Epworth League

[ ep-werth ]

noun

1. the Methodist youth organization, founded in 1889 to promote fellowship, worship, Christian service, and the study of the Scriptures.

Example Sentences

With the Christian Endeavor, the Epworth League, and kindred societies looking about for something to try their young strength and enthusiasm on, we may be here standing upon the threshold of something which shall bring us nearer to a universal brotherhood than all the consecrations and badges that have yet been invented.

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Only you won't call it that, of course; you will tactfully describe it as a literary society, or a social circle, or an Epworth League.

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From it sprang the ‘Lend a Hand’ and the ‘King’s Daughters,’ and a dozen such working societies, and indirectly the Epworth League and the Christian Endeavor.

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We have had some splendid C. E. meetings, the best ones being those when the Senior and Junior societies of the Frankfort Christian Church and the Epworth League of the Methodist Church united with us.

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One of John Sparkman's many extracurricular activities was membership in the Epworth League of Tuscaloosa's First Methodist Church.

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