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Also Known As Methodist church

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Wesley, John
World Methodist Museum
Methodist camp meeting
Methodist camp meeting
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Anna Howard Shaw.
Anna Howard Shaw
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Lucy Jane Rider Meyer
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Belle Harris Bennett
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William Williams
British religious leader
Asbury, Francis
Francis Asbury
American clergyman
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Thomas Charles
Welsh religious leader
Embury, portrait by an unknown artist
Philip Embury
British-American preacher
John Wesley
John Wesley
English clergyman

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