A careful student of church liturgies, John Wesley created this book for use in the Methodist churches of North America in order that the young movement would have access to reliable liturgy. This book is, in its own sense, a masterpiece of solid doctrine, Wesleyan inspiration, and liturgical practice. "The Sunday Service of Methodists in North America" has been available as a reprint of the original book for many years. However, this edition does what others have not done until now: Rather than photocopying the pages of the original book, we have painstakingly typed each word and character to match the original text, and formatted the book for contemporary usage (included an updated and easily readable font), while maintaining Wesley's own language, spelling, and grammar.

In 1784 John Wesley revised the Church of England Book of Common Prayer for American. His Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America was a conservative work of one who loved the two-century-old prayer book but say the need to adapt it to the times. The newly organized Methodist Episcopal Church adopted the book as the church's official liturgy at the Christmas Conference in 1784. By its services, the first bishops and clergy of the church were ordained and the first communions were celebrated. Although the book as a whole remained in use only eight years until 1792, it provided the framework for Methodist rites for over two hundred years. The Collection of Psalms and Hymns was Wesley's first collection of songs recommended for public worship.

A page by page replication of a Princeton University holding of Rev. John Wesley's "The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America." This book includes directly scanned pages, without the use of optical character recognition, printed in black and white.