The history of Methodism . al means ofconsecrating that unhallowed spot. A Decorous Divine 679 It would be difficult to find a more striking contrast thanthat which the decorous divine William Romaine (1714-1795)presents to Berridge. Great congregations flocked to hearthis learned, grave Calvinistic preacher at St. Georges, Han-over Square. Hewas charged withvulgarizing thefashionable congre-gation by attractingso many to thechurch. He wasappointed eveninglecturer at St. Dun-stans, Fleet Street,but the rectorbarred his entranceto the pulpit. LordMansfield decidedthat the church washis after se
The history of Methodism . al means ofconsecrating that unhallowed spot. A Decorous Divine 679 It would be difficult to find a more striking contrast thanthat which the decorous divine William Romaine (1714-1795)presents to Berridge. Great congregations flocked to hearthis learned, grave Calvinistic preacher at St. Georges, Han-over Square. Hewas charged withvulgarizing thefashionable congre-gation by attractingso many to thechurch. He wasappointed eveninglecturer at St. Dun-stans, Fleet Street,but the rectorbarred his entranceto the pulpit. LordMansfield decidedthat the church washis after seven inthe evening, butthe churchwardenskept the doorlocked. Whenthey were com-pelled to give waythey refused candles, so that Romaine preached by the lightof one candle which he held in his hand. He became rec-tor of .St. Anns, Blackfriars, where he preached the sermonswhich afterward were shaped into The Life, Walk, andTriumph of Faith. He belonged to Lady HuntingdonsConnection until she seceded from the Establishment, in. OflAWN BY MORLAND. AFTER THE ENGRAVING BY HIGHAM ST. GEORGES CHURCH, HANOVER SQ., LONDON. 680 British Methodism 1781, though he retained his friendship with her. Thoughhe differed so widely from Wesley on the points of Calvinism,he was not alienated from him, as some others were, and in1763 we find Wesley writing to Lady Huntingdon, OnlyMr. Romaine has shown a truly sympathizing spirit and actedthe part of a brother. Another famous evangelical was Henry Venn (1724-1797),curate of Clapham, and afterward Vicar of Huddersfield andof Yelling. Like Romaine, he belonged to Lady Hunting-dons Connection until her secession. He was the authorof The Complete Duty of Man, an evangelical counterblastto the older Whole Duty of Man. One of his letters won theready assent of Wesley: I, no less than you, preach justifi-cation by faith only, the absolute necessity of holiness, theincreasing mortification of sin, and rejection of all past ex-periences and attainments. I abhor
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