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 . trusted , the curate of the parish, a small-minded man, wrote a letter com-plaining that these conventicles, as hecalled them, were doing harm to the reg-ular services of the church. The termconventicle had a degree of odium at-tached to it which was certain to vex sostrict a High Churchman as Mr. Wesley,and he
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 . trusted , the curate of the parish, a small-minded man, wrote a letter com-plaining that these conventicles, as hecalled them, were doing harm to the reg-ular services of the church. The termconventicle had a degree of odium at-tached to it which was certain to vex sostrict a High Churchman as Mr. Wesley,and he wrote a second letter in termsstill stronger than the first. But hiswife, nothing daunted, refused to discon-tinue the services unless he should pos-itively forbid her; for it was a matter ofconscience with her not to let slip thisopportunity of doing good. This, hap-pily, ended the matter. It is worthy ofnotice that Mrs. Wesley was influencedin her course of conduct by an accountshe had read of the good work effectedby Danish missionaries. This is, per-haps, the first of the cosmopolitan in-fluences, numerous afterward, whichtouched the life of her son. At the time this incident happened theeldest son, Samuel, was at school inLondon, and the younger boys, John and. PALACE RUINS, LINCOLN. 38 The Illustrated History of Methodism.
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