The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . howere miserably underpaid. It was onlyby being a pluralist that many a poorWelsh parson had a chance of keepingthe wolf of hunger from the door. A number of them never wore canonicals,simply because their incomes did notallow of such an expense. Hence theprestige of the clergy was low, and thenecessity for supplementary ef
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . howere miserably underpaid. It was onlyby being a pluralist that many a poorWelsh parson had a chance of keepingthe wolf of hunger from the door. A number of them never wore canonicals,simply because their incomes did notallow of such an expense. Hence theprestige of the clergy was low, and thenecessity for supplementary effort waspatent to all. Thrown back upon them-selves, the people listened to nativepreachers and catechists, and veiled oropen Dissent flourished. In England aDissenter was regarded as in a measureunpatriotic, and thereby so much lessthe true-born Englishman; in Wales itwas quite the other way. At this time the Rev. Griffith Jones,whose very name must have been mu-sical to Welsh ears, was at the height ofhis usefulness. Born five years beforethe Revolution, he had been in theministry for thirty years, and had stillover twenty years of service before the Wesleys and Whitefield he hadoffered himself for foreign missionarywork, but the arrangement fell JOHN WESLEY PREACHING FROM HIS FATHERS TOMB 104 The Illustrated History of Methodism.
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