Excerpt from Jesse Lee, a Methodist Apostle Sitting down to my pleasant task, there lie before me the three chief sources of in formation concerning the remarkable man and minister of whom I am to write. These are, the very scarce work, by the subject of this biography, A Short History of the Methodists in the United States of America (baltimore, Memoir of the Rev. Jesse Lee, with Extracts from His Journals, by Minton Thrift, New York, 1823; and The Life and Times of the Rev. Jesse Lee, by Leroy M. Lee, D.D., his nephew (charleston, S. C., Jesse Lee's own very copious manuscript journals were burned in the Methodist Book Room fire in New York in 1836, but not until Thrift had made valuable extracts from them, from which all later writers on Jesse Lee must quote. If Dr. Leroy M. Lee's book of 517 pages, octavo, is too small to set forth the character of such a great man, what can be expected in a booklet like this? 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.