Ontario High School History of England . romreading Luther on the Epistleto the Galatians, he learned,like Luther, to lay the chiefstress in religious teaching onpersonal faith in Christ. Onaccount of his supposed mis-taken zeal, he was, in 1742,refused leave to preach in the church at his birthplace,Epworth, of which his father had been rector. He preachedinstead in the churchyard, standing on his fathers tomb;hundreds were impressed by his words, and for more thanforty years he continued the work thus begun. GeorgeWhitfield, another clergyman of remarkable eloquence, aidedhim, until they qua
Ontario High School History of England . romreading Luther on the Epistleto the Galatians, he learned,like Luther, to lay the chiefstress in religious teaching onpersonal faith in Christ. Onaccount of his supposed mis-taken zeal, he was, in 1742,refused leave to preach in the church at his birthplace,Epworth, of which his father had been rector. He preachedinstead in the churchyard, standing on his fathers tomb;hundreds were impressed by his words, and for more thanforty years he continued the work thus begun. GeorgeWhitfield, another clergyman of remarkable eloquence, aidedhim, until they quarrelled on a question of doctrine. Serviceswere sometimes held in churches, but as often in the open air,on village greens, in narrow city streets, on hillsides; once,at least, Wesley spoke from the roof of a pig-sty. Whitfieldsometimes preached to audiences numbering ten thousand. The Methodists leave the Church of England.—BothWhitfield and Wesley penetrated to the remotest partsof England, and their zeal carried them to America. In. John Wkslet (1703-1791) SOCIETY IN ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 429 each year Wesley travelled, usually on horseback, aboutsix thousand miles, and preached about a thousandtimes. His life is an amazing record of hard often preached at five oclock in the morning, andat that hour could draw a multitude, who would stay tolisten to him even amid torrents of. rain. Unfriendly mobssometimes stoned him and his preachers, or flogged them, orthrew them into the water; but this did not keep evendelicate women from taking part in the brave work. Wesleysown desire was that the religious societies which he foundedshould not break the tie with the Church of England; heheld no services during church hours, and at his meetingsno sacraments were administered. But, soon after hisdeath, the Methodists severed their connection with theChurch of England, and formed an independent organiza-tion. His work reached the classes hitherto neglected, andbecame
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