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Title: Chapters from my life, with special reference to reunion
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Lunn,Henry Simpson, Sir, 1859-1939
Subjects: Lunn,Henry Simpson, Sir, 1859-1939 Lunn family Christian union
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Cassell and company, ltd.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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work in the following charac-teristic way. He said: Well, Lunn, I am going for aweeks rest. You must take charge until the Mission whichI shall hold on my return. You will take the WatchnightService on Friday. On Sunday you will preach in themorning at Brixton. (The church held about 1,200). Inthe afternoon you will conduct the Annual Covenant Serviceand administer the Sacrament. In the evening you willpreach at Brixton again. Every night during the week youwill give an address preparatory to the Mission. I am off.Good-bye, and I was launched into a position of almostoverwhelming responsibility. Thus began a friendship which lasted with increasingintimacy until we were separated by his early death in 1902. Hugh Price Hughes was probably the greatest influencein Methodism since the days of John Wesley. In many wayshe resembled Wesley. Both were great ecclesiastics, andboth possessed unusual gifts for organisation and discipline.They shared the keen desire that Methodism should be, not
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THE REV. HUGH AND MRS. PRICE HUGHES Hugh Price Hughes 49 a sect, but part of the Universal Church. Probably no onerealised as I did Hughess intense eagerness for union withthe Historic Church. Quite accidentally I met in a Dublinmaternity hospital a lady taking out a special course forMission work abroad, who had known Hughes intimately inhis college days twenty years before. She was greatlyinterested in the similarity of my views with those whichHughes (whom I had only once met) had expressed in herhome. She told me that Hughes was the author of a remark-able article in the Spectator of August 29, 1868, signed Oneof the Methodist Left—a fact which I believe no one else inMethodism knew. The article was written just at the timewhen Dr. Pusey had made overtures to the Wesleyans toreunite with the Church of England. Punch published afamous cartoon in which Maid Methodist was representedas going to Conference, and Dr. Pusey as asking her whereshe was going. The following lines were und

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