The history of Methodism . eir eyes opened, backsliders recovered, andmany saints much edified. She testifies to a remarkablework following the labors of Robert Roberts, who was mightyin the Scriptures, and Thomas Hanby, afterward president ofthe Conference. This good work was seriously checked by a pamphletagainst Wesley written by James Hervey, mangled and add-ed to by the antinomian Cudworth, and republished with abitter preface by Erskine. As the result of the calumnies itcontained many, says Hopper, who have often declaredthe great profit they have received under our ministry wereinduced
The history of Methodism . eir eyes opened, backsliders recovered, andmany saints much edified. She testifies to a remarkablework following the labors of Robert Roberts, who was mightyin the Scriptures, and Thomas Hanby, afterward president ofthe Conference. This good work was seriously checked by a pamphletagainst Wesley written by James Hervey, mangled and add-ed to by the antinomian Cudworth, and republished with abitter preface by Erskine. As the result of the calumnies itcontained many, says Hopper, who have often declaredthe great profit they have received under our ministry wereinduced to leave us. My point, says Wesley at this time, was still to go straightforward in the work whei-eto I amcalled. Notwithstanding controversial difficulties, and the slow-progress of the societies, Wesley was favorably impressed by 740 British Methodism the religious seriousness of the Scotch character. On theway to Strathbogie he says: The whole family at our inn,eleven or twelve in number, gladly joined with us in prayer. A CONTEMPORARY COPPERPLATE. ROBERT ROBERTS. ? Mighty in the Scriptures. at night. Indeed, so they did at every inn where we lodged ;for, among all the sins they have imported from England,the Scots have not yet learned, at least not the common peo-ple, to scoff at sacred things. He found the roads much worse than in England, and theinns much better. He had more than one narrow escapefrom death. Accompanied by Duncan Wright, he attempted At the General Assembly 741 to cross the sands to Solway Frith before the sea was comein. ... In ten minutes Duncan