Epworth League

Epworth League

The Epworth League was an organization of the young people of the Methodist Episcopal church, formed in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, by the combination of five young people's organizations then existing. The purpose of the league was the promotion of intelligent and vital piety among the young people of the church.

Growth

The League existed in both the Northern and Southern branches of the Methodist Episcopal denomination and also in the Methodist church of Canada.

1913 figures

The membership of the Senior branch in the Methodist Episcopal church North in 1913 was 593,465, and of the junior branch 218,509. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Encyclopedia] In the Methodist Episcopal church South there were, in 1913, 3846 chapters of the league, with 133,797 members. The headquarters of the Northern League was in Chicago and its organ was the "Epworth Herald". The organ of the Southern branch was the "Epworth Era", published monthly at Nashville, Tenn.

Publications

* Bacon and Northrup, "Young People's Societies" (New York, 1900)
* "The Methodist Year Book"
* Dan B. Brummett, "Epworth League Methods" (New York, 1906)

In Popular Culture

*In "The Music Man", set in 1912 Iowa, teenager Zaneeta Shinn declines a date because "it's Epworth League night".
*In "All the King's Men", by Robert Penn Warren, the protagonist describes the blandness of the column he is hired to write by reference to the Epworth League.

See also

*Waukee United Methodist Church


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