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Collection on British Wesleyan Conference Presidents
Collection on British Wesleyan Conference Presidents A Guide to the Collection Overview Creator: Bridwell Library Title: Collection on British Wesleyan Conference Presidents Inclusive Dates: 1773-1950 Bulk Dates: 1790-1900 Abstract: Bridwell Library’s collection on British Wesleyan Conference Presidents comprises three scrapbook albums containing printed likenesses, biographical sketches, autographs, correspondence, and other documents relating to every British Wesleyan Conference president who served between 1790 (John Wesley) and 1905 (Charles H. Kelly). The collection represents the convergence of British Victorian interests in Methodistica and scrapbooking. To the original scrapbooks Bishop Frederick DeLand Leete added materials by and about ten additional twentieth-century Conference presidents. Accession No: BridArch 302.26 Extent: 6 boxes (3.5 linear feet) Language: Material is in English Repository Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University Historical Note Conference Presidents in the Methodist Church of Great Britain serve one year terms in which they travel throughout Great Britain preaching and representing the denomination. Conference Presidents may serve non-consecutive additional terms. John Wesley personally presided over 1 Bridwell Library * Perkins School of Theology * Southern Methodist University annual conferences of ordained ministers and lay preachers serving in connection with the Methodist movement beginning in 1744. The office of President was instituted after Wesley’s death in 1791. Bridwell Library is the principal bibliographic resource at Southern Methodist University for the fields of theology and religious studies. Source: “The President and Vice-President,” Methodist Church of Great Britain website http://www.methodist.org.uk/who-we-are/structure/the-president-and-vice-president, accessed 07/23/2013 Scope and Contents of the Collection The engraved portraits, biographical notes, autographs, and letters in this collection represent every Conference president who served between 1790 and 1905. -
To View This Issue
><( c en >LLI .J en s:LLI z LLI .J en1- <( 0 c z <( .J LLI a. <( J: 0 z .Jen 0 11: PROCEitDI~GS. ROSLIN CHAFEL AND CASTLE IN WESLEY's DAY. Engraved January 9th, 1789. See also Antifuiti~s of Scotland by Francis Grose, F.A.S. 1797· (T.E.B's collection) Record in Weslfy's Journal: 1780, Mtt!J. A gentleman took me to see Roslin Castle, eight miles from Edinburgh. It is now all in ruins ; only a small dwelling-house is built on one part of it. The situation of it is exceeding fine, on the side of a steep mountain, hanging over a river, from which another mountain rises, equally steep, and clothed with wood. At a little distance is the chapel, which is in perfect preservation, both within and without. I should never have thought it had belonged to any one less than a sovereign prince ! the inside being far more elegantly wrought with variety of Scripture histories in stone-work, than I believe can be found again in Scotland ; perhaps not in all England. EARLY JV\ETHODISJV\ IN DALKEITH, SCOTLAND. In the January issue of the Methodist Mttgazine there appeared an article by the Rev. John Telford, B.A., entitled "An Old Preacher's Diary." The article described the experiences of Zechariah Y ewdall (who laboured as a Methodist preacher from 1779 to 183o), as recorded in the two volumes of his manuscript diary. The courtesy of the Connexional Editor has enabled me to peruse these interesting volumes at leisure. They have been of interest :to me chiefly on account of the record they give of Yewdall's labours in Scotland, and particularly in connection with the origin of the Society at Dalkeith. -
Memoirs and Select Remains of the Rev. Thomas Rawson Taylor
FROM THE LIBRARY OF REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON, D. D BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO THE LIBRARY OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY SfcJ *— . Iff. ^ c t-t^&y /t&4^<z^>£- *V: ' * „ SEP 15 mi M E M I riAfc^ SELECT REMAINS REV. THOMAS RAWSON TAYLOR, Late Classical Tutor at Airedale College, Yorksh\ BY W. S. MATTHEWS LONDON ,EY AND DAVIS. HAMILTON. AD M \XD SJMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO. MDCCCXXXVI. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/selectremOOmatt PREFACE. By those who had the privilege of a personal acquaint- ance with the lamented subject of the following Memoir, it was deemed in no small measure desirable that some record should be preserved of his history and character. To do honour to the sainted dead was less the object of this wish, than to afford a fine example to the living of early and entire devotedness to the cause of God, as it was exemplified during a brief but beautiful life of cheerful piety. It was considered (in defence of publi- cation,) that the just sentiment of Johnson, as to the materiel for effective biography, is now pretty generally recognized—that it adds nothing to the force and prac- tical value of a book that the subject should be greatly lifted out of the ordinary sphere within which men think, and feel, and act : —on the contrary, that what appeals most closely to men's bosoms by way of example and excitement—showing that the points of highest moral, social, and Christian excellence are yet attainable points—will be best calculated to secure the object sought to be obtained. -
