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15 unusual facts about Methodism


1703 in poetry

June 28 (n.s.) – John Wesley (died 1791), cleric and Christian theologian who was the founder of Methodism, psalmist and hymnist

Alfred Dudoward

Alfred Dudoward (ca. 1850 - November 15, 1914) was an hereditary chief from the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, who was instrumental in establishing a Methodist mission in his community of Port Simpson (a.k.a. Fort Simpson, a.k.a. Lax Kw'alaams), B.C.

Blacklion

The afore-mentioned inn may have been the establishment which gave shelter and hospitality to the founder of Methodism, John Wesley In the 1770s, during one of his many tours through Ireland he recorded how bad weather forced him to stay the night at a local inn, whose proprietor was sympathetic to his message.

Flowers Island, Newfoundland and Labrador

In the beginning, all the inhabitants of Flowers Island were Church of England, until Methodism was introduced to them in 1874 and the Salvation Army in 1891.

Foreign relations of Tonga

The mass conversion of most Tongans to Christianity – and primarily to Wesleyan Methodism – resulted in strong religious ties to England as the source of most of the missionaries involved.

Frank Saldo

Born in Holloway in London, the son of George Frederick Woollaston (1828–1896), a shoe manufacturer, Methodist preacher and faith healer, and Adelaide Mary (née Green) (1849–1923), like his older brother Monte, Frank Saldo developed an interest in Physical Culture at a young age and with his brother travelled in the stage act of Eugen Sandow in the late 1890s.

Fredrick Kúmókụn Adédeji Haastrup

He is credited with using his Town Planning skills for improving the layout of the town which is today characterized by a grid like road formation and introducing Methodism to Ijéṣaland in 1896.

Frontier Times Museum

Converted to Methodism, Rodriguez in 1878 became a circuit-riding minister, having last served congregations in Poteet and Floresville.

Horace S. Carswell, Jr.

After graduation from North Side, Horace attended college at Texas A&M University for a year as a member of the class of 1938, and then began attending Texas Christian University (since four of his uncles were Methodist preachers) where he graduated in August 1939 with a bachelors degree in physical education.

James Smetham

Smetham was a devout Methodist, and after a mental breakdown in 1857, the second half of his life was marked by a growing religious mania and eventual insanity.

Letitia Dunbar-Harrison

She had met a Methodist Minister, Rev. Robert Crawford while in Castlebar and they married a few months after she started work in the Military Library and became known as Aileen Crawford.

Marshside, Merseyside

Marshside has surprisingly few pubs (compared with neighbouring Churchtown), possibly in part due to the strong tradition of Methodism in the former village.

Mount Tabor, New Jersey

Mount Tabor was founded as a Methodist camp meeting in what is now Parsippany-Troy Hills, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

The One on the Right Is on the Left

The punch line to the joke is that "the guy in the rear", is less easily labeled: he is a Methodist and he burned his driver's license (rather than his draft card), etc.

Walsall Wood F.C.

The club's original name was Walsall Wood Ebenezer Primitive Methodists, stemming from its affiliation with a local Methodist chapel.


1822 in Norway

Ole Peter Petersen, founder of Methodism in Norway and co-founder of Norwegian and Danish Methodism in the United States (d.1901)

Abner Lewis

Active in the Methodist church as a lay preacher, and a prominent member of the prohibition movement, in 1870 he was the Prohibition Party's nominee for Governor.

Aldersgate

Also on this street is the church of St. Botolph's-without-Aldersgate, and the site of the Moravian meeting room where John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, reaffirmed his faith on Wednesday 24 May 1738, which is marked by a plaque.

Aldersgate College

The school was named after a street in London where John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, had a pivotal spiritual experience.

Calow

Methodist minister the Rev'd Kathleen Richardson took as her title "Baroness Richardson of Calow", after the village, when she was created a life peer in 1998.

David Charles Davies

He was born at Aberystwyth, his father being a merchant and a pioneer of Welsh Methodism, and his mother a niece of Thomas Charles of Bala.

Elizabeth Benger

She later became known to John Aikin and his daughter Lucy, the poet and children's writer Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Sarah Wesley, the writer daughter of the prominent Methodist Charles Wesley, and the novelist and actress Elizabeth Inchbald.

