The history of Methodism . away as a soldier. Notpossessing Nelsons physical strength, he sank under brutalcruelty, and Wesley says, God signed his discharge andcalled him up to his eternal home. Wesley wrote of himin his Journal: Servant of God, well done ! Well hast thou foughtThe better fight; who single hast maintained,Against revolted multitudes, the causeOf God ; in word, mightier than they in arms. It was a favorite device of their enemies to charge theMethodists with vagrancy, and then, under the law of thosefeverish days, when the French and the Pretender were na-tional bogies, to pre
The history of Methodism . away as a soldier. Notpossessing Nelsons physical strength, he sank under brutalcruelty, and Wesley says, God signed his discharge andcalled him up to his eternal home. Wesley wrote of himin his Journal: Servant of God, well done ! Well hast thou foughtThe better fight; who single hast maintained,Against revolted multitudes, the causeOf God ; in word, mightier than they in arms. It was a favorite device of their enemies to charge theMethodists with vagrancy, and then, under the law of thosefeverish days, when the French and the Pretender were na-tional bogies, to press them as soldiers. Attempts wereeven made to arrest the Wesleys in this way, as we haveseen, and Thomas Maxfield, John Downes, Peter Jaco, aswell as Nelson, were thus forcibly pressed, and ChristopherHopper, Thomas Olivers, the hymn writer, and Robert Rob-erts, all had narrow escapes from the same fate. The condition of the English army in the days of George IIwas wretched in the extreme. Tramps, loafers, and jail birds. DRAWN B* J 0 WOODWARD. AFTER PHOTOGRAPHS. 1 HE GR WE OF THE FIRST METHODIST MARTYR. I HI OLD CHAPEL AT HAY, THE SCENE OF LHE MARTYRDOM. John Haime, Dragoon 527 were pressed into the ranks. General Wolfe, in one of hisletters, says that if he stays much longer with his regiment,he will become perfectly corrupt, for the officers are looseand profligate and the men are very devils. The generalconfirms the dark picture given by John Nelson. Of thegarrison town of Portsmouth, Wolfe says, Disorderlysoldiers are collected here; . . dirty, drunken, insolentscoundrels, improved by the hellish nature of the place,where every kind of corruption, immorality, and looseness iscarried to excess. Yet very early in the history of Methodism we find its con-fessors in the army. John Haime was one of these. Hisportrait, taken when he was seventy, puzzled Southey, whosays: What organs a craniologist might have detectedunder his brown wig it is impossible to say, but Lavater him-s
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