However, by God's help, we maintain our ground, and though some of our members are corrupted with the wild enthusiasm of the new sect, I hope the measures I use to strengthen and establish my people in the faith of Christianity according to the doctrines of the Church of England, will by God's blessing prevent this new Methodism, or, rather, down-right distraction in the shape it now appears among the itinerant sectaries, from gaining much ground among us."

" WOODSIDE."

RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH H LEV/lij. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.

WHITE PLAINS.

In another letter, written eighteen months hiter, dated March 25, 1743, he complains that the jjeople " are unsettled in their principles, and go after all sorts of teachers that come in their way, and many of them are much confused by the straggling Methodist teachers that are continually among us.'' From these letters it appears that the " new Methodism " was fast gaining ground.

In Mr. Wetmore's letter in September of the same year he writes: "As to the state of my parish, nothing very remarkable has happened since my last, but I find my cares and labors much increased by having two (iirobably one at White Plains and the other at Rye) Independent Methodist teachers settled by that party in my parish, besides exhorters and itinerants that frequently call people together and instil wild and entliusiastic notions into them ; they have made much confusion in the remote parts of my parish, but chiefly among those who always were Dissenters."