Methodists

1. A Protestant denomination founded by the English clergyman John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in the eighteenth century. Methodists are generally flexible in doctrine and in church organization, and stress the social responsibility of Christians (see also Christian ). Next to the Baptists , Methodists are the most numerous group of Protestants in the United States.

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And in time, fair-minded and thoughtful Methodists will cry, “Enough!”

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"Moderate, education-oriented Turkish Methodists is my view of them," she wrote.

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That same week they came out here, in a truck they had borrowed, to get me to help them as I had the Methodists.

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Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Methodists have all joined hands in the defence of their common liberties.

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The Methodists have universities, as have the Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and others.

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My parents were Methodists, as were their ancestors on both sides.

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Of these, quite a number were from the Baptists and Methodists.

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