'Sleep not while the trumpet is blown in Zion': Public Somnolence, Civic Values and Modern Audience in Eighteenth-century Britain

• Published in: Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century pp. 63 - 80
• Main Author: van Eijnatten, Joris
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2013
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: George III; Lord's Day; Young Man; Charles Daubeny; National Biography; Unfermented Grape Juice; Ancient British Church; Calvinistic Methodist; Classic British Representation; Eighteenth Century Minds; Town Hall; Audience's Mental State; Advent Sunday; Nonconformist Conscience; Sunday; Dissenting Sunday Schools; King Pin; National Library; Anglican Sunday Schools; Hogarth's Print; Welsh Educationalists

This chapter explains that the secession of the Calvinistic Methodists from the Anglican Church in 1811 helped ensure the numerical triumph of the Nonconformists over the Church by the mid-nineteenth century, so that Nonconformists felt justified in claiming Wales as their own. Methodism in separati...