Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England...
...undersigned, and 28,757 others, do petition the Bishops of the Church of England, that 24 of their number do send for and open Joanna Southcott's Box of Sealed Manuscripts, as we are of the opinion that anything purporting to be a Divine Revelation laid up for the world at this critical period should be examined by the Heads of the Church...
This document, a full-page advertisement in the London Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, was the latest manifestation of a religious eccentricity which has mildly amused the Church of England for 150 years. Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was a pious British servant woman who, like many another simple mind, came a cropper in the mysteries of the Book of Revelation...
...Southcott's, was opened, found to contain miscellaneous objects. This box, according to the Panacea Society, was spurious. The society is confident that eventually 24 bishops will gather around the real box, and miracles will then pop. But to the society's recent petition the Church of England's bishops made no reply...
Kneeling in a little chapel in Aldersgate Street, London, a moody Anglican clergyman felt his heart "strangely warmed" by a feeling that through Jesus Christ he had been saved. The warming of John Wesley, two centuries ago, gave Methodism to the Church of England, which was not impressed. Wesley remained an Anglican, but his movement grew outside the Church, flowered in America, where the first Methodist bishop was consecrated in 1784, and where Methodist circuit riders followed the frontiers as they spread westward...