The history of Methodism . h in Redruth Chapel to fourteen hundredpeople, said that she had a torrent of softening eloquencewhich occasioned a general weeping through the wholecongregation ; and, what was more astonishing, she was blind,and had been so for many years. The Rev. W. Warrener,the first missionary to the West Indies, was converted underthe preaching of another good woman, Miss Hurrell; andMiss J. E. Hellier, in the Methodist Recorder, 1895, mentionsthe names of Mrs. Holder, Mrs. E. Collett, Mrs. De Putron,and Mrs. Sarah Stevens, all of them ministers wives, whowere preachers. Under
The history of Methodism . h in Redruth Chapel to fourteen hundredpeople, said that she had a torrent of softening eloquencewhich occasioned a general weeping through the wholecongregation ; and, what was more astonishing, she was blind,and had been so for many years. The Rev. W. Warrener,the first missionary to the West Indies, was converted underthe preaching of another good woman, Miss Hurrell; andMiss J. E. Hellier, in the Methodist Recorder, 1895, mentionsthe names of Mrs. Holder, Mrs. E. Collett, Mrs. De Putron,and Mrs. Sarah Stevens, all of them ministers wives, whowere preachers. Under the ministry of the last-named thelate Rev. John Lotnas realized the sense of sins must notice later Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Evans, the Dinah The Angel of the Prisons 919 Morris. of George Eliots Adam Bedc, whose work extendedinto the nineteenth century. We find the Methodist women at work in the Peters visited six condemned felons in Newgate in1748, and led them to Christ. On their way to Tyburn gal-. JAMES ROGERS. SAMUEL BARDSLEY. lows spectators wept and officers looked affrightedsang the hymn beginning: as they • Lam I) of God, whose bleeding loveWe still recall to mind. A fortnight after the execution Sarah Peters died of malig-nant fever, probably caught in the jail. She was, saysWesley, a lover of souls, a mother in Israel. We read ofmany like Elizabeth Duchesne, for near forty years zealousof good works, and who shortened her days by laboring forthe poor beyond her strength : Mrs. Kiteley, a perfect pat- 920 British Methodism turn of true womanhood—a good wife, a good parent, a goodmistress—who after many years of active benevolence re-deemed a poor, friendless youth from prison, took the jaildistemper, and died; Betty Brown, one of the first membersat Wigan, of whom Wesley quotes her husbands words: IfI think right, she was the beloved of God, the delight of hischildren, a dread to wicked men, and a torment to devils. Many of these good wome
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