The last quarter of the seventeenth, and the first decade of the eighteenth, century were needed for building the cathedral church of the metropolis of the world. Though thus a church of two centuries, it is a building of but one generation; for throughout the period of its erection there were but One mas ter-builder, one architect, and one bishop of the diocese. While St. Paul's was in building there was born in England the ar chitect, master-builder, and bishop of another London ecclesi astiosl edifice — a building of God, a spiritual house not made with hands, whose materials were living stones — who, though he lived nearly across the eighteenth century, did not live long enough to finish the work he began. The Making of Metho dism is a work of the generations for the generations; and, since to-day it probably occupies the position of the first Prot estantism of the world, it is beginning to look as if it might prove the Church of the Centuries.