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Stith's evangelical family made him listen to Christian music and practised Wesleyanism.

Take, for instance, the case of Mehetabel Wesley, the younger sister of the celebrated founder of Wesleyanism. 

For Aunt Joanna was very strict in her Wesleyanism, and bitterly hostile to all such carnal amusements as dancing and play-acting.

Religiously, the people of the lower orders are as wedded to Wesleyanism as in their mining tactics they are to their old-fashioned ways.

But, except in so far as it increased dissent in religion, the liberating influence of Wesleyanism was small.