Methodist Memorial A5 V2.Qxp:Methodist Memorial A5.Q5 6 12 2008 00:56 Page 1
Methodist Memorial A5 v2.qxp:Methodist Memorial A5.Q5 6 12 2008 00:56 Page 1 METHODIST MEMORIAL by Charles Atmore Methodist Memorial A5 v2.qxp:Methodist Memorial A5.Q5 6 12 2008 00:56 Page 3 METHODIST MEMORIAL BY CHARLES ATMORE QUINTA PRESS Weston Rhyn 2008 Methodist Memorial A5 v2.qxp:Methodist Memorial A5.Q5 6 12 2008 00:56 Page 4 Quinta Press Meadow View, Weston Rhyn, Oswestry, Shropshire, England, SY10 7RN Methodist Memorial first published in 1871 by Hamilton, Adams & Co. The layout of this edition © Quinta Press 2008 Set in 10pt on 12 pt Bembo Std ISBN 1 897856 xx x Methodist Memorial A5 v2.qxp:Methodist Memorial A5.Q5 6 12 2008 00:56 Page 5 THE METHODIST MEMORIAL BEING AN IMPARTIAL SKETCH OF THE LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF THE PREACHERS WHO HAVE DEPARTED THIS LIFE SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WORK OF GOD AMONG THE PEOPLE CALLED METHODISTS LATE IN CONNECTION WITH THE REV. JOHN WESLEY, DECEASED. Drawn from the most authentic Sources, and disposed in Alphabetical Order. Introduced with a brief Account of the STATE OF RELIGION FROM THE EARLIEST AGES, AND A CONCISE HISTORY OF METHODISM. By CHARLES ATMORE. WITH AN ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, And Notices of some of his Contemporaries. Whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever. ST PAUL. According to this time, it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought? MOSES. 5 Methodist Memorial A5 v2.qxp:Methodist Memorial A5.Q5 6 12 2008 00:56 Page 6 LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO., 32, PATERNOSTER ROW. -
Proceedings Wesley Historical Society
Proceedings OF THE Wesley Historical Society Editor: REv. WESLEY F. SWIFT. Volume XXXII December 1959 EDITORIAL HIS issue of the Proceedings makes a late appearance, for which we tender apologies to our readers. We hope that the T size and quality of its contents will compensate for the delay, which has been caused by various technical difficulties beyond our control. Members should be warned, however, that the exceptional bulk of this issue must not be regarded as a precedent. Our finan ces limit us to twenty-four pages, but those who are particularly ob servant will have noticed that so far in this volume we are eight pages short of our maximum. The current issue of thirty· two pages is merely a " catching up" on the arrears! Only a large increase in our membership would enable us to achieve the desired result of a " bumper" number every quarter. * * * The long-promised Index to the first thirty volumes of the Proceed ings is now at the proof stage, and we hope that before long we shall be able to give details of its publication. This indispensable" tool for the job" is the work of Mr. John A. Vickers of Ipswich, who (with the voluntary assistance of many of our members in the work of checking the entries) has devoted untold leisure hours to its compil ation as a labour of love. Students of Methodist history will discover by its use (as we already have ourselves) that the earlier volumes of the Proceedings are rich in suggesti ve material for research, as well as containing thousands of interesting details and out-of-the-way facts not to be found elsewhere. -
The Separation of the Methodists from the Church of England a Historical Fact
mm J (f^atnell UninetBttg 9Itbtacg THE GIFT OF MS^^*^**-^ ""'""^"^ '""'^^^ BX8276 .T89 " ^^''^iMiiiffliiSliiiftifiiWiS"'"'''*'* f™"! 'He Ch Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029470683 iiilliliiiliiilimililii The Separation of the Methodists from the ^ ^ Church of England 1^ ^ BY ROBERT LEONARD TUCKER, M.A. ^1 ^ ^ ^ NEW YORK 1918 ^iiiiiiilillMPiliiiliiiiilililliliililBliii^ The Separation of the Methodists from the Church of England BY ROBERT LEONARD TUCKER, M.A. SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Printed for the Author by THE METHODIST BOOK CONCERN New York City igi8 A^io^^is Copyright, 1918, by R. L. TUCKER All Rights Reserved TO MY WIFE GRACE GREEN TUCKER MY MOTHER FANNIE ALLUM TUCKER MY FATHER JOHN TUCKER THREE METHODISTS WHOSE LIVES SHOW THAT NOBLEST SPIRIT OF TRUE RELIGION FAR MORE CLEARLY THAN ALL MY WORDS, THIS TASK IS DEDICATED CONTENTS PAGE Preface 7 Introduction 9 Chapter I. The Methodist View of Eighteenth Century Life 11 I. Methodist Dissatisfaction with the Customs and Religion of the Times 11 II. Methodist View of the Church and the Clergy 12 Chapter II. The Churchman's View of Eighteenth Century Life. 17 I. Enthusiasm 17 II. The Church View of Enthusiasm 23 III. Methodist Attempts to Check Extreme Enthusiasm 30 IV. Methodism and Mysticism 34 Chapter III. Methodist Doctrine 37 I. Original Sin 37 II. Justification by Faith 39 in. The New Birth 42 IV. -
