Wesleyan Methodist Church (United States)

[4] The Wesleyan Methodist Connection desired an educated presbyterate and championed the establishment of a seminary in each Annual Conference.

[4] Advocating First-day Sabbatarian principles, the Wesleyan Methodist Church resolved to give honor to the Lord's Day through encouraging the attendance of Sunday School, services of worship, and abstaining from servile labour.

[4] It taught the equality of races and held that there was no reason why a black minister could not be appointed to a predominantly white congregation.

[4] The denomination supported the temperance movement; it took a stand against membership in secret societies as being "inconsistent with our duties to God and Christianity".

Several conferences in both merging denominations refused to be a part of the merged church over differences about modesty and worldliness (some of the conferences did not permit their members to have television sets, and required the women to have uncut hair in keeping with their interpretation of 1 Corinthians 11:15).

Grace Wesleyan Methodist Church in Akron, Ohio was a part of the Allegheny Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which eventually separated from the denomination and became the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection .