The history of Methodism . IndiaIslands are rent from the crown, there will not grow oneear of corn less in Great Britain. We shall still have thenecessaries of life, and, what is more, the Gospel, and lib-erty to hear it. If the great springs of trade and wealth arecut off4, good men will bear that loss without much sorrow;for springs of wealth are always springs of luxury, which, ksooner or later, destroy the empires corrupted by good may come out of our losses. I wish you maysee it in England. People on the continent imagine theysee it already in the English on their travels, w
The history of Methodism . IndiaIslands are rent from the crown, there will not grow oneear of corn less in Great Britain. We shall still have thenecessaries of life, and, what is more, the Gospel, and lib-erty to hear it. If the great springs of trade and wealth arecut off4, good men will bear that loss without much sorrow;for springs of wealth are always springs of luxury, which, ksooner or later, destroy the empires corrupted by good may come out of our losses. I wish you maysee it in England. People on the continent imagine theysee it already in the English on their travels, who are saidto behave with more wisdom and less haughtiness than theyused to do. Four years later Fletcher turned social reformer, and wrote a powerful appeal to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John Cavendish, on National Grievances, their Causes nd Remedies, in which he draws a terrible picture of the isery caused by drunkenness, and begs for a suppression of any paltry public houses, which are the bane of the CHAPTER CIVJohn Fletcher, the Saint Striking Unanimity.—Genial Manhood and Childlikeness.—ASylvan Scene.—Angel or Man?—The Perpetual Doxologyof His Countenance.—Seraphic Devotion.—Equilibrium ofCharacter. WRITERS of all schools agree in regarding JohnFletcher as a saint of the highest type. Ryle,the evangelical bishop, is struck with this agree-ment on all sides that he was permanently and peculiarlya most holy man, a saint indeed, a living epistle of Christ,whose character stands above all praise. Canon Overton,the High Churchman, writes, Never, perhaps, since the riseof Christianity has the mind which was in Christ Jesus beenmore faithfully copied than it was in the Vicar of , who, as Dr. Tholuck remarks, never praises aMethodist without haughtiness, reveals unwonted spiritualsusceptibility as he describes this man of rare talents andrarer virtue. No age or country has ever produced a manof more fervent piety or more perfect char
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