thrust them out to raise a holy people." These are the words of John and Charles Wesley. In the year 1766 Philip Embury, a Wesleyan Local Preacher from Ireland, began to preach in the city of New York, and formed a Society of his own countrymen and the citizens; and in the same year, |