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id: 27776
title: The Methodist A Poem
author: Lloyd, Evan
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  Evan Lloyd''s works consist chiefly of four satires written in 1766 a short-lived revolt against the tyranny of Augustan satire and shows Augustan satiric alternative--returning to older beliefs in religion, long, wandering sentences--seems to move, as does Robert Lloyd''s satire Evan Lloyd''s first satire, _The Powers of the Pen_, is a clever but ordinary satire on good and bad writing. problem with all of Lloyd''s satires except _The Methodist_, and the same Lloyd is the one anti-Methodist satirist who explores the larger Lloyd constructs his satire around the theme of general corruption, that The Methodist practice of lay preachers, for example, Lloyd conclusion of the satire he asks God to halt the Methodist movement within." This condition of the world can be expressed satirically by a After _The Methodist_ Lloyd wrote _Conversation_, a satire that not only of any earlier satire of Lloyd''s. Lloyd, in writing _The Methodist_, seems to have come as close as any


id: 9449
title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7
author: Holley, Marietta
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  The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church is the highest are, women are not eligible as lay delegates in the General Conference." abide that the General Conference granted to the women of the Church the right to vote on a great and important question in ecclesiastical law. of lay delegation, the women of the Church were granted the right of when the right to vote was granted to women in the Church. General Conference handed the question of lay delegation down to the Constitution of the United States, said, "Women may be officers of the Discipline of the Church, will place these women delegates in this body Electoral Conferences, and they vote in elections for delegates from Lay Electoral Conferences, and they vote in elections for delegates from Lay honorable women, into the General Conference of the Church by the same the Methodist Episcopal Church are women eligible as lay delegates in


id: 9445
title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3
author: Holley, Marietta
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  And she told me, after she had looked it all over and said it wuz kinder Wall, as I said, it wuz durin'' the fifth week that Josiah Allen turned Wall, I had brought it out and wuz jest a-goin'' to put it onto the "Wall," she said, "to tie it with red wuzn''t at all appropriate, it wuz "No," sez Josiah, who had come in and wuz a standin'' by the side of me, "Yes," sez I, coldly, "he wuz dretful likely to have diamonds more then [Illustration: "CEPHAS SAID IT WUZ A BURNIN'' SHAME FOR RELATIONS TO But Cephas said he wuz jest dispatchin'' a messenger for us when we And I told Sally Ann, that wuz Cephas''ses wife, that I would do anything Wall, he worked hard, day and night, for three little children come to Annie wuz jest overcome with grief the day I got there, but the


id: 9446
title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 4
author: Holley, Marietta
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  jest _knew_ the world wuz a comin'' to a end that very day, the last day there hain''t nobody like Joe; and it wuz s''pozed that Jenette thought so Joe likes her, everybody could see that, for he wuz jest such a great, said, good ones, but she wouldn''t leave her father and mother, who wuz Wall, she wuz to work to Mother Charnick''s makin'' her a black alpacka A good many said that Miss Charnick got dresses a purpose for Jenette to Miss Charnick wuz a believer, but not to the extent that Joe was. But Trueman''s wife wouldn''t gin in, she stuck right to it, "that it wuz Jenette put in and sez (she thinks all the world of Mother Charnick), Joe''s face got red; he couldn''t bear to see Jenette put upon, if she wuz Wall, the believers wuz all a-goin'' to meet at the Risley school-house


id: 9443
title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 1
author: Holley, Marietta
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  Sez I, "_She_ wuz in the wrong on''t in not lettin'' wimmen set on the "Wall, I say _he_ wuz right," sez Josiah. When I first heard that wimmen wuz goin'' to make a effort to set on a They said, "The better the man wuz, the better the buzz saw he would be "I wuz dumbin'' the idee," sez he, "that a man can''t make money when he the deacon''s society." It wuz goin'' to devour so much of his time that The idees wuz, "that wimmen hadn''t no business to set on the Conference. And I kept right on, calm and serene, and sez I, "It wuz very full of thought it wuz." And Josiah jined right in with her and said: I got up, and sez I, "Come, Josiah, I guess we had better be a-goin''." see the way the stove and Josiah wuz set and wedged in.


id: 9447
title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5
author: Holley, Marietta
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  Sez I, "Every one knows that in the first place Simeon Lathers wuz the such men as Deacon Widrig and Simeon Lathers in the meetin'' house?" Sez had come onto our meetin'' house, and how Zion wuz a-languishin'', etc., meetin'' house before, time and agin, and we wimmen have always laid holt Methodist meetin'' house from disgrace, for the men wuz that worked up The men had said that in such church work as that wimmen had a perfect and wuz right accordin'' to the rules of the Methodist Meetin'' House, for So''s I can truly say, the Meetin'' House wuz on me day and night. Sez I, "It seemed to mean wimmen when Metilda Henn wuz turned out of the "Yes," sez Josiah haughtily, "And it always means men in the higher and "Wimmen''s work!" sez he. Why, he said," sez Casper, "that if wimmen wuz


id: 9448
title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 6
author: Holley, Marietta
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  Wall, he wuz a noble lookin'' man as I ever see, fur or near, and as good but the present wuz the time to try to help Ralph S. A good sound man Deacon Garven wuz, a man who would cheat himself before and his life depended on his gettin'' sleep, and we wuz afraid the bells His look wuz skairful in the extreme, but I sez-Sez he, "Look how fur back in the past the sweet bells have sounded hain''t no earthly need of the bells to tell the time to go to meetin'', "Wall," he said, "it wuz different times now." Sez I, "The Lord, if He wuz here to-day, Deacon Garven, if He had bent Wall, that night Josiah Allen wuz a-feelin'' dretful neat, fer he had wuz the best time in the hull three hundred and sixty-five days of the


id: 9444
title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 2
author: Holley, Marietta
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  Wall, that very horse fell out of the machine three times that day. wuz a sick horse, I believe, and hadn''t ort to have been worked. The machine wuz in plain sight of the house, and every time we see the had got to come on jest that day, jest as I wuz fryin'' my nut cakes for It wuz a curius time before he come, Miss Peedick had unexpected company come in, jest as they wuz a-settin'' the day had only jest begun, and there wuz time for lots of things Wall, it wuz a good half-hour before Wall, I went to work voyalently, and in two hours'' time I had got my skairt; she had heard every word Josiah had said, and she wuz dretful visit it wuz jest the same; all the hull time, till about the middle of


