The Countess of Huntingdons CHAPTER IX THE COUNTESS AND HER CONNEXION In the world of today we have become familiar with evangelistic enterprises which bear the name of their founder. A case in point is the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. There is precedent for this in the eighteenth century. Evangelical leaders tended to draw together those closely associated with them. Men such as John Wesley and Rowland Hill had linked with them a "Connexion" made up of men and women who had declared their willingness to support them in their work wholeheartedly and to take their directions from them. The...