Selina Hastings
Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon (1707-1791) was a sovereign grace believer who financed chapels, organized churches and sponsored gospel preachers. She belonged to the Methodist movement, her Calvinist group known as the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion.
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Selina, Countess Of Huntingdon And Her Connexion
Lovers of eighteenth century church history will have often come across the name of Lady Huntingdon and the ministry which she founded. Often, however, her name is merely dropped here and there in passing and when more space is afforded her, it is invariably in conjunction with well-known preachers such as Wesley, Doddridge, Whitefield, Toplady, Romaine and Venn. This fact has tended to place her in a subsidiary position in modern research into eighteenth century evangelism and church-growth. This is a pity as the very fact that Lady Huntingdon’s name is associated with nearly every important move of the Spirit in the eighteenth century shows what a great influence she had under God during these times. She thus deserves to be studied as a person…
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The Life And Testimony Of Selina Hastings
The names of Whitefield, the Wesleys, Romaine, Toplady, and others, carry our minds back to an eventful period—to a time when, amidst the coldness and apathy which seemed to have settled over the land, God raised up men whose preaching, like a flame of fire, warmed many hearts, and, in spite of opposition and enmity, left a light which no human power could extinguish. From London City to the mountains of Wales, or the moors of Yorkshire, and to the masses of the miners gathered together in the Cornish villages, this wave spread, touching the very hearts of the people, for it was the power of the living God sending forth these men to enforce the claims of His righteous law, the awful consequences of…
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The Life And Ministry Of Selina Hastings
It is due to the memory of great saints that their names should not only be kept alive, but that the fragrance that gathered around them in life should he preserved. Popery has always canonized its great names; Protestantism has its uncanonized saints. Among them are those zealous servants of God who took such a distinguished part in the great Revival of the eighteenth century, such as Whitefield and Wesley, and their active coadjutors. Foremost among the great helpers was the devoted Countess of Huntingdon. It is more than a hundred years since she left the world, and to some of the present day she is but a name, to many scarcely that. But the life and labours of this noble Christian lady are worthy…
