Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
British countess
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (24 August 1707 – 17 June 1791) was an English religious leader who played a prominent part in the religious revival of the eighteenth century and the Methodist movement in England and Wales, and has left a Christian denomination (Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion) in England and Sierra Leone.
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Quotes
edit- My work is done; I have nothing to do but to go to my Father.
- 17 June 1791: Last words, quoted in Famous Sayings and their Authors, p. 44
- None know how to prize the Saviour, but such as are zealous in pious works for others.
- Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 399.
External links
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- Edward Latham: Famous Sayings And Their Authors, Second Edition, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain, 1906
- Kirby, Gilbert W. The Elect Lady.
- Cook, Faith, Selina, Countess of Huntingdon – article in Evangelical Times, October 2001.