and the

Centenary of American Methodism.

CHAPTERS ON THE PALATINES; PHILIP EMBURY AND MRS. HECK;

AND OTHER IRISH EMIGRANTS,

WHO INSTRUMENTALLY LAID THE FOUNDATION OF

THE METHODIST CHURCH

In the United States of America,

CANADA, AND EASTERN BRITISH AMERICA.

BY

THE REV. WILLIAM CROOK,

Author of "Memorials of the late Rev. William Crook."

Third Thousand.

....

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well: whose branches
run over the wall: the archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated
him but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong
by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.”—GENESIS xlix. 22-24.

LONDON:

HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW ;

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE OFFICE; ELLIOT STOCK, PATERNOSTER ROW.

DUBLIN:

RICHARD YOAKLEY, 72, GRAFTON STREET.

1866.

"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 And its Methodism has had a parallel in the history of the denomination. blessings, not only to America, but to the Wesleyan Foreign Missions, and fo 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.

TO THE

REV. ROBINSON SCOTT, D.D.,

THE FIRST DEPUTATION FROM THE IRISH CONFERENCE

TO THE

General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,

OF

The United States of America :

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

As a Memorial of Private Friendship.