. Men and women of deep piety. was wrong. Modern girls would more likelybe planning for good times and fashionable gowns. Devout,thoughtful, amiable and beautiful, Susanna was the favoritechild of her father, and her religious choice made no breachbetween them. Abel Stevens, LL. D., writes: She showed a dscrim-inative judgment of books and men, and, without any uniquetraits of genius, presents perhaps one of the completest char-acters, moral and intellectual, to be found in the history ofher sex. She has left us no proof of poetical talent, and thegenius of her children in this respect seems t
. Men and women of deep piety. was wrong. Modern girls would more likelybe planning for good times and fashionable gowns. Devout,thoughtful, amiable and beautiful, Susanna was the favoritechild of her father, and her religious choice made no breachbetween them. Abel Stevens, LL. D., writes: She showed a dscrim-inative judgment of books and men, and, without any uniquetraits of genius, presents perhaps one of the completest char-acters, moral and intellectual, to be found in the history ofher sex. She has left us no proof of poetical talent, and thegenius of her children in this respect seems to have been in-herited from their father, whose passionate love of the artand unwearied attempts at rhythm, if not poetry, may alsoaccount for the hereditary talent of the family in music. Herfeatures were slight, but almost classical in their were thoroughly Wesleyan, affording proof that JohnWesley inherited from his mother not only his best moral andintellectual traits, t>ut those of his physiognomy. 432. Susanna Wesley Susanna Wesley 485 She devoted one hour every morning and evening to medi-tation and prayer. She wrote: If comparatively to despiseand undervalue all the world contains, which is esteemed great,fair or good; if earnestly to desire Thee, Thy favor. Thy ac-ceptance. Thyself, rather than any or all things Thou hast cre-ated, be to love Thee, I do love Thee. She was married at the age of nineteen to Samuel Wesley,a little, hot-headed, strong-willed preacher of the Church ofEngland. His ministerial ancestors had also been dissenters,and suffered much for their faith. He was a well-meaningbut impracticable man, never learning how to bring his ex-penses within his income, going away to ministerial conven-tions at great expense, or being imprisoned for debt, and leavinghis brave, overburdened wife to look after her home, and theparish, and to secure bread for their too numerous family. She bore nineteen children in twenty-one years. Almostone-half
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