Wesleyan Methodist

American  

noun

1. a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.

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Etymology

Origin of Wesleyan Methodist

First recorded in 1790–1800

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Wesleyan Methodist

One Sunday morning in February, Kenneth P. Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, showed up with some fellow politicians to celebrate the 249th anniversary of the African Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2015

Humble Beginnings George Stanley McGovern was born on July 19, 1922, in a parsonage in Avon, S.D., a town of about 600 people where his father, Joseph, was the pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2012

The participants belonged to the 17-year-old Evangelical Theological Society, whose 750 members are divided about equally between mainstream Protestants and adherents of such sects as the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Primitive Wesleyan Methodist Home Missionary Society has for its object 'the propagation of the Gospel in Ireland', and employs fifty missionary agents and upwards of fifty circuit preachers.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various

Nevertheless it should be remembered that in the discussion and controversy which for years followed this event, Dr. Ryerson occupied a foremost place as the champion on the Wesleyan Methodist side.

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by J. George (John George) Hodgins

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