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CHARLES WESLEY

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Alice Yun Chai, Class of 1994 Nancie Peacocke Fadeley, Class of 1992 Ralph H. Jones, Class of 1992 Pamela Baker Lineberger, Class of 1994 Michael G. Nickerson, Class of 1994 Kenneth E. Rowe, Class of 1992

Cover: Charles Wesley (1707-1788), poet and hymn writer of the Methodist movement. This issue commemorates the founding of The Charles Wesley Society. The papers published in this volume were presented at the Founding Meeting of the Society, October 19-21, 1990.

METHODIST HISTORY (ISSN 0026-1238) is published quarterly for $12.00 per year by the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church, 36 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940. Printed in the U.S.A. Back issues are available.

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VOLUME XXIX JULY 1991 NUMBER 4

CONTENTS

Contributors ...... 198

A Woman Responds to Charles Wesley by Wilma J. Quantrille ...... 199

The Wesley Mantle O'er Bland Tucker Cast by Raymond F. Glover...... 213

Charles Wesley's Shorthand by Oliver A. Becker/egge...... 225

A Poet in Love-The Courtship of Charles Wesley, 1747-1749 by Frank Baker...... 23 5

An Hitherto "Unpublished Letter" of Charles Wesley by Frederick E. Afaser ...... 248

The Charles Wesley Society by S T Kinzbrough, Jr...... 251

Index to Volume XXIX...... 263

Copyright: 1991, General Commission on Archives and History,. The United Methodist Church Methodist History is included in Religion Index One: Periodicals, Religious and Theological Abstracts, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life

Manuscripts submitted for publication and all other correspondence should be addressed to Editor, METHODIST HISTORY, P. 0. Box 127, Madison, NJ 07940. CONTRIBUTORS

WILMA J. QUANTRILL£ is pastor of the United Methodist Church, Tenafly, NJ, and is a clergy member of the Northern New Jersey Annual Conference. She received her Ph.D. from Drew University. Her disserta­ tion was entitled "The Triune God in the Hymns of Charles Wesley."

RAYMOND F. GLOVER writes extensively and conducts workshops on hymnal revisions. He was editor for The Hymnal 1982, the hymnal of the Episcopal Church and was general editor of its companion volume. He holds a Master of Sacred Music degree from Union Theological Seminary, NY.

OLIVER A. BECKERLEGGE is a British Methodist pastor and expert hymnologist. He was involved in the preparation of Hymns and Psalms, the new hymnal of The Methodist Church in Great Britain. He is also co-editor of Volume 7 of The Works of John Wesley, and The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley.

FRA.. NK BAKER is Professor Emeritus of English Church History at The Divinity School of Duke University. He is recognized as an outstanding historian and theologian of the Wesleys and Methodism and author of numerous books and articles on John and Charles Wesley including Representative Verse of Charles Wesley and Charles Wesley as Revealed by His Letters. Dr. Baker has also been editor of The Works of John Wesley.

FREDERICK E. MASER is a retired clergy member of the Eastern Penn­ sylvania Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. He has published a large number of books and articles on the history of Methodism and the Wesleys. His most recent book is The Story of John Wesley's Sisters, or Seven Sisters in Search of Love.

S T KIMBROUGH, JR. is President of the Charles Wesley Society. He is internationally known as a scholar and musician and has devoted re­ cent years to the study of Charles Wesley. He is co-editor of The Un­ published Poetry of Charles Wesley (3 volumes), published by Kingswood Books (Abingdon Press), author of Lost in Wonder (a study of Wesley hymns), and editor of Charles Wesley, Poet and Theologian.

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