12. In Biil;iariu the Methodist Episcopal Church es- tablished a mission in 1857. Connected with it are two ordained ])reaehers, one at Constantinople and the other at Tultcha. These missionaries are engageil in preach- ing the (Josiiel, scattering religious reading, and trans- lating the New Testament into the Bulgarian tongue. The appropriation is 87841.
13. liecapitiddlidn. — The number of ^Methodists out- side of England and America, according to the best in- formation we can obtain, was in 18GG as follows :
Australia 42,194
West Indies 41,592
Ireland 20,000
Africa 19,403
British Provinces l.'i,29T
Germany and Switzerland 7,(;20
France 1,8S4
Ceylon 1,061
Norway 1,200
India 1,000
China 336
South America 193
Turkey IS
Total 101,515
The whole number of Methodists in the world would therefore figure at the present time about as follows :
Tnited States and Canada 2,591,875
(ircat Hiitain and Ireland 931,4.50
All others 270,675
Total 4,000,000
VII. Literature. — The sources for the history and doc- trine of the ]\Iethodists are as follows: H'or/*- of John Wesley (first complete edition, Bristol, 1771-74, 32 small volumes, fidl of typographical errors; 2d ed. 1809-13, 10 vols. 8vo, with a register, also containing errors; a critical edition was prepared by Thomas Jackson and published, London, 1831, 14 vols."8vo ; N. Y. 1831, 7 vols. 8vo); Memoirs of the late John Wesley, uith a lieriew of his Life and WritinffS, and a llistoiy of Methodism from its Commencement in 1729 to the present Time, by John Ilampson, A.B. (Sunderland, 1791, 3 vols. 12mo; translated into German, with remarks and ad- ditions by Niemeyer. Halle. 1793, 2 vols.); Burkhardt, Complete History of the Methodists in Kni/land (Niirnb. 1795, 2 vols.^; Life of the liev. John Weshy, .I..1/., in- cludiny an .1 ccoiint of the yreat Reviitd of Rdiyion in Kiirope and . I merica. of which he was thefrst and chief Instrument, by Dr. C^>ke and ISIr. Moore (Lond. 1792, 8vo) ; Life of John Wesley, collected from his prirate Papers and printed Works, and vritlen at the lieqmst of his Executors; to irhich is prejixed some Account of his Ancestors and Relations; vith the Life of Charles Wes- ley, collected from his prirate Journal, and nerer before publuthed — the vhole formiiif/ a Jliston/ of Methodism, in which the Principles and Kconomy of Methodism are unfolded (chiefiv from a London edition published by jdhn Whilehead. M.D.. Dublin, 1805, 2 vols. 8vo). Fo'r the sources of these biographies, see Currj", Remarks, in
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the addition to his revision of Southey's edition, i, 405, 406 ; Sermom bi/ Charles Wesley, with a Memoir of the Author (Lond. 1810); Journals of Charles Wesley, to which are appended Selections from his Correspondence and Poetry, with an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. T. Jackson (Lond. 2 vols. 8vo) ; Thomas Jackson, J/e- moirs of Charles Wesley, comprising Notices of his Po- etry, of the Rise and Progress of Methodism, and ofcon- temporari/ En iit.-< (imlCharacters (Lond. 8vo) ; William Myles, (,'///•',//, )/..v/r7// History of the People called Meth- odists, <f till' C'li/iiir/iiiii of the late Per. John Wesley, from their Pise in the Year 1729 to their last Conference m the Year 1802 (Loud. 1803, 12mo) ; Life of Wesley, and Pise and Progress of Methodlsm,hy Robert Southey, Esq., LL.D., with Notes by the late Samuel Taylor Cole- ridge, Esq.; and Remarks on the Life and Character of John Wesley, by the late Alexander Knox, Esq., edited by the Rev. Charles C. Southej', jM.A. (2d American edi- tion, with Notes, etc., by the Rev. Daniel Curry, D.D..
2 vols. l-_'mo, N. Y. IK 17) ; Richard Watson, Observatiom on Suiiih.ifs IJU "/' ir-s'. V (Lond. 1820); R.Watson, Lif of th i:/r..In!,n ir.xA// (Loud. 18.S1); A. Clarke, Memoirs tfihe Wesley Family (Lond. and N.Y.) ; Wm. C. Larrabee, Wesley and his Coadjutors (N. Y. 2 vols. 16mo) ; E. Janes, Wesley his own Historian (N.Y. 1872, r2mo); the Rev. L. Tyerman, /^i/e and Times of JiJnt Wesley, Founder of the Methodists (Lond. and N.Y. 187-_'.
3 vols. 8vo) ; and by the same author. The Oxford Meth- odists (Lond. and N. Y. 1873, 8vo) ; Complete Works of John Fletcher (Lond. 1815, 10 vols. 8vo; N. Y. 1831, 4 vols. 8\'o) ; Joseph Benson, Life of the Rev. John Wil- liam de la Flechere (Fletcher), compiled from the Nar- rative of the Rev. Mr. Wesley, the biographical Notes of the Rev. j\Ir. Gilpin, from his own Letters, and other authentic Documents (Lond. 1817, 8 vo; in German, with a Preface bv A. Tholuck, Berlin, 1833) ; Samuel Drew, Life of the Per. Thomas Coke. LL.D.. including in Detail h!.^ rmin„.< Tn,nf.< ,n/d r.r/nmn/inan, Mhshni.ini K.ver- thni.< in r.inf'iml. Ir.hiu,!. Aui.rira. ,,,„/ thr W,.<i Indies, ■with unAccuiud of his Death (^Lond. lS17,Svu; N. Y. 1847, 12mo) ; Extracts of the Journals of the Rev. Dr. Coke's Five Visits to A merica (Lond. 1793, 12mo) ; Stevenson, C«7?/ Road Chapel, Lomhm (Lond. 1863, 12mo) ; Annual Min- utes of thv .1/r///,v/;.v/ r,>,f, r,nce,from the First held in London hy ll,, hii, /,', r..l,,!iii Wi:sley,in the Year 17 Ai (sev- eral vols.); Aniiininn. Magazine, from 1778, now styled Weslryan .'ifrthodist Magazine (Lond.); London Quarter- ly Per icn; since l."^."i:) ; the great ecclesiastical weeklies — Watchman, Wesli yun Tintcs. etc. See also Gillie, Life of the Rev. George \Vh;i,f,hl (Lond. 1813) ; Philip, Life of White field ; Lif awl Tinns of the Countess of Hunt- ingdon (Lond. 2 vols.) ; :Mudge, Lady Huntingdon Por- trayed (N. Y'. 1857) ; Lives of Early Methodist Preach- ers, edited by the Rev. Thomas Jackson (Lond. 1839, 2 vols. 12mo); and numerous biographies from the time of the origin of Methodism.