Methodist Church

She was already ageing when she had a conversion experience and joined a Christian sect, the Methodists or Moravians , when she happened to attend one of their services and heard the first prayers I...

Some years after this, one Christmas, attendance at a Methodist meeting at Date Hill in Antigua made a great impression on MP 's mind, and led my spirit to the Moravian church.

The Methodist Church had broken away from the Church of England in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean.

She wrote on the mining industry in Cornwall, on grain prices, on the Methodists and their missionary work with black people in Africa and the Caribbean, on relations between the classes, and on...

That same year CP published Reasons why the People called Quakers cannot so fully unite with the Methodists, in their Missions to the Negroes in the West Indian Islands and Africa, as freely to...

EPL began to be active in the Working Girls' Club of the MethodistWest London Mission .

EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction. Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...

In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle , Methodist secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon...

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.

The poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone...

Here CMC voices various complaints: of sufferings caused by the Dearness of Provisions, of the impossibility of women's earning a living, of the nation's wickedness, the decline of charity, the prevalence of atheists, and of...

Born into the English professional class, to a family with strong connections with the law, JCM became deeply religious. When the Methodist movement got going (still within the Church of England ) it attracted her strongly.

From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley 's fairly new religious group called the Methodists (then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

JCM continued occasionally to address short poems to her husband. One survives which she wrote to her two daughters, and two written to a baby grandson (one before and one after his death). After...

Roger Lonsdale in 1990 followed Falconer Madan in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley and the Methodists amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold suggested in 1996...