Methodist William Wilberforce

[dorothy_smith]

Please say a prayer for the Methodist abolitionist William Wilberforce. (He was truly a saintly man)

“*His greatest political efforts were for those caught in the vice of slavery. British ships were carrying black slaves from Africa to the West Indies as goods to be bought and sold. Wilberforce began his campaign to abolish the slave trade in 1798. Through his efforts, along with members of the “Clapham Sect,” the slave trade was abolished after eighteen years of hard work.

Following this victory, Wilberforce began to work for the abolition of slavery itself. Three days before he died in 1833, he heard that the House of Commons had passed the law which emancipated all the slaves in Britain’s colonies. Later, through the influence of his crusade against slavery in England, America would also free her slaves.” *britannia.com/bios/wilberforce.htm

 

[Eileen_T]

Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let Perpetual Light remain upon him, may he rest in peace. Amen

 

[Jaypeeto4]

Wilberforce was truly a great and godly man.
If you can, see the new movie AMAZING GRACE playing in theatres now. It is about Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish the slave trade. It’s excellent.

Jaypeeto4 (aka Jaypeeto3)

 

[dorothy_smith]

Wilberforce was truly a great and godly man.
If you can, see the new movie AMAZING GRACE playing in theatres now. It is about Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish the slave trade. It’s excellent.

Jaypeeto4 (aka Jaypeeto3)

I’m going to see it this weekend

 

[Hesychios]

Wilberforce was truly a great and godly man.
If you can, see the new movie AMAZING GRACE playing in theatres now. It is about Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish the slave trade. It’s excellent.

Jaypeeto4 (aka Jaypeeto3)

Yes, he was a very great and noble gentleman as well as man of the cloth. I have no doubt many people owe their lives and well-being to him, the rewards in heaven should be great for such a man. An example for us all.

BTW, two of his sons became Roman Catholics. One was a Church of England clergyman who became a Roman Catholic priest!

Wonders never cease.

Michael

 

[Jaypeeto4]

Thanks for the info, Michael !!
I never knew that 2 of his sons became Catholics.
At the time they did so, that was NOT a socially-acceptable thing to do over in Merry Olde England.

The world owes a great debt to William Wilberforce.
God bless him.

Jaypeeto4 (aka Jaypeeto3)

 

[Contarini]

Please say a prayer for the Methodist abolitionist William Wilberforce. (He was truly a saintly man)%between%

I’m very glad to hear you say that. One clarification, though–Wilberforce was not a Methodist in any denominational sense. “Methodism” was originally a broad (derogatory) term for the 18th-century evangelical movement. The main “Methodist” group, led by the Wesley brothers, was Arminian. There was a somewhat smaller group known as “Calvinistic Methodists” which also became a separate church, but most of the Calvinists who were associated with the evangelical movement (and hence were “Methodist” in the broad sense) never left the Church of England and did not form any kind of separate organization (the Wesley brothers never left the CofE themselves, but John established an organization that after his death became an independent church).

So Wilberforce, like Newton and Cowper, would be best described as a Calvinistic Evangelical Anglican. In other words, he was Calvinist in theology, evangelical in piety, and Anglican by affiliation. He was a fellow-traveller with the Methodists and was dubbed a Methodist by “worldly” society (much as the media today tend to call all evangelicals, indeed all conservative Christians, “fundamentalists”). But he was not in any sense a member of a Methodist society (as far as I know) or a Methodist church (of that part I am certain).

Edwin

 

[Allweather]

The world owes a great debt to William Wilberforce.
God bless him.

Jaypeeto4 (aka Jaypeeto3)

I saw the film right after it was released, and was disappointed in it. It could have been a lot better than it was. It just got lost in itself, and didn’t really give the proper focus. I kept thinking, gosh, after the Brits got to the point where they’d enriched themselves fabulously via the slave trade and colonial pursuits, they could afford to abolish slavery, which was going to happen anyway because of economic factors that were soon going to make slavery not only grotesque, but unprofitable.

 

[Eric_Hyom]

After eighteen years of battling in parliament Wilberforce won the argument with one sentence.

When you stand before God, how will you justify your stance on slavery?

He won a landslide victory with about 260 for and only 20 against.

If politicians like Bush and Blair had a true faith in God we could ask the same question today about many issues on war, injustice and poverty.

When you stand before God how will you justify the deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq?

In a mainly secular world it is one argument we do not use against politicians today, yet look at the power Wilberforce found

 

[Mimi]

After eighteen years of battling in parliament Wilberforce won the argument with one sentence.

When you stand before God, how will you justify your stance on slavery?

He won a landslide victory with about 260 for and only 20 against.

If politicians like Bush and Blair had a true faith in God we could ask the same question today about many issues on war, injustice and poverty.

When you stand before God how will you justify the deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq?

In a mainly secular world it is one argument we do not use against politicians today, yet look at the power Wilberforce found

And I might add:
When you stand before God, how will you justify the 3,000+ per day lives lost through legalized abortion?
(3,000 per day in the US at least)

Mimi
pray the rosary!

 

[Mickey_Jackson]

America needs a Wilberforce now, in so many ways: abortion (first and foremost), but also the death penalty, poverty, health care, international human rights, etc., etc., etc.

Unfortunately, so many (on both sides of the political spectrum) who claim to stand for what is right on this issue are wolves in sheep’s clothing, doing so for their own personal gain. Where is our Wilberforce?