See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

BIBLE CHRISTIANS  , one of the denominations now merged in the See also:

• UNITED

United Methodist See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church (see UNITED METHODISTS), so called because its See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early preachers appealed solely to the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible in See also:

• CONFIRMATION (Lat. confirmatio, from confirmare, to establish, make firm)

confirmation of their doctrines . The See also:

• DENOMINATION (Lat. denominare, to give a specific name to)

denomination arose in the agricultural districts and fishing villages of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north See also:

• CORNWALL

Cornwall and See also:

• DEVON, EARLS OF

Devon; a See also:

• DISTRICT

district only slightly influenced by See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• WESLEY (FAMILY)
• WESLEY, JOHN (1703-1791)
• WESLEY, SAMUEL (1766-1837)
• WESLEY, SAMUEL SEBASTIAN (1810–1876)

Wesley and the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original Methodist See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement . The founder was See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William O'See also:

• BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS (186o– )

Bryan (afterwards See also:

• BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (1794-1878)

Bryant), a Methodist See also:

• LAY

lay preacher of Luxillian, Cornwall . Finding that the See also:

• PEOPLE

people had no evangelical See also:

• PREACHING (Fr. preecher, from Lat. praedicare, to proclaim)

preaching he began an itinerary to See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply the need . The coastmen were See also:

• EXPERT (Lat. expertus, from experiri, to try)

expert smugglers and wreckers, the agriculturists were ignorant and drunken, the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy were slothful, in many cases intemperate, and largely given to See also:

• FOX
• FOX, C
• FOX, CHARLES JAMES (1749-1806)
• FOX, EDWARD (c. 1496-1538)
• FOX, GEORGE (1624-1691)
• FOX, RICHARD (c. 1448-1528)
• FOX, ROBERT WERE (1789—1877)
• FOX, SIR STEPHEN (1627–1716)
• FOX, SIR WILLIAM (1812-1893)

fox-See also:

• HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting . Only in a parish or two was there any approach to religious See also:

• MINISTRY

ministry . O'Bryan commenced his labours in north Devon, and in 1815 a small society was formed at See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake See also:

• FARM

Farm, Shebbear . The movement had the seeds of See also:

• GREAT

great vitality in it . In 1819 the first See also:

• CONFERENCE

conference was held at See also:

• LAUNCESTON

Launceston . There were See also:

• PRESENT

present besides O'Bryan one accepted See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister—See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• THORNE

Thorne—fourteen ministers on trial and fifteen See also:

• WOMEN

women preachers, a class that was always conspicuous in the denomination . At that conference the See also:

• WORK

work had spread from See also:

• RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

Ring's Ash in Devon to Morrah, a lonely and desolate parish in See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west Cornwall . In 1820–1821 See also:

• KENT
• KENT, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• KENT, JAMES (1763-1847)
• KENT, WILLIAM (1685-1748)

Kent, See also:

• NORTHUMBERLAND
• NORTHUMBERLAND, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• NORTHUMBERLAND, JOHN DUDLEY, VISCOUNT LISLE, EARL OF WARWICK
• NORTHUMBERLAND, JOHN NEVILLE, EARL OF (c. 1430-1471)

Northumberland, the Scilly and See also:

• NORMAN
• NORMAN, SIR HENRY WYLIE (1826-1904)

Norman (i .e .

Channel) Islands appeared on the See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of stations . Then came a serious break . In 1829 there was a severance between the larger See also:

• PART

part of the new See also:

• BODY

body and O'Bryan, who had claimed to be perpetual See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president, and to have all See also:

• PROPERTY

property vested in him personally . He tried to establish a See also:

• SEPARATE

separate conference, but failed, and in 1836 there was a re-See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union . O'Bryan See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England for See also:

• AMERICA

America, where he remained for the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

• LIFE

life, and his contingent (numbering 565 members and 4 ministers) returned to the original conference . The growth continued . In 1831 agents were sent to See also:

• CANADA

Canada and See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince See also:

• EDWARD

Edward's See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, in 185o to See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AUSTRALIA

Australia, in 1855 to See also:

• VICTORIA
• VICTORIA (or VITTORIA), TOMMASSO LUDOVICO DA (C. I540-C. 1613)
• VICTORIA [ALEXANDRINA VICTORIA]

Victoria, in 1866 to See also:

• QUEENSLAND

Queensland, in 1877 to New See also:

• ZEALAND (also SEALAND Or SEELAND; Danish Sjaelland)

Zealand and in 1885 to See also:

• CHINA

China, so that the original O'Bryan tradition of fervid evangelism was amply maintained . On O'Bryan's departure, James Thorne, the first fully recognized minister, at whose See also:

• FATHER

father's farm the connexion started, became its See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader . Although reared as an See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary farm lad, he proved to be a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of singular devotion and spiritual See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius . He laid the See also:

• FOUNDATIONS

foundations broadly in evangelism, See also:

• FINANCE

finance, See also:

• TEMPERANCE

temperance and See also:

• EDUCATION

education, See also:

• FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding in the latter connexion a See also:

• MIDDLE

middle-class school at Shebbear, at which generations of ministers' sons and numerous students for the ministry have been educated . James Thorne was five times president of the conference and fifteen times secretary . He died in 1872 .

In this See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period there was much persecution . Landowners refused sites, and in the Isle of See also:

• WIGHT, ISLE OF

Wight the people worshipped for many months in a See also:

• QUARRY

quarry . The preachers were sometimes imprisoned and many times assaulted . The old Methodist body even excommunicated persons for attending " Bryanite " meetings . Partly co-operative with James Thorne and at his See also:

• DEATH

death independently, the Church was favoured with the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick William See also:

• BOURNE (southern form of burn, Teutonic born, bran, burna)
• BOURNE, or BOURN
• BOURNE, VINCENT (1695-1747)

Bourne . He was a minister for fifty-five years, and served the Bible Christians as editor, missionary treasurer, See also:

• BOOK

book steward and three times president of conference . With him will always be associated the name of Billy See also:

• BRAY
• BRAY, SIR REGINALD (d. 1503)
• BRAY, THOMAS (1656-1730)

Bray, an illiterate but inimitable Cornish evangelist, a memoir of whom, written by Bourne,exerted a great influence in the religious life of the de-nomination . In See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine the Bible Christians did not differ from the other Methodists . In constitution they differed only slightly . There was an See also:

• ANNUAL

annual conference with full legislative See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, and ability to hold and dispose of property, composed of an equal number of lay and ministerial representatives See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting together . The See also:

• LOCAL

local churches were grouped into circuits governed representatively by a quarterly meeting . The quarterly or See also:

• CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit meetings were in turn organized into twelve districts, eleven in England and one in China .

In 1906 the See also:

• STATISTICS

statistics showed 218 ministers, 32,549 members and 652 chapels, with 47,301 scholars in See also:

• SUNDAY

Sunday-See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools . These figures include nearly 1400 full and probationary members in the China See also:

• MISSION

mission, the first-fruits of two years' labour amongst the Miao tribe . In the various colonial Methodist unions the Bible Christians have contributed a See also:

• TOTAL

total of 159 ministers, 14,925 members and 66o chapels . The community supported a See also:

• REGULAR

regular ministry from the beginning . Its members have been keen evangelists, trusting largely to " revivals " for their success, staunch Radicals in politics and total abstainers to a man . Both ministers and people entered with See also:

• INTEREST

interest and sympathy into the See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme for union between them-selves, the Methodist New Connexion and the United Methodist See also:

• FREE

Free Church, which was successfully accomplished in 1906 .