The Evangelical Association was a revival movement at the beginning ofthe 19th century, which reached out to the large numbers of German-Americans who had settled throughout the mid-Atlantic andMidwestern states. Their founder, Jacob Albright (1758-1808), and hiscolaborers developed indigenous and distinctive patterns of hymnodyand worship set in a German idiom. For three decades after Albright'sdeath, the Evangelicals were without a bishop until in 1839 a promisingyoung circuit preacher named John Seybert was made the first "constitutional"bishop of the Evangelicals. This book traces the history and ministry of this founding father of what eventually became the United Methodist Church.