As the essence of Methodism is the resistance of temptation, I intend to operate within a framework of some considerable restraint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Media's Role in Society: A Statesman's View] Reference

If Methodism is Christianity in earnest, then to be devoted to Methodism is to be consecrated to Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History] Reference

For some judicious remarks on the general subject, see Buckley, "Methodism," pp. 217-224.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Christianity] Reference

"Methodism," says Bishop McTyeire, "recognizes but two orders in the ministry -- the deacon and presbyter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History] Reference

Methodism at that time was in a struggling condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

At this time Methodism had spread throughout the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference

Even John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, played cards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference

The Class-meeting is one of the best institutions in Methodism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference

Methodism was not in favor among the early settlers in Cleveland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference

So we find in the very inception of Methodism in the United States the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

Methodism began in a college and has been a great patron of education.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

Hippocrates, and Methodism was marred by its insufficiency and sophistry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference

It was the day of small things for Methodism in the capital of Upper Canada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

Bangs ', and Playter's references to border Methodism at the period described.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

Centenary of Methodism, which had for years been anticipated with great interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference

Methodism in Baltimore, was the first native Methodist preacher on the continent.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

Mr. Secomb, the father of Methodism in Minneapolis, was going to St. Paul to preach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

Methodism has created new institutions and coined new words to express the object of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference

In every period of Methodism the lovefeast has been a precious and popular means of grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference

Then he threw down the gauntlet to established Methodism, daring to speak in Baltimore while the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference

Never were greater efforts made by Methodism for the evangelisation of the masses in Great Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference

If John Wesley had not been such an orderly boy, he never could have been the founder of Methodism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

French exiles, Methodism, with its almost entire absence of dogma, has had great success in the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

This method is followed with each denomination, separately, with which Methodism has competitive relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Church Cooperation in Community Life] Reference

The early history of Methodism has suffered by the dropping out of many striking illustrations of her power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference

Methodici attempted to create a new sect by adding to, or subtracting a little from, the tenets of Methodism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference

Although more or less independent of the mother Conference, they still retain the characteristics of Methodism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference

It contains an introduction by Bishop L.J. Coppin, a foreword entitled "One Hundred Years of African Methodism,".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

My husband's job doesn't mean I can discourse coherently on the finer detail of what is different about Methodism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good to meet you … Maureen Fenn] Reference

British Methodism has now missions in almost every quarter of the globe -- in Asia, in Africa, on the Continent of Europe, in the Western.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference