Excerpt from The Methodist Almanac: For the Year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1834: Being the Second After Bissextile, and the Fifty-Eight of American Independence, Containing All the Customary Calculations in Equal or Clock Time A long life nobly planned, a radiant ministry gloriously ended, a world wide bishopric heroically exemplified, all witnessed and certified by a grateful church, must give his name a high place among the immortals of American Methodism. 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.