. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. Wesley, founder of Wesleyan Methodism, was theson of Samuel Wesley the elder, and was born at Epworth in1703. In 1730, while at Oxford University, he and his brother,. CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. _? ~^~71e77ther students, formed themselves into a society forthe purpose of mutual edification in religious exercis
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. Wesley, founder of Wesleyan Methodism, was theson of Samuel Wesley the elder, and was born at Epworth in1703. In 1730, while at Oxford University, he and his brother,. CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. _? ~^~71e77ther students, formed themselves into a society forthe purpose of mutual edification in religious exercises, bosingular an association excited considerable notice, ^damongother nicknames bestowed upon the members that of Method-ists was applied to then,. Mr. Wesley, With some others,chiefly Moravians, went to Geor-gia, in America, in 1735, witha view of converting the getting involved in somedifficulty, he returned to Eng-land, where Whitfields preach-ing was producing considerableexcitement. The same year,1738, was marked by a greatreligious change in the mind ofWesley and by his visit to theMoravian .settlement at llorrn-hut. In the following year hecommenced itinerant preachingsand gathered many followers. ihe lurches being shot against him, he ,— mcctong-houses in London, Bristol, and other place. For «*ne bmeheWM „,„„.,, with Whitfield; but diflerenoee arising reepectag 11, nominated according to their r, tye
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