The history of Methodism . 36 Edward Jackson , • 944 Thomas Rutherford 944 Mary Fletcher Memorial Wesleyan Church, Leytonstone— 950 Fletcher Memorial Chapel and College, Lausanne 952 Chapter Head, England and America 953 The Port of Pill, near Bristol 954 Rev. Thomas Vasey, age 36 965 Rev. Richard Whatcoat 965 Rev. Thomas Coke 965 Dr. Cokes Parchment • • 967 Rev. James Creighton 969 Bishop Lowth 97° The Three Preachers Ordained by Wesley in City RoadChapel, 1785 : Rev. Joseph Taylor, Rev. Thomas Hanby, Rev. John Pawson 973 Protest of the Trustees of the New Room, Bristol, 976 The Licens
The history of Methodism . 36 Edward Jackson , • 944 Thomas Rutherford 944 Mary Fletcher Memorial Wesleyan Church, Leytonstone— 950 Fletcher Memorial Chapel and College, Lausanne 952 Chapter Head, England and America 953 The Port of Pill, near Bristol 954 Rev. Thomas Vasey, age 36 965 Rev. Richard Whatcoat 965 Rev. Thomas Coke 965 Dr. Cokes Parchment • • 967 Rev. James Creighton 969 Bishop Lowth 97° The Three Preachers Ordained by Wesley in City RoadChapel, 1785 : Rev. Joseph Taylor, Rev. Thomas Hanby, Rev. John Pawson 973 Protest of the Trustees of the New Room, Bristol, 976 The License of the New Room, Bristol 978 Charles Wesleys Protest 978 Robert Gambles Certificate as a Public Preacher 979 Certificate of Robert Gamble as Elder 98° Interior of City Road Chapel 983 Study in Wesleys House 984 Wesleys House, City Road, London 985 Plan of First Floor of John Wesleys House in City Road 986 John Wesley 9&7 Furniture which Belonged to John Wesley 99° Wesleys Chapel, City Road, London 991 viii. I LOO*. UPON ALL THE WORLD AS MY CHAPTER LIV Facing the Mobs Courage of the Wesleys.—Riots in Cornwall.—Vanquished MobCaptains.—Avast, Lads! Avast!—Strange Reasons for theRiots.—The Violence of the Clergy. IT was John Wesleys rule, confirmed, he says, by experi-ence, always to look a mob in the face. An inde-scribable dignity in his bearing, a light in his eyes, anda spiritual influence pervading his whole personality oftenoverawed and captured the very leaders of the riots. Cornwall vied with Staffordshire for preeminence in brutalviolence. The whole male population found training for thisin the custom of church ale, which encouraged Baccha-nalian feasts under the patronage of the clergy, and wasproductive, as one old writer admits, of drunkenness,lasciviousness, vain disports of minstrelsy, dancing, and dis-orderly night watchings. The sport of hurling, too, wascarried on with a violence utterly reckless of limb or wreckers on the c
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