CHAPTER X. THE WESLEYAN METHODISTS 210 AT A WATCH-NIGHT SERVICE 223 CHAPTER XI. THE QUAKERS 232 JONATHAN GRUBB AT THE AGRICULTURAL HALL 236 CHAPTER XII. THE MORAVIANS IN FETTER LANE 244 CHAPTER XIII. THE SWEDENBORGIANS 252 CHAPTER XIV. THE IRVINGITES, OR APOSTOLICAL CHURCH 271 CHAPTER XV. THE FREE CHRISTIAN UNION 279 CHAPTER XVI. THE LONDON ECCLESIA 291 THE CHRISTADELPHIANS 298 CHAPTER XVII. SOME MINOR SECTS 306 THE PECULIAR PEOPLE 307 THE SANDEMANIANS 313 THE SOUTHCOTTIANS 320 THE SPIRITUALISTS 328 THE CAMPBELLITES 335 THE MORMONS 344 CHAPTER XVIII. ADVANCED RELIGIONISTS:— THE CHURCH OF PROGRESS 352 THE INDEPENDENT RELIGIOUS REFORMERS 359 SOUTH PLACE, FINSBURY SQUARE 365 THE SECULARISTS 371 CHAPTER XIX. THE IRREGULARS 380 IRREGULAR AGENCIES 381 CHAPTER I. ON HERESY AND ORTHODOXY. The original meaning of the word heresy is choice. “It was long used,” writes Dr. Waddington, “by the philosophers to designate the preference and selection of some speculative opinion, and in process of time was applied without any sense of reproach to every sect.” The most fruitful source of speculative opinion is, and has ever been, religion; from the schools of philosophy to those of theology the term heresy passed by a very intelligible and simple process. The word is thrice used in the Acts to denote sect (Acts v. 17, xv. 5, and xxiv. 5), and Paul himself when on his defence before Felix and in answer to Tertullus confesses that “after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers.”