The World Methodist Council, founded in 1881, is an association of churches in the Methodist tradition which comprises most of the world's Wesleyan denominations.
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“Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
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With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)