Methodist New Connexion

Christianity • Protestantism The Methodist New Connexion, also known as Kilhamite Methodism, was a Protestant nonconformist church.

[2] The secession was led by Alexander Kilham and William Thom, and resulted from a dispute regarding the position and rights of the laity.

[1] In 1791, Kilham denounced the Methodist conference for giving too much power to the ministers of the church, at the expense of the laity.

On the English concession there was a large mission establishment, consisting of a training college for native students for the ministry, missionaries houses, and a boarding school for the training of native women and girls in Christian life and work.

The largest mission of this Society was in the north-east portion of the province of Shandong, where about fifty native churches were maintained in an agricultural district extending over about three hundred miles.

The headquarters of this circuit were in Chu Chia[clarification needed], Laoling district, where were situated the mission houses, and a medical dispensary and hospital.

F. B. Turner, and rapidly extended, having a church in the ancient city of Yung-ping-fu[clarification needed], near the old wall, and also several rural chapels in the district round Kaiping.

Several native women were also set apart as Biblewomen to their own sex; one of these, Mrs Hu, had laboured in this capacity for nearly twenty-five years, and was the first such agent ever employed in China.