The history of Methodism . Airs. Fletcher,resulted in a wonderful revival, the society of five hundredmembers being doubled, to the great delight of Wesleyspreachers, whom Mrs. Fletcher describes as simple piousmen who respect that command, In honor preferring oneanother. Henry Moore tells us that three years later the fivehundred converts were proving faithful. Familiarity withFletcher did not lessen this influence, as all his friends all observed the perpetual doxology of his counte-nance. A glow as of some reflected altar fire which restedon his face, whether in silence or in s
The history of Methodism . Airs. Fletcher,resulted in a wonderful revival, the society of five hundredmembers being doubled, to the great delight of Wesleyspreachers, whom Mrs. Fletcher describes as simple piousmen who respect that command, In honor preferring oneanother. Henry Moore tells us that three years later the fivehundred converts were proving faithful. Familiarity withFletcher did not lessen this influence, as all his friends all observed the perpetual doxology of his counte-nance. A glow as of some reflected altar fire which restedon his face, whether in silence or in speech. When he 944 British Methodism preached to the Huguenot refugees in the French Church atDublin some of his Irish hearers were asked, Why did yougo to hear him when you could not understand a word hesaid? They replied, We went to look at him ; for heavenseemed to beam from his countenance. Canon Liddon, inhis Some Elements of Religion, thinks it not too much tosay that prayer has even physical effects. The countenance. EDWARD JACKSON. THOMAS RUTHERFORD. The preachers in Dublin at the time of Fletchers visit. of a Fra Angelico reflects his spirit no less than does his art;the bright eye, the pure, elevated expression, speak for them-selves. ... To have lived in spirit on Mount Tabor duringthe years of a long life is to have caught in its closing hourssome rays of the glory of the transfiguration. But longbefore the closing hours of a life all too short Fletchers facewas radiant with the beauty of the Lord his God. The open secret of his illuminated countenance was his The Secret of Fletchers Power 945 habit of secret prayer and the spiritual exercise, recollec-tions, of which he himself said, It makes the soul all eye,all ear. The Rev. Joshua Gilpin, in his introduction to thetranslation of Fletchers French poem, La Grace et la Nature,says that in times of uncommon distress he continued wholenights in prayer, and that part of the wall against whichhe was accustomed to kneel
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