Excerpt from The March of Methodism: From Epworth Around the Globe, Outlines of the History, Doctrine, and Polity of the Methodist Episcopal Church From Epworth Rectory to Epworth League the march of Methodism has been victorious and grand. The conflicts have been many and severe, but the con quests have been glorious. The story as now recited will be an inspiration to multitudes who are longing to live holy lives, and to influence their fellows to flee from the wrath to come. The members of the Holy Club little dreamed of the results that were to flow from the assembling of them selves together. Organization into classes, societies and Conferences seemed imperative; general rules became necessary; statement of doctrine was required; lay preaching, itinerancy, and episcopacy were emergent; an alliance was demanded between Church and school. 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.