258 Shady Grove, GARDEN, and WILDERNESS
Methodist History, 51:4 (July 2013) SHADY GROVE, GARDEN, AND WILDERNESS: METHODISM AND THE AMERICAN WOODLAND RUSSELL E. RICHEY In his journal for Sunday, September 23, 1759, John Wesley, after preach- ing to a “vast multitude of the immense congregation in Moorfields and not- ing the “expediency of field preaching” commented “By repeated observa- tions I find I can command thrice the number in the open air [that] I can under a roof. And who can say the time for field preaching is over while (1) greater numbers than ever attend, (2) the converting as well as convincing power of God is eminently present with them?”1 The preachers commissioned by Wesley to take his movement to the new world doubtless came intent on honoring his field-preaching impera- tive. They soon discovered that only a fool would stand in a field under the blistering American summer sun or expect a congregation to endure such folly. Instead, the preachers gathered congregations in the shade of a state- ly forest or under an oak’s spreading branches. Relishing these natural cathedrals, the preachers also found the woods a place for solitude, prayer, and devotions. And as they took Methodism west, they found forests to be wilderness, full of dangers, some life-threatening. All three experiences of the American woodland proved important. So Methodists sacralized Amer- ican woodlands as cathedral, as confessional, as challenge—as shady grove (nature’s cathedral), as garden (a Gethsemane where temptations might be fought and spiritual solace sought), and as wilderness (a challenge through and into which the Methodist ‘gospel’ must be taken). -
“Redeeming the Time”: the Making of Early American Methodism
“REDEEMING THE TIME”: THE MAKING OF EARLY AMERICAN METHODISM By Michael Kenneth Turner Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Religion May, 2009 Nashville, Tennessee Approved: Dean James Hudnut-Beumler Professor M. Douglas Meeks Professor James P. Byrd Professor Dennis C. Dickerson Copyright ©2009 by Michael Kenneth Turner Al Rights Reserved To my ever-supportive and loving wife, Stephanie and To my father, Thomas, who helped every step of the way iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The idea for this dissertation took nascent form during my time as a participant in the 2006 Wesley Studies Seminar. I am very grateful for the fellowship from Duke Divinity School that enabled me to participate in the seminar and do early research on the dissertation. In particular, I would like to thank that group’s helpful leader and organizer, Dr. Richard Heitzenrater. I am also appreciative of the conversations, suggestions, and encouragement I received from Dean Laceye Warner (Duke Divinity School), Dr. Jason Vickers (United Theological Seminary), Dr. Sarah Lancaster (Methodist Theological School of Ohio), Dr. Rex Matthews (Candler School of Theology), and Dr. Steve McCormick (Nazarene Theological Seminary) both during and following the seminar. I am also thankful for all my colleagues and mentors at Vanderbilt University. First and foremost, I would like to thank the members of my dissertation committee. Dean James Hudnut-Beumler, my chair, is among the most knowledgeable students of American Religious History that I know. I am very grateful for his guidance through the program. -
Early Methodism in Aberdeen
The Story Of Early Methodism in Aberdeen by ERNEST WILKINSON, M.A. Early Methodism in Aberdeen Foreword to this edition This copy of the original 1973 booklet was typed to a computer file in 2002. I have tried to keep as far as possible to the original formatting and layout. There are a few editorial additions, but these are signified by being written in italics. The original booklet was written by Ernest Wilkinson, who was one of the stewards at the Aberdeen Methodist Church. I think he was an accountant by profession, and the booklet was written to celebrate the centenary of the Crown Terrace building in 1973. Another addition on the back page of this electronic document to the original booklet is a table listing all the ministers appointed to the Aberdeen church from its beginnings. This is a copy of the hand-written document kept in the vestry, and updated every time there is a new minister appointed. A copy of this booklet was handed to me recently from someone unconnected with the present Methodist Church; I don’t know from where she got it. Howard Marshall knew Ernest Wilkinson, though I didn’t. He was apparently a Tax Inspector. I thought it sufficiently interesting to type it out so that others could read it, and let Mr. Wilkinson’s account survive a few more years. This booklet was produced to mark the centenary of Crown Terrace Methodist Church in 1973. This reprint is done at a time when the sanctuary area is being remodelled, the pews and pipe organ removed, and the floor levelled. -
