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 . MRS. SARAH WESLEY, WIFE OF KHV CHARLES WESLEY, 160 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF TRETWR, BRECKNOCKSHIRE. a Welshman, born in Montgomeryshirein the year 1725. L,eft an orphan whenquite young, he was religiously broughtup by a relative; but, falling amongdissolute companions, he got the nameof being the worst boy who
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 . MRS. SARAH WESLEY, WIFE OF KHV CHARLES WESLEY, 160 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF TRETWR, BRECKNOCKSHIRE. a Welshman, born in Montgomeryshirein the year 1725. L,eft an orphan whenquite young, he was religiously broughtup by a relative; but, falling amongdissolute companions, he got the nameof being the worst boy who had beenknown in the country-side for thirtyyears. At the age of eighteen he*wasapprenticed to a shoemaker. Some timeafterward he left the neighborhood inbad odor, and removed to Shrewsbury,where he continued his profligate ways,with brief intervals of repentance. Fin-ally, being in the city of Bristol, hewent to hear Whitefield preach. Thetext chosen was: Is not this a branchplucked out of the fire? The effectwas powerful and immediate. Oliversgave himself up to reading devoutbooks and to prayer; and so constantlywas he on his knees begging the divinemercy that he made himself temporarilylame. A request that he might be admittedto the Bristol Society was not favorablyreceived, and a period of discouragement,amounting almost to distraction, fol-lowed. A
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