L'histoire illustrée du méthodisme [ressource électronique]; l'histoire de l'origine et du progrès de l'église méthodiste, De sa fondation par John Wesley à l'actuelle dayWritten dans le style populaire et illustré par plus de mille portraits et vues de personnes . dans le grand feu de 1666, il n'a pas été fini jusqu'à la huitième année du règne d'Anne. Une statue de la reine, sceptre à la main, occupe la terrasse en pierre devant et porte le thème de deux siècles, à l'époque d'Addison et de Marlborough. Beaucoup des autres cathédrales anglaises peuvent être plus majestueuses, plus romantiques, plus ha

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The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . in the great fire of 1666, it was not finished until the eighth yearof the reign of Anne. A statue of the queen, scepter in hand, occupies thestone terrace in front and carries themind back two centuries, to the days ofAddison and of Marlborough. Many of the other English cathedralsmay be more majestic, more romantic, more haunting to the imagination thanSt. Pauls, but in general harmony, inindividual dignity, in essential suitabilityto the lordly civic life around it, St. Paulswill yield to none. It is one of the fewstructures of the kind which belong toone period only, and to one master mind.The same bishop held the see of Londonat the laying of its foundation stone andat its completion; the same architectwho drew the plans carried them to theirfinal execution, thirty-five years later;the same builder began and finished thestructure. The period to which it belongs isone of the most interesting in the his-tory of the English race. It saw the ar- 18 The Illustrated History of Methodism.. ST. PAULS CATHEDRAL, LONDON. bitrary personal rule which succeeded tothe inheritance of feudalism pass away andgive place to the constitutional monarchywhich is but a veiled republicanism.The commercial greatness of England, rendered possible by the defeat of theArmada, but delayed by the long struggleof the civil war, now began to assert it-self. Those changes wbich were tomake London the commercial center ofthe world, that is to say its real centerin very many respects, were now inprogress. The spirit of Kngland wasaristocratic-republican, like the greatcommercial cities of mediaeval Italy Itwas fitting that the architecture of thetypical edifice of the age should be bor-rowed from the country of the Medici. Few s

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