English underground

We must remember the 'underground' of the ballad singer and the fairground which handed on traditions to the nineteenth century (to the music hall, or Dickens' circus folk or Hardy's pedlars and showmen); for in these ways the 'inarticulate masses of people conserve certain values - a spontaneity and capacity for enjoyment and mutual loyalties - despite the inhibiting pressures of magistrates, mill-owners, and Methodists.

Francis O. Belzer

It was the winter of 1910-11 that F.O. Belzer and C.C. Osborne met with a group of Irvington boys to organize Scout Troop 9, sponsored by the Irvington United Methodist Church.

Frank R. Stockton

Born in Philadelphia in the year 1834, Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister who discouraged him from a writing career.

Franz Hildebrandt

He began to study the theological roots of Methodism in the work of John Wesley, and developed a theological perspective on Wesley (and Methodism in general) as a development of sound Reformation theology.

Free Methodist Church in Canada

Methodism came to Canada through the influence of Paul and Barbara Heck.

Golden Isles of Georgia

General Oglethorpe’s secretary, Charles Wesley and his famous Anglican clergyman brother, John, considered by many the founder of the Methodist Church, trod these grounds.

Harald Rohlig

In 1953, he immigrated with his wife Ingeborg Lieverz Rohlig, a violinist, to Linden, Alabama, where he taught piano and organ, played the organ, and conducted choirs at the Methodist and Baptist churches.

Hugh Bourne

One notable achievement of this revival was the religious conversion of Burslem-born William Clowes (1780-1851), the other joint founder of Primitive Methodism.

Hugh Bourne (1772–1852) along with William Clowes was the joint founder of Primitive Methodism, the largest offshoot of Wesleyan Methodism and, in the mid nineteenth century, an influential Protestant Christian movement in its own right.

John Jones, Talysarn

John Jones, Talysarn (1 March 1796 - 16 August 1857), was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister, regarded as one of the greatest preachers in the history of Wales.

Leiden accumulator

The founder of Methodism, John Wesley, was a great believer of the treatment, which became so popular, that he eventually opened three clinics dedicated to it.

Lenora Methodist Episcopal Church

The Minnesota conference of Methodism was organized in 1845, well before Minnesota became a territory in 1849.

Mark Rutland

In Kumasi, he worked a great deal with a man named Brew Riverson, the President of the small Methodist training college in the city Wesley College and whom he had become acquainted with several years before at a rally he had held in Atlanta, Georgia.

North Settlement Methodist Church

North Settlement Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on County Route 10, east of the junction with County Route 32C in Ashland, New York, Greene County, New York.

Ole Peter Petersen

Washington Prairie Norwegian Methodist Church located outside Decorah, Iowa is considered the mother church of Norwegian-American Methodism.

Philander Smith

Among the early settlers at Oak Park, Illinois, Smith and wife Adeline provided financial assistance to Methodist missions in India, China, and Japan.

Philip Down

Upon moving to the United Kingdom, Down became an associate Methodist minister and part-time chaplain at Scunthorpe General Hospital until 1989, in which year he was ordained as a deacon and then a priest of the Church of England.

Pinelands Center at Mount Misery

The Pinelands Center at Mount Misery (more commonly known as Mount Misery) is a Methodist retreat center and campground in Browns Mills, New Jersey in the United States.

Radstock Museum

Religious life in the area is represented with exhibits related to John Wesley who founded Methodism and John Skinner who, as well as being rector of Camerton was also an archaeologist and antiquarian.

Richmond, Oregon

Buildings in Richmond included the school, a store, a Methodist Church, an Independent Order of Odd Fellows hall, and several homes, all later abandoned.

Sidney E. Cox

In 1908 he joined the Methodist church but soon converted to the Salvation Army, where he worked from the years 1909 until 1944, eventually becoming a Major.

Stephen Humbert

He was a lay leader in the Methodist church at Saint John, publishing a history of Methodism in New Brunswick, and compiled the first English language collection of tunes published in Canada, which included some of his own compositions.

Thomas H. Mudge

Thomas Hicks Mudge (1815–1862) was an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman, born at Orrington, Me., the nephew of Enoch Mudge.

West Settlement Methodist Church

West Settlement Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on West Settlement Road at the junction with Cleveland Road in Ashland, Greene County, New York.

Westminster College, Oxford

The college was founded in London in 1851 as a training institute for teachers for Methodist schools, but moved to Oxford in 1959.

Wigmore, Herefordshire

In 1870 - 1872 it was recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales that Wigmore village was a seat of petty-sessions and that it had a post office, a police station, two Methodist chapels and a national school.