Chapter XI

EPWORTH AND CHRISTIAN SOCIETIES—1696–1699.

Isle of Axholme, 203

Epworth Parsonage, 203

Mehetabel Wesley, 204

Character and Death of Mrs Dunton, 207

Timothy Rogers, 208

Wesley writes Mrs Dunton’s Epitaph, 209

Dunton quarrels with Wesley, 210

Wesley’s Sermon on Reformation of Manners, 213

Society for the Reformation of Manners, 213

Dr Anthony Horneck and Mr Smithies, 213

William Beveridge, 214

Young Men Converted, 214

Form Themselves into Societies, 215

Religious Societies give birth to Reformation 218
Societies,

Daniel Defoe on the Wickedness of the Age, 219

Wesley on do., 220

History of Society for Reformation of Manners, 221

History of Religious and of Methodist Societies, 224

Samuel Wesley’s hearty Approval of Religious 227
Societies,