See also:ALEXANDER See also:KILHAM (1762-1798)
, See also:English Methodist, was See also:born at Epworth, See also:Lincolnshire, on the loth of See also:July 1762
.
He was admitted by See also:John See also:Wesley in 1785 into the See also:regular itinerant See also:ministry
.
He became the See also:leader and spokesman of the democratic party in the Connexion which claimed for the laity the See also:free See also:election of class-leaders and stewards, and equal See also:representation with ministers at See also:Conference
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They also contended that the ministry should possess no See also:official authority or See also:pastoral See also:prerogative, but should merely carry into effect the decisions of majorities in the different meetings
.
See also:Kilham further advocated the See also:complete separation of the Methodists from the-See also:Anglican 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
.
In the violent controversy that ensued he
wrote many See also:pamphlets, often See also:anonymous, and frequently not in the best of See also:taste
.
For this he was arraigned before the Conference of 1796 and expelled, and he then founded the Methodist New Connexion (1798, merged since 1906 in the See also:United Methodist Church)
.
He died in 1798, and the success of the 'church he founded is a See also:tribute to his See also:personality and to the principles for which he strove
.
Kilham's wife (Hannah Spurr, 1774—1832), whom he married only a few months before his See also:death, became a Quaker, and worked as a missionary in the See also:Gambia and at Sierra Leone; she reduced to See also:writing several See also:West See also:African vernaculars
.
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