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wife. In the division which was the result of the controversy respecting the administration of the sacraments by the preachers (1814–18), Averell took a prominent part with the conservatives who adhered to Wesley's polity, declaring on 21 Jan. 1818 at Clones that the
Methodists 'are not a church but a religious society.' The first meeting of the
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On 18 December 1785 he married the daughter and heiress of the Rev. R. Gregory of
Tentower, Queen's County. He was at this time in the habit of preaching against the Methodists, and lived as a man of the world, enjoying cards, hunting, and dancing. Two circumstances produced a change — the reading of
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from 1789 to 1791. He was offered in 1792 a curacy at
Madeley, but preferred to exercise a gratuitous ministry nearer home. On 7 October, 1792 he preached for the first time to a Methodist congregation; in 1796 the Dublin conference admitted him to full connection. In 1797 he was separated from his
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was held on 10 July 1818; Averell was elected president, and constantly re-elected until after 1841, when his infirmities led him to decline office. He opened the
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Wesley's 'Appeal,' and an illness which seized him during some private theatricals. Becoming evangelical in his views and habits, he acted as curate to Dr. Ledwich at
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