Final Excerpt: Mrs. Asenath (Hatch) Nicholson's "The Bible in Ireland," 1852 reads" "Mr. Burke told me that the Methodists now number in Ireland about 29,000 members and 100 preachers. Certainly these indefatigable labourers have done no small business to make their way through Popery, Prelacy, Presbyterianism, and Independency. They are instant in season and out of season. Went to Arklow (Wicklow) at seven, and found a plain chapel, with a plain man in the pulpit, and heard a plain sermon preached to a plain people."