METHODISTS MERGE
NOW CONSTITUTED LARGEST FREE DENOMINATION IN BRITAIN LoncSon, Sept. 19. The Duke and Duchess of York will attend the historic meeting to be held at Albert Hall on September 20, consummating the reunion of the three Methodist churches after 20 years' negotiations. _ , . • , It is estimated that the combined membership of th'e Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and United Methodist Churches will make the Methodist body the largest Free Church denomination in Britain. It will comprise. Churches Sunday Schools e' nnn Ministers - *>000 Local preachers ...... ^„>900 M^mhers — ••• 1,250,000^ The Lord Mayor (Sir Maurice Je.nks) , gave a reception to 1500 Methodists in the Guildhall, maugurating a week's celebrations of the reunion. „ J Dr. Scott Lidgett, the first president of the United Church. said there were 10,000 Methodists already in London congregations and 20,00 u churches and chapels in ^ Britam alone, which would also participate m the celebrations which would bring the world's largest evangelical church of 50,000,000 members into bemg.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 September 1932, Page 5
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