John Wesley in the midst of the riots of 1743 in Wednesbury, England,when local people tried to force him to stop preaching

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John Wesley in the midst of the riots of 1743 in Wednesbury, England,when local people tried to force him to stop preaching to new converts to Methodism, engraving from Selections from the Journal of John Wesley, 1891

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