Ill ..I Tn Ill ~ PROCEEDINGS
> Ill ..I tn Ill ~ PROCEEDINGS. 1"\RS. fLETCHER OF /"\ADELEY AND THE OLD TYTHE BARN. The Rev. William Tranter, who died in 1879 at the age of one hundred and one years, stated in 1837, that the Madeley Vicarage Kitchen becoming too small for the Methodist meetings a barn on the premises was neatly fitted up for a preaching room. In this place the Methodist travelling preachers and the curate of the parish regularly preached. Here also Mrs. Fletcher, after the death of her husband, held her meetings for expositions of the Scriptures, religious experience, and prayer. On Sundays the people from a distance received hospitalities of which interesting accounts are given by Mr. Tranter. "On the ringing of a bell at one o'clock, all assembled for the afternoon at Mrs. Fletcher's meeting, when she often read the life of some eminently holy man, and commented on it. Then they adjourned to the church for the afternoon service and sermon." Joseph Entwistle (President, 1812) records in his Journal (May 18,) 1817, " On Monday afternoon we went to Madeley, the parish of the venerable Fletcher. At seven I preached in the Tythe Barn, adjoining to the vicarage, which was furnished with benches and a desk, with a gallery at one end. , . The Tythe-barn seems to have been built two hundred years; it is open to the roof, thatched with straw. and all the windows except one are made of oiled paper. My soul was filled with a sense of the divine presence, and the recollection of the blessed couple (though I never saw their faces) helped me while I spoke . -
The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury, Vol
WESLEYAN HERITAGE LIBRARY Reference THE JOURNAL AND LETTERS OF FRANCIS ASBURY VOL. III “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord” Heb 12:14 Spreading Scriptural Holiness to the World © 1998 Wesleyan Heritage Publications The Journal and Letters of FRANCIS ASBURY EDITORIAL BOARD Elmer T. Clark J. Manning Potts Jacob S. Payton Illustrator Erie Prior FRANCIS ASBURY This original painting is in the World Methodist Building at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, U.S.A. It has been attested as contemporary by the experts of the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery at Washington. It was probably, but not certainly, painted from life by John Paradise at New York in 1812. It was widely copied, and there are similar portraits in London, Philadelphia, and Madison, New Jersey. Frontispiece The Journal and Letters of FRANCIS ASBURY In Three Volumes VOLUME III The Letters ELMER T. CLARK Editor-in-Chief J. MANNING POTTS JACOB S. PAYTON Published Jointly By EPWORTH PRESS ABINGDON PRESS London Nashville FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1958 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY HAZELL WATSON AND VINEY LTD AYLESBURY AND SLOUGH EDITORIAL STAFF EDITORS ELMER T. CLARK, A.B., M.A., B.D., S.T.D., Litt.D., LL.D. Secretary of the World Methodist Council; Secretary of the International Methodist Historical Society; Executive Secretary of the American Association of Methodist Historical Societies; Author of The Warm Heart of Wesley, An Album of Methodist History, etc.; Editor of What Happened at Aldersgate, etc. J. MANNING POTTS, A.B., M.A., Th.M., D.D. -
Pdf\Preparatory\Kingswood
Methodist History 41.1 (2002): 342–70 (This .pdf version reproduces pagination of printed form) Kingswood School Library Holdings (ca. 1775) Randy L. Maddox In 1768 a group of students sympathetic to Methodism were expelled from Oxford University. One response of John Wesley to this expulsion was to revive the “academical” course of study at Kingswood School as an alternative for university education.1 Recognizing that the current library holdings at Kingswood were not adequate for supporting this course, Wesley began purchasing and sending appropriate books as he could find them. To guide his choices, he wrote to Joseph Benson, the current headmaster, asking for a list of the books in the collection.2 If Benson prepared a list, it does not survive. But fortunately for both Wesley scholars and historians more broadly a later manuscript catalogue of the Kingswood library is still present in the school’s archives.3 This catalogue was prepared around the year 1775 by Cornelius Bayley, who served as a tutor at Kingswood from 1773–83.4 It has 325 numbered listings (though he skips number 77), and then 6 more unnumbered items added at the end. Several of the items are duplicates, one is listed as “nameless” [285], and one simply as “a Dutch book” [321]. The result is a list of about 300 separate titles. Bayley typically lists only a short title or the author’s last name and a short title. For example, his listing for the first item in the list below is “Adams on globes.” Given this sparse identification, it is not surprising that the catalogue has not been drawn on much by Wesley scholars.