[CTrent1564]

Mrs. Don-o:

Not Methodist here, but I seem to remember that both of the Wesley Brothers were Anglicans who launched reform movements within the Anglican Tradition, neither of them I think ever left the church of England, but after they passed on, some of their followers broke away and Methodism became a separate community apart from Anglicanism.

[MacNaughton]

7 Not Methodist here, but I seem to remember that both of the Wesley Brothers were Anglicans who launched reform movements within the Anglican Tradition, neither of them I think ever left the church of England, but after they passed on, some of their followers broke away and Methodism became a separate community apart from Anglicanism.

Former Episcopagan here who fled TEC in 2003 after 48 years. CTrent1564 is correct regarding the history of the Wesley brothers.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for this info. (Please excuse all my typos. Just call me Fallible Fingers...)

I like the Methodist hymns from the 1866 edition of Christian Harmony, which is what our shape note group sings from. The Wesleys were clearly very gifted men.