Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Side Lights on the Conflicts of Methodism: During the Second Quarter of the Nineteenth Century, 1827 1852
The self-same objectors, with more persistence than con sistency, then take up the directly Opposite position. They say these Journals should have been made public, if at all, whilst individuals were yet alive who might have shown the various speeches to be capable of a different Significance from that which they seem naturally to bear. Thus history is effectually deprived of its legitimate materials, and posterity is. Wronged Of its in estimable heritage of information and instruction! First, you must not publish while certain individuals are living: for that might hurt their feelings then you must not publish after they are gone, for possibly they might have supplied a different meaning from that which the words are ordinarily taken to convey.
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