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Thematic Elements
Personal & Social Holiness
Family Ties
19th Century Holiness
Julia's Legacy
100
The second controversial theme that Foot addresses in her autobiography deals with which population preaching?
Who are Women?
100
What was a common act of mercy that Julia Foote, (like John Wesley) saw as essential to the social holiness of the Church?
What is "visiting the poor and the forsaken (or sick)"?
100
What is the soteriological claim at the center of Julia Foote's faith testimony that was difficult for her own husband to believe was real and truly possible for the Christian life?
What is sanctification?
100
This female lay evangelist was a central figure in Methodist popular piety during the 19th Century; she was best known for helping others to experience “The Way of Holiness”?
Who is Phoebe (Worrall) Palmer?
100
This common pastime and popular entertainment of many men and women in the 19th century and still today was boldly rejected as corruptible temptation against Julia Foote’s own experience of consecration to God?
What is/are dancing/dances (or socials)?
200
What is the first controversial theme found in Foote’s autobiography centered on her different understanding of what concept?
What is Sanctification by the Holy Spirit?
200
What act of piety and primary means of grace did Julia Foote share as she ministered to the poor and the forsaken or sick?
What is reading the Bible or Scripture reading or "searching the Scriptures"?
200
Which family member after seeing the fruits of Julia's lay evangelism ministry accepted her daughter's call to preach and teach holiness as "the will of God"?
Who is her mother?
200
The Worrall sisters established this lay-lead holiness discipleship dynamo that closely resembled yet improved upon John Wesley’s earlier Class Meetings of first generation Methodism?
Tuesday Meetings for the Promotion of Holiness (Tuesday Holiness Meetings is an acceptable response)
200
Julia Foote as a former slave was an auto-didact or self-taught reader. What was the “one book” that she learned to read from first and helped form her own holiness-centered vocabulary?
The Holy Bible
300
This problem colored all of Foote’s life and makes up the third theme of her autobiography.
What is Racism?
300
Julia Foote often carried out this priestly act of piety on behalf of her nominal Christian peers or for earnest disciples of Jesus who were seeking to become "Holy unto the Lord"?
What is the ministry of INTERCESSION or praying for their own experience of sanctification/sanctifying grace?
300
What job kept Julia Foote's husband away from home for long periods of time?
What is "working at sea" or as a "sailor" "sea merchant", etc.?
300
This woman lived a “Happy Life” and was influenced by the Methodists’ but eventually settled in among the Quakers or the Society of Friends; her experience of holiness in faith was no longer a “Christian’s Secret”?
Who is Hannah Whitall Smith?
300
This was the distinctive black Methodist church denomination who eventually commissioned Julia Foote for ministry as one of its first ever ordained female deacons?
What is the African Methodist Episcopal Church - Zion (or AME Zion Church)
400
In regards to opposition to her preaching as a woman this group was more oppositional than most.
What is Who are male preachers (or ordained clergy)?
400
Julia Foote was hesitant to follow the leadership of the established church in her day when she felt their disapproval of her call to preach seemed contrary to this divine directive?
What is the Will of God or the direction/leading of the Holy Spirit?
400
Which member of Julia's family did she end up witnessing the gospel to on her death bed in 1901?
Who is her brother?
400
This lesser known sister of another prominent holiness figure experienced a distinct religious conversion that was recorded as an historic autobiographical event similar to that of Blaise Pascal?
Who is Sarah (Worrall) Lankford?
400
What was this audacious and alarming 2nd gospel liberty of sanctifying grace personally experienced by holiness Christians subsequent to their experience of justification and regeneration (or initial sanctification).
What is Freedom from the (present) power of sin.
500
Julia Foote's own experience of sanctifying grace happened to her while she was herself a part of this under-appreciated segment of the laity?
Who are the young or youth or teens?
500
Julia Foote experienced and believed in the spiritual manifestations of God's power upon her life as she received "holy messages" during her call to ministry; what supernatural means along with Scripture did God use to communicate his call to her?
What are angels, dreams, visions, etc.?
500
What experiential evidence of scriptural holiness was missing in Julia's estimation from her husband's life before she married him that she longed for him to receive by faith?
What is the Second Blessing or Sanctifying Grace or Sanctification?
500
Julia Foote likely preached at many of the camp meetings and revivals hosted by communities and churches networked through this influential interdenominational organization dedicated in 1867 to spreading Scriptural Holiness and the doctrine of Sanctification throughout all America?
What is the National Camp Meeting Association for the Promotion of Christian Holiness?
500
Julia Foote’s life and experience of holiness in her 50 years of ministry anticipated such antebellum reform movements such as abolitionism, women’s suffrage, and this rather “dry” reform initivative spearheaded by Christian women from both the holiness and progressive camps of the 19th century?
What is the Temperance Movement?