METHODIST CHURCHES
UNION CELEBRATION IN LONDON. LONDON. September 19. The Lord Mayor gav ( . a reception to .1500 Methodists in the Guildhall, inaugurating the week's celebrations of the reunion. Doctor Scott- Padgett, first President of the United Church, said there were 10,000 Methodists already in London congregations, and 20,000 churches and (-Impels in Britain alone, which would also participate in the celebrations, which would bving the world’s largest evangelical church of fifty million niefjabers into being. The Duke and Duchess of York a’ - e attending an historic meeting in the Albert Hall to-morrow, consummating the re-union of three Methodist churches, afte.r twenty years’ negotiations. It is estimated that, the combined membership of the ‘Wesleyan, Primitive and United Methodist churches is I} millions, making the Methodist th*.* largest Free ('hurch denomination in Britain. comprising 23.00(1 churches. 17,000 Sunday Schools. 5000 ministers, and 50.000 local preachers.
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Grey River Argus, 21 September 1932, Page 2
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