Methodist Church

Ethel Bryant (later EW ) was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, of Wesleyan Methodist missionary parents. She was their only surviving child.

After this tirade the novel is more fun than one might anticipate. The title-page quotes Sir John Vanbrugh . The story opens with SG 's gentleman hero, Percival Ellingford, a recent convert to Methodism ...

McDonald chose the Gilbert household as the base from which to pursue his mission, until he died of a violent fever on 4 December 1798. His death was a solemn yet, as their religion decreed...

Though she was and remained, she said, a staunch Churchwoman myself, and yield to no one in pure love and reverence for my own form of worship, she was nonetheless warm in her tribute...

Hers was a prosperous middle-class, Methodist family, with an Irish background on her mother's side. The speaker of Rukhmabai in Idylls of Womanhood depicts herself as a maid / Whose Irish blood must send her...

In this dockyard community AHG , to her great but pleasant surprise, found a small society of [twenty-eight] black & coloured people calling themselves Methodists . Their piety withstood the disadvantages of lacking a chapel...

She grew up in a nonconformist environment that encouraged reading and learning. Her religious faith was deeply influenced by the strong Evangelical Methodist beliefs of her mother.

LB was born into a wealthy and strict English Wesleyan family. She generally saw her parents only once a day, at prayers, and on Sunday for both Chapel and dinner. She later refused to be...

As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...

Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans (following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were...

Born into the English Dissenting middle class, she held a strong religious faith which was the guiding principle of her life.

The child of wealthy English Anglican family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an...

While EW 's younger cousins had thought her family home was an impossible environment for a young woman, it is unclear that she was unhappy and it is unlikely that she rebelled. Thus, although EW's...

She came from the middle class, from a family with a strong Methodist tradition. In later life she became a believer in spiritualism. Her nephew called her quintessentially English in background and personality.

During the 1920s, LMM and her husband fought against the proposed merging of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. In January 1925, the Leaksdale church, under the leadership of Macdonald, voted against union.