Wesley the Worthy, AND Wesley the Catholic. BY REV. O. T. DOBBIN, LL.D., TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. WITH INTRODUCTION BY REV. W. ARTHUR, M.A. LONDON: WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. 1852. 210.2.478. THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE two papers reprinted in this volume appeared originally in periodical publications; the former, in our "Journal of Sacred Literature," an excellent Quarterly, conducted by Dr. Kitto, for January, 1849; the latter, in "The Methodist Quarterly Review," for April, 1850, published in New York, United States. There is a happy concurrence of view between both the writers, on the unsectarian character of the original religious movement of the Founder of Methodism, and the catholicity of the master spirit which directed that movement throughout. This appears to have formed the chief attraction for the pencil of both; and the portrait drawn is to be regarded as, in a great degree, an offering laid upon the altar of the Evangelical Alliance. Whatever may be the defects of the delineation in either case, none can fairly charge the authors with wanting a genial appreciation for the subject on which they have sought to exercise their skill. |