Excerpt from The Making of Methodism: Studies in the Genesis of Institutions The last quarter of the seventeenth, and the first decade of the eighteenth, century were needed for building the cathedral church of the metropolis of the world. Though thus a church of two centuries, it is a building of but one generation; for throughout the period of its erection there were but One mas ter-builder, one architect, and one bishop of the diocese. While St. Paul's was in building there was born in England the ar chitect, master-builder, and bishop of another London ecclesi astiosl edifice - a building of God, a spiritual house not made with hands, Whose materials were living stones - who, though he lived nearly across the eighteenth century, did not live long enough to finish the work he began. The Making of Metho diem is a work of the generations for the generations; and, since to-day it probably occupies the position of the first Prot estantism of the world, it is beginning to look as if it might prove the Church of the Centuries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.