”Sections XII, XIII, XIV, XV, & XVI,—Methodist Episcopacy.— Title Bishop.—Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church.— Leaving Mr. Wesley’s name off the Minutes.—Mr. M’Caine’s Arithmetical calculations.

On the first named of these sections Mr. M’Caine says, ‘I find but little in this section worthy of remark, that has not been reviewed already.’ And as, in the additional strictures which he nevertheless makes, we find nothing worthy of farther remark, we shall pass on. And for the same reason, and wishing moreover to profit somewhat from the suggestion (in the absence of the example) on our opponent, to write ‘in a neat, condensed, logical, and methodical manner,’ not ‘compounded and confounded, affirmed and repeated, until his book has grown to the number of one hundred and forty four instead of ‘ninety-two pages,’ we shall also pass over sections xiii, xiv, xv, and xvi, barely remarking on the latter, that a writer who could take the pains, as Mr. M’Caine says he did, to count six hundred and seventy words, and half words, of our quotations, would not have been staggered at the toil of adding up a few columns of figures, in order to be sure of the accuracy of his ‘arithmetical calculations.’ In regard to the volume of Minutes ; published by Daniel Hitt and Thomas Ware in 1813,’ whether the plan on which it was executed was the best or not, there are few persons, we apprehend, who will be easily persuaded that it was adopted with a view to alter the records of the church, in order to cover the fraudulent introduction of a ‘surreptitious’ Episcopacy. Mr. Ware is still alive to speak for himself; and if Mr. M’Caine could believe him guilty of so corrupt a procedure, we wonder how he ventured to bring him forward as a witness on another occasion. Whatever other points are embraced within the sections above named, we are perfectly willing to rest them, without farther discussion, on the explanations and statements under their respective titles, in the ‘Defence of our Fathers.’ ”