The history of Methodism . needed the salt ofapplied Christianity to save itfrom utter putrefaction. Shewas to take part in a great moralreformation, which was to changethe spirit of politics and preparethe way for the safe enfranchise-ment of the English democracy inthe succeeding century. Herfashionable friend Horace Wal-pole was soon to dub her Queen of the Methodists, and ofher Macaulay was afterward to write, more seriously, AtRome the Countess of Huntingdon would have a place in thecalendar as Saint Selina. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, was a daughter of theEarl of Ferrers, and was bor
The history of Methodism . needed the salt ofapplied Christianity to save itfrom utter putrefaction. Shewas to take part in a great moralreformation, which was to changethe spirit of politics and preparethe way for the safe enfranchise-ment of the English democracy inthe succeeding century. Herfashionable friend Horace Wal-pole was soon to dub her Queen of the Methodists, and ofher Macaulay was afterward to write, more seriously, AtRome the Countess of Huntingdon would have a place in thecalendar as Saint Selina. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, was a daughter of theEarl of Ferrers, and was born four years after Wesley,August 24, 1707. She was of royal lineage. In her twenty-first year she married the ninth Earl of Huntingdon, andlived at Donnington Park, the ancestral seat, in Leicester-shire. Thoughts of the reality and nearness of the unseenworld were awakened when she was nine years old by seeingthe funeral of a child of her own age. Her sister-in-law,Lady Margaret Hastings, was converted under the preaching. HORACE Earl of Orford. Lady Huntingdons Conversion 629 of Mr. Ingham, a friend of the Wesleys. One day she feold Lady Huntingdon, with a glowing face, Since I haveknown and believed on the Lord Jesus Christ for life andsalvation I have been as happy as an angel. A serious illness gave Lady Huntingdon time for had been generous to the poor, and anxious to do goodworks. This impulse became a living principle when shecast herself wholly upon Christ for salvation. The joy of a il
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