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 . the morethe power was exercised.•5) 116 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF METHODISM. In London, as in Bristol, he was soonto obtain control, as if by manifest des-tiny. In his absence the Fetter-lane So-ciety had given itself up to vain dispu-tations, chiefly over the necessity ofordinances, and the use of other meansof grace. Des
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 . the morethe power was exercised.•5) 116 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF METHODISM. In London, as in Bristol, he was soonto obtain control, as if by manifest des-tiny. In his absence the Fetter-lane So-ciety had given itself up to vain dispu-tations, chiefly over the necessity ofordinances, and the use of other meansof grace. Despairing of bringing themback to reason, Wesley made a final pro-test and then seceded, with about a scoreof others. They secured a dilapidatedbuilding in Windmill street, near Fins-bury square, called the Foundry, fromits having been used for the casting ofcannon. Having obtained a long leaseof the lot, they proceeded to erect apreaching-house, which included notonly a hall for the meeting of the classes,but also a school-room and library, whereWesleys publications were sold. Overthe hall were the plain lodgings whichserved him as headquarters and as ahome for a great number of years. Hereit was that his saintly mother died. The first meeting of the little society. mrs. susannah we;si,e;y. took place in July, 1740, a year after theerection at the Horse-Fair, Bristol, of theearlier building. Others of the samekind were soon to follow, that at New-castle-upon-Tyne being for long the mostimportant. It was at Newcastle, threeyears later, that a set of general rules wasdrawn up for the guidance of the unitedsocieties. These rules bear the date May1, 1743, and are signed John Wesley,Charles Wesley A society wastherein defined as a company of men,having the form, and seeking the powerof godliness; united in order to praytogether, to receive the word of exhorta-tion, and to watch over one another inlove, that they may help each to workout their own salvation. For the practical furthe
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