METHODISM IN AMERICA,
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The increase of this religious denomi
nation, perhaps is not exceeded by any
christian sect of the present age. A cur
sorry view of its history, will tend to justi
|fy the above assertion.


Mr.. Philip Embury, local preacher
from Ireland, was the first who landed il
America. He began to preach in the cit,
lof New York, and formed society in th'
year of our Lord l766 and the first Ame
Irican Methodist Church was erected part