Can anyone tell me, who epworth were, please?

Google Translate trying to literally translate back the Chinese phonetic transliteration of AIWA 爱华, pronounced ai wah.

it's called back translation, twain used it to pull the reader's legs in a famous piece, but i find that google's involuntary humor is way better.

see here:

http://librivox.org/the-jumping-frog-by-mark-twain/