The history of Methodism . £40 id.—no small item. The building was often soovercrowded that preacher and people left it for the openfields, and the crazy structure was costly to repair. In 1775Wesley obtained from the city authorities a piece of landtwo hundred yards away from this old building, and on astormy April day in 1777 he laid the foundation stone ofthe new chapel in City Road. His sermon on theoccasion was fiercely criticised by Rowland Hill in theGospel Magazine. On November 1, 1778, the chapel wasopened. It was the first Methodist chapel built in Foundry, when taken
The history of Methodism . £40 id.—no small item. The building was often soovercrowded that preacher and people left it for the openfields, and the crazy structure was costly to repair. In 1775Wesley obtained from the city authorities a piece of landtwo hundred yards away from this old building, and on astormy April day in 1777 he laid the foundation stone ofthe new chapel in City Road. His sermon on theoccasion was fiercely criticised by Rowland Hill in theGospel Magazine. On November 1, 1778, the chapel wasopened. It was the first Methodist chapel built in Foundry, when taken, had nothing ecclesiastical in itsassociations except that the great bell of St. Pauls was cast there. West Street, Spitalfields, and Wapping Methodist 082 The City Road Chapel 983 chapels had been French Protestant churches built by theHuguenot refugees. The chapel at Snowsfields, Southwark,was owned bythe Arians be-fore it cameinto the handsof Wesley. CityRoad Chapel,moreover, wasunequaled asa buildingthroughout the. Nearly tenyears after itserection JosephBenson wroteto Wesley thatthe GeorgeYard Chapel,Hull, was equalto it. To thisWesley re-plied, If it beat all equal tothe new chapel in London, I will engage to eat it. Therewas no danger of Wesley having to eat the chapel or to eat his own words. INTERIOR OF CITY ROAD CHAPEL. After llie alterations, 189S. Befoie the fiie, 1861. 984 British Methodism Two years after it was built the chapel narrowly escapeddestruction by fire, as a characteristic entry by Wesley records : Waking be-tween one andtwo in themorning, I ob-served a bright1 i g- h t shineupon the chap-el. I easily con -c 1 u d e d t h a tthere was a firenear, probably
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