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 . of a piousman, not a Methodist, whobrought him into an awak-ened state. The conscious-ness of a spiritual changecame to him in his fathersbarn, when he was prayingthere with a young compan-ion. Prayer became an ha-bitual exercise with him, andhe began to read with inter-est the sermons of Cennickand of Whitefield. He alsose
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 . of a piousman, not a Methodist, whobrought him into an awak-ened state. The conscious-ness of a spiritual changecame to him in his fathersbarn, when he was prayingthere with a young compan-ion. Prayer became an ha-bitual exercise with him, andhe began to read with inter-est the sermons of Cennickand of Whitefield. He alsoseized every opportunity oflistening to the stirring ad-dresses of Ryland, Stilling-fleat, Venn, and other ear-nest divines who were invited to preachin West Bromwich church, where the in-cumbent sympathized with the evangel-ical revival. It was at this time that hebegan asking his mother who theseMethodists were of whom every cuetalked. The name had long been familiarto him, for, when quite a boy, he hadbeen dubbed by his schoolmaster theMethodist parson. His mother spokeso favorably of them that he made a pointof going to Wednesbury to acquaint him-self personally with their work. It wasin this very town of Wednesbury thatthe mob had, in ;, attacked John Wes-.
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