Sources for the history of the jNIethodist Episcopal Church especially: Jonrnnl.^ if tin' Hir. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist l-:/iisi;>ji,i/ Church (new ed., N. Y'. 1854. 3 vols. 12mo) ; J/;,/,//,,s- „/■ /lie Annual Confer- ences ofih,' MHl„>dhl l-.pi.^cnpnU'hnrch (N.Y. 29 vols. 8vo); Jnnrnith of ihr (;,n,ndConfrence of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church (X. Y. 12 vols. 8vo) ; Methodist Quarterly Review (N. Y. 54 vols.) ; A. Stevens, Memo- rials of the Introduction of Methodism info the Eastern States (N. Y". 2 vols.) ; J. B. Finley, Sketches of West- ern Methodism (N. Y. 12mo) ; and similar researches by Peck, Raybold, and others; Wake\y, Lost Chapters re- covered from the Early History of A merican Methodism ; id. Heroes of Methodism (N.Y."l2mo); Coles, Heroines of Methodism (N. Y\ 12mo) ; Stevens, Women of Meth- odism (N. Y^ 12mo) ; Rev. W. Reddy, Inside Views of Methodism, (N. Y. 18mo) ; W. P. Strickland, History of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church (N. Y. 12mo) ; Bishop Thomson, Our Oriental Missions (N. Y. 2 vols. IGmo) ; W. C. Smith, Pillars in the Temple, or Lives of Deceased Laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church
(N.Y. 16mo); Deems, Annals of Southern Methodism; Miller. Experience of German Meth. Preachers (Cincin' nati, 1859) ; Strickland, Life of Bishop A^hnry; u\. Pio- neers of the West (N.YM2mo); Stt'\riis. /,//;■ and Times of Nathan Bangs (N.Y. 1863) ; id. <s7/, t,l„ .< and Incidents (N. Y. 18mo); Larrabee, Asbury and his Coadjutors; Life ■ and Letters of Bishop Ilamline (N.Y. 12mo) ; Sandford, Wesley's J^Iissionai'ies to A merica ; G. Peck, Episcopacy and Slavery.
Collective histories of Methodism : the best univer- sal history of Methodism which the Methodist Episco- pal Church has ever produced is Dr. Abel Stevens's History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Cen- tury called Methodism, considered in its different denom- inational Forms, and in its Relation to British and A mer- ican Protestantism (N.Y. and Lond. 1858-61, 3 vols. 8vo and 12mo). The best history which was ever written in England is by Dr. George Smith : History oj' Meth- odism— vol. i, Wesley and his Times; vol. ii, The Middle Age of Methodism; vol. iii, Modem Methodism (Lond. 1857-62, 3 vols. 8vo). Earlier works: Jackson, Ceiite- nary of Wesleyan Methodism (Lond. 1839) ; Jonathan Grovither, Portraiture nf Methodism, or the History of the Wesleyan Metho<li.<t.<..<hoiriti(i tin Ir Wise, Progress, and present State; Bio<inipliir(il SL; /,■//, .< of some of their most ,mh,vi,t Minis/, rs.- /h, l)or/rii„s /hr M,tl,odists be- ll, r, ,u„l /, 'I,-/, fil/i/ ,!n,l ,j'/,li,-il/y s/a/,,/.- vi/l, /!„■ irhole Phil, ,f th,ir' Dis.iplin,. ii„-ln.liioi th, ir original L'n/rs and subsequent Regulations. A Iso a Defence of Method- ism (Lond. 1815, 8vo). Concerning the history of the Methodist Episcopal Church especially : Nathan Bangs, Hist, of the M,1h. Episc. Church from the Year 1766 to 1840 (N.Y. is:;'.i-ll. 1 vols. 12mo) ; A. Stevens, Hist, of the Meth. Epis,: ( Ininh (N.Y. 1865-67, 4 vols. 8vo and 12mo) ; Lee, Hist, of the Methodists; Strickland, Hist, of the J\Iissions of the M. E. Church (1st ed. Cincinnati, 1849); Gosa, Statistical Bisf. of Methodism (N.Y. 1866, 18mo) ; R. Emory, Hist, of the Discipline of the M. E. Church, revised and brought down to 1856 by W. P. Strickland (1st ed. N. Y. 1843) ; Charles Elliott, Hist, of the great Secession from the M. E. Church in the Year 1845, eventuating in the Organization of the new Church, entitled the M. E. Church South (Cincinnati, 1855, 8vo) ; Hist, of the M. E. Church in the South-west from 1844 to 1864, by the Rev. Charles Elliott, D.D., LL.D., edited and revised by the Rev. Leroy Vernon, D.D. (St. Louis, j\Io., 1872, 12mo). On Canada : G. F. Play ter, Hist, of Methodism in Canada (Toronto, 1862, 12mo) ; Gorrie, Lives of Eminent Methodist Ministers; etc.
Books on IMethodism. (a.) Polemical books. In- numerable anti-Methodistic works have been published since the days of Wesley. A list of 277 such books, which, however, are now almost forgotten, is given in alphabetic order by H. D. Decanver: Catalogue of Works in Refutation oJ' M' thoilism. from its Origin in 172'3 to the pi-esent Time' (VU\\:\. lsli;i.' {/,.) Philosupliical (pragmatical) studies: Isaac Taylcir, Wishy and Mi tloid- ■ism (Lond. 1851) — Introduction; \, Founders oJ' Method- ism ; 2, Substance of Methodism ; 3, Form of Methodism ; 4, Methodism of the Future. IMr. Taylor, a copious Cal- vinistic writer of tlic Anulicnn ( 'liiirch, was once a Dis- senter: 1'.. V.'\\\\{.M,tli,,ilis,„ Sii,;; ss/'iil.imd the Inte7-nal Causes of its Succiss ( N. Y. 1859). (c.) ^lore or less apol- ogetic are, James Porter, Compendium of Methodism, em- bracing the History and present Condition of its various Branches in all Cniinfrirs.vifh a Dr fence of its Doctrinal, Gonriini, ii/ol. ,,n,l I'm,!, „ii,il P, ,iili,irities (N. Y. 1851 ; 16th cd. isco. li'uio ) ; ( .rcr-v Smith. The Polity of Wes- leyan Methodism exhibited and defended (Lond. 1852, 12rao) ; P. D. Gorrie, Episcopal Methodism as it was and is (Auburn, N. Y. 1852, 12mo) ; Bishop Emory, Defence of our Fathers (N.Y. 8vo) ; T. E. Bond, Economy of Meth- odism (N.Y^8vo); J. Dixon, Methodism in its Economy (Lond. and N. Y'. 18mo) ; N. Bangs, Responsibilities of the M.E. Church (N.Y. 18mo) ; A..Stevens.Church Pol- ity (N.Y. 12mo); Moms, Church Polity (N.Y. 12mo); L. S. Jacobv, Ilandbuch des Methodismus, embracing its