Wesley and his friends: illustrating the religious spirit of their times . e was re-moved from a very honourable place which he 20 LIFE OF JOHN WESLEY. occupied in the kings service at London, andsuffered much, though far less than the othergrandfather of John Wesley. He continuedto preach until the year of his death, which oc-curred in the seventy-seventh year of his died after a long and painful sickness, ex-claiming with his latest breath, I shall besatib.^d! satisfied! 0 my dearest Jesus! Icome! It is an interesting fact, especially in con-nection with the biography which we arewrit
Wesley and his friends: illustrating the religious spirit of their times . e was re-moved from a very honourable place which he 20 LIFE OF JOHN WESLEY. occupied in the kings service at London, andsuffered much, though far less than the othergrandfather of John Wesley. He continuedto preach until the year of his death, which oc-curred in the seventy-seventh year of his died after a long and painful sickness, ex-claiming with his latest breath, I shall besatib.^d! satisfied! 0 my dearest Jesus! Icome! It is an interesting fact, especially in con-nection with the biography which we arewriting, that this distinguished man lived undergreat self-discipline. He drank only studied in a room at the top of his house,with the windows open and without fire, summerand winter. He had considerable income fromproperty he had inherited, besides his salary;but he set apart one tenth for benevolent pur-poses of all he received, before using a dollarin any other way. Such were some of the sources of ancestralinfluence in the character of the founder Wesleys Father. WESLEYS PARENTS. 21 CHAPTER II. WESLEYS PARENTS. Epworth, in England, is a small market-town, one hundred and ten miles northwest ofLondon, in Lincolnshire. It contained in Wes-leys day about two thousand inhabitants, whoseprincipal occupation was the raising and pre-paration of hemp and flax, and in manufactur-ing coarse articles out of those materials. Tothis village the Rev. Samuel Wesley, the fatherof John Wesley, removed in 1693. He becamethe rector of the church on an income of aboutfive hundred dollars. The house in whichhe first lived, though differing in style, some-what resembled a Western log-cabin of ourown country. It was built of timber andmud, plastered without, and thatched withstraw. Samuel Wesley, of whom we are now writ-ing, was about ten years old when his father,the first John Wesley, died. He had, eventhen, received from his learned father a goodbeginning of a knowledge of
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