The era of frauds in the Methodist Book Concern at New York

Dedication

The fathers of Methodism by whose toils and sacrifices the Book Concern was founded, adopted the following, which has remained the law of the Church to the present :

"the profits arising from the Book Concern, AFTER A SUFFICIENT CAPITAL TO CARRY ON THE BUSINESS IS RETAINED, SHALL BE REGU- LARLY APPLIED TO THE RELIEF OF TRAVELING, SUPERNUMERARY AND SUPERANNUATED MINISTERS, THEIR WIVES, WIDOWS AND CHILDREN."

I dedicate this narrative to the above worthy servants of the Church, who were long deprived of what belonged to them, by mismanagement and frauds.