Year.
Ministers.
Members.
Yenr.
Ministers.
^lembers.
1765...
15
18l'3...
126
22,039
1706...
17
1824. . .
128
22,047
1707...
19
1825...
130
22,077
170S...
20
2,700
1820...
134
22,514
1769...
20
3,180
1827...
139
22,599
1770...
23
3,024
1828...
142
22,700
1771...
23
2,032
1829...
140
22,846
1772. . .
23
3,790
1830. . .
148
22,896
1773...
23
4,013
1831...
146
22,470
1774...
24
4,341
1832...
148
22,899
1775. . .
20
4,237
1833..
148
24,403
1776...
28
4,798
1834...
148
25,014
1777...
30 •
5,311
18.B5. ..
149
26,037
177S...
30
5,336
1836...
1.51
20,434
1779...
32
5,920
1837. . .
1.53
26,023
17S0. . .
34
6,100
1838...
1.54
20,244
17S1...
36
0, 1 05
1839...
1,57
20,383
1782...
34
6,612
1840...
100
27,047
17S3...
85
6,053
1841...
161
27,208
17S4...
39
0,429
1842...
160
27,030
17S5...
40
7,717
1843...
161
28,004
1780...
47
10,345
1844. . .
100
28,409
17S7...
r>i
11,313
1845...
1.58
27,926
17S8...
f>S
1--',213
1S46...
100
27,546
1789...
05
13,010
1847...
100
24,033
1790...
67
14,106
1848...
102
23,142
1791...
68
14,1.58
1849...
103
22,221
1792...
72
14,758
18.50...
157
21,107
1793...
70
14,144
1851 . . .
1.50
20,815
1794. . .
70
13,877
1852...
1.50
20,040
1195...
75
14,2.56
1853...
100
19,008
1796...
SO
16,742
1854...
100
19,233
1797...
81
17,004
18.55. . .
104
18,749
1798...
77
16,0.57
1856...
1.59
18,9.52
1799...
83
10,217
1857...
157
19,287
ISOO...
88
19,292
1858...
159
19,406
1801...
89
24,224
1859...
159
19,731
1802...
101
25,618
1860...
165
22,800
1803...
101
24,.505
1861...
103
23,551
1804...
101
21,906
1S02...
165
22,741
1805. . .
102
23,321
1863...
162
21,953
1800...
103
23,773
1864. . .
108
20,996
1807...
105
24,500
1865. . .
175
20,031
1808...
110
24,550
1866...
165
19,835
1809...
114
2.5,835
1867...
172
19,057
ISIO...
lis
27,810
1808...
175
19,.591
1811...
125
28,149
1809...
174
19,r>59
1812...
125
27,823
1870...
180
10,903
1813...
127
28,770
1871...
1S2
20,005
1814. . .
127
29,388
1872...
183
19.SS6
1815...
127
29,3.57
1873. . .
186
19,977
1816...
130
28,542
1874...
183
20,040
1817...
131
21,031
1875...
185
20,249
ISIS...
130
19,052
1870...
187
20,405
1819...
120
22,580
1877...
190
20,148
1820...
115
23,800
1878...
263
19,4.50
1821...
120
23,538
1879...
249
25,487
1822...
120
22,718
1880...
244
24,463
(WESL.) M. NEW CONNECTION 928 (WESL.) M. NEW CONNECTION
TII. Literature. — But few of the Irish INIcthodist preachers, as such, have had either leisure or disposi- tion to make free use of the press. Some preachers who left Ireland and joined the English Conference have written and published extensively. Dr. Adam t'larko, Henry INIoore, William Arthur, A.JL, AVilliam !^I vies, and James Creighton have each left their names permanently in the annals of English literature. With two or three exceptions, the literature of Ireland has not been much enriched by the preachers; not from want of ability, but owing to more pressing duties.
Kev. W. r. Appelbee, LL.D., has published three pam- phlets: one on T/ie Genuineness and Authenticitii of Holy Scripture:— one Calviimm Not the Theolorjij of t/te Bi- We;— and .4 Vindication of the Wesleyan Catechism.
Kev. George Alley has published Our Class Meetings, Their Scriptu ral A uthoritij and Practical Working (1868, 136 pp.).
Kev. J. C. Bass has published a poem. Life's True Be- atitude; or, Who is Wise? — also. Glimpses in America.
Kev. Robert G. Gather, LL.D., made very free use of his pen in newspapers, as secretary of the Systematic Beneficence Society.
Eev. G. W. Campbell, A.M., has become widely known by his Life of the Rev. Charles Graham, published in 1868 as The Apostle of Kerry (8vo, 324 pp.).
Kev. William Crook, D.D., is the most jirominent au- thor now in connection with the Conference. He has published. Funeral Services, on the death of his father : — Christian Consolation in Relation to the Dead in Christ, a sermon for W\ H. Barkin:— 7'/(e Memory of our Fa- thers, sermon on the death of John Nelson : — Our Heaven- ly Home, sermon for John Carey: — Paradise; or, The Present State of the Holy Dead, a sermon '.—Lay Preach- ing in D-eland, and the New Gospel: — Ireland, and the Centenary of American Methodism, an octavo volume of 263 pages. He has in press a History of Methodism in Ireland (in 2 vols.). He has also been the editor of the Irish Evangelist for many years.
Kev. John Dwyer has published Christian Thorough- ness, a memorial of T. A. Shillington, Esq., of Portadown. Rev. Thomas Pearson is the author of. The Iruh of the Irish Church, published anonymously, and a work of deep research : — The Bible and Temperance ; or. The True Scriptural Basis of the Temperance Movement. This is one of the most exhaustive works on the wines of the Bible, an octavo volume of 296 pages issued in 1881.
Rev. William Reilly has published A Memorial of the Ministerial Life of the Rev. Gideon Ouseley, Irish Mis- sionary. The Rev. William Arthur has also published a Life of Gideon Ouseley.
Mr. Ouselcj' himself was the author of thirty-four separate publications, with his name attached. They were chiefly letters of a controversial character, which were clear, powerful, and convincing ; and were of im- mense service, when published, in opposing the spread of popery, and in defending Methodist agency in Ire- land. The two principal works published by Mr. Ouse- ley were. Old Christianity against Papal Novelties, an octavo volume of 446 pages: — and Calvinism- A rminian- ism (1831, 18mo, 220 pp.).