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Selina: Countess of Huntingdon: Her Pivotal Role in the 18th Century Evangelical Awakening

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Selina: Countess of Huntingdon: Her Pivotal Role in the 18th Century Evangelical Awakening

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Deeply admired by contemporaries such as King George III, Henry Venn and George Whitefield (who described her as ‘all in a flame for Jesus’), Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon left an indelible mark on the Evangelical Awakening of the Eighteenth Century. Closely involved for nearly forty years with the leaders of the burgeoning Methodist movement, she gave herself unstintingly to the cause of Christ. She contributed sacrificially to the construction of sixty-four chapels, the opening of many other places of worship, and the founding of Trevecca College in Wales. Drawing on unpublished letters, Faith Cook gives a deeper and truer-to-life portrait than previously available. Introducing the reader to a gallery of well-known Eighteenth Century personalities, she takes us behind the scenes into Selina’s drawing rooms. There the Countess secured an entrance for the gospel among the aristocracy through the powerful preaching of such evangelical luminaries as George Whitefield, William Romaine and John Fletcher.

The driving passion of Selina’s life, according to the author, was ‘a zeal for the salvation of her servants, her acquaintances, her family and the nobililty’.

As Lady Catherwood points out in the Foreword, Faith Cook’s biography not only rescues the Countess from undeserved obscurity and misrepresentation, but also shows what God can accomplish through the tireless labours of a godly woman whose heart’s desire was that the ‘dear Lamb of God, my best, my eternal, my only Friend should have all dedicated to his service and glory’.

 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix
  Preface and Acknowledgements xi
  Foreword xiii
  Troubled Childhood 1
  The Young Countess 11
  All Things New 26
  Setting the Scene 42
  ‘An Instrument for Good’ 57
  To Rich and to Poor 69
  Family Sorrows – Christian Friendships 82
  ‘I Dread Slack Hands in the Vineyard’ 101
  ‘A Most Brilliant Assembly’ 116
  ‘The Strength of Her Soul Is Amazing’ 129
  The Countess and the Wesley Brothers, 1749-55 141
  An Emerging Pattern 154
  Family Concerns 166
  Cross Currents, 1759-60 181
  Doors of Opportunity 194
  Travelling On 206
  New Chapels, New Friends, New Unity 217
  ‘A School of Prophets – That Is the Thing!’ 232
  Hopes Fulfilled 243
  Calm before the Storm 254
  The Parting of the Ways 271
  The Aftermath 285
  ‘She Is a Mother to Us All’ 299
  Missionary Endeavour 315
  ‘The Surprising Success of Our Labours Everywhere’ 332
  Old Friends and New 349
  ‘I Am to Be Cast Out’ 366
  Encouragements and Setbacks of Declining Years 382
  ‘My Time Is Short’ 398
  ‘My Work Is Done’ 412
  APPENDICES:  
 1. Letter on the Death of the Countess of Huntingdon 423
 2. Biographical Works on the Countess of Huntingdon 425
 3. Shirley Family Tree 430
 4. Hastings Family Tree 431
 5. Subsequent Service of Some Trevecca Students 432
 6. And Afterwards. . . 438
 7. The Fifteen Articles of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion 442
 8. The Plan of Association, 1790 448
  Bibliography 454
  Index 463

 

About the Author

Faith Cook, daughter of Stanley and Norah Rowe, missionaries of the China Inland Mission (now OMF), was born in north-west China. After missionaries were evicted from the country in 1951, she returned to the UK and attended Clarendon School in North Wales before proceeding to teacher training college in Bromley, Kent. She married Paul Cook in 1961, and they served several evangelical churches in the Midlands and Yorkshire before his retirement. They have a daughter, four sons and ten grandchildren, and now live in Breaston, Derbyshire.

Faith has written of her childhood in China in Troubled Journey, and has authored several other books published by the Trust, including Sound of Trumpets, Singing in the Fire, and two major biographies – Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and William Grimshaw of Haworth.

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