Origin of the Class Meeting Ticket for Methodist Societies

To each of those whose seriousness and good conversation I found no reason to doubt I gave a testimony under my own hand by writing their name on a ticket prepared for that purpose, every ticket implying as strong a recommendation of that person to whom it was given as if I had wrote at length, 'I believe the bearer hereof to be one that fears God and works righteousness.'

Those who bore these tickets (these tesserae, as the ancients termed them, being of just the same force with the commendatory letters, mentioned by the Apostle), wherever they came, were acknowledged by their brethren and received with all cheerfulness.

Letter to the Rev. Vincent Perronet, 1748, the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.