[7] Ib.p.13, 14.
If religion consists in listening to long prayers, and attending long sermons, in keeping up an outside appearance of devotion, and interlarding the most common discourse with phrases of Gospel usage:--if this is religion, then are the disciples of Methodism pious beyond compare.

But in real humility of heart, in mildness of temper, in liberality of mind, in purity of thought, in openness and uprightness of conduct in private life, in those practical virtues which are the vital substance of Christianity,--in these are they superior?
No.

Public observation is against the fact, and the conclusion to which such observation leads is rarely incorrect.

* * The very name of the sect carries with it an impression of meanness and hypocrisy.

Scarce an individual that has had any dealings with those belonging to it, but has good cause to remember it from some circumstance of low deception or of shuffling fraud.