The Methodists are the largest religious body in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Englishwoman in America] Reference

They are mostly Methodists, that is Wesleyans, or Baptists.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858] Reference

The Methodists are a numerous and respectable body of people.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of New Brunswick] Reference

"Why, Auntie, the Methodists are a very nice denomination," I protested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922] Reference

The history of the slavery question among the Methodists was a typical one.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Christianity] Reference

I talked of preaching, and of the great success which those called Methodists have.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference

For many years, the Methodists were the only denomination having a place of worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Roanoke County] Reference

The Methodists were the first people that brought glad tidings to the coloured people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. To Which is Annexed the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of Our Lord 1793: With an Address to the People of Colour in the United States] Reference

They were called Methodists in derision of their skillful method in defending their doctrines.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apology for African Methodism] Reference

Nearly 10,000 people, many clearly identified as Methodists, have put it on the line and say NO. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stop the Bush Library: A Methodist minister says not at SMU] Reference

Those who had threatened to leave because Eli imbibed too freely were termed Methodists and back-biters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

The Methodists are the third largest religious denomination in America and a major force internationally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution News & Views] Reference

Not until then were the deep rooted prejudices against the people called Methodists removed from his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Missionary Pioneer, or A Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart, (Man of Colour,) Founder, under God of the Mission among the Wyandotts at Upper Sandusky, Ohio.] Reference

He often speaks of 'the people called Methodists,' but sometimes he uses the term without any qualification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Of Johnson]

Very soon after my school commenced for a four months term the Methodists concluded they would have a revival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

If Baptists are thinking of Methodists, that is one thing, but if they are thinking of Muslims, that is quite another.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Grace] Reference

"Why, the Methodists are a people that do nothing but pray," was her rejoinder; "they are praying all day and all night.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fletcher of Madeley] Reference

Account of the People called Methodists, has declared "to be merely prudential, not essential, not of divine institution.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada] Reference

The friends of Réveil, sometimes called Methodists, severed their connection with the Reformed Churches of France, and organized in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

The voice of Bradburn against oppression: "An address to the people called Methodists, concerning the criminality of encouraging slavery.".    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Clinton's Endorsement List Debatable] Reference

Protestantism, their churches are precisely such as Methodists or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference

T 'people called Methodists -- as mak's it narrow enough to prevent lost sheep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hallam Succession] Reference

They were nicknamed "Methodists," from their strictness of life in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outline of Universal History] Reference

About half the men belonged to pietistic Protestant churches (such as Methodists and Baptists) that severely frowned on drinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Witness the earlier Methodists, and later the Salvation Army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

And Methodists have waited a long time for that moment to arrive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soulful Matters] Reference

The genuinely hospitable homes of the early Methodists were peculiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference

Methodists, in allusion to some ancient physicians who were so termed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

"" And we Methodists, '' he adds wryly, "" know what's good for you. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soulful Matters] Reference

She also read Motive, a now defunct magazine for college-age Methodists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soulful Matters] Reference

Methodists sang the hymns of Charles Wesley and preached the social gospel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead End For The Mainline?] Reference

I know Methodists and Catholics, Baptists and Unitarians who worship their way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Susan Corso: To Mosque or Not to Mosque--Is That the Real Question?] Reference

A young man belonging to the Methodists of that city now enters into our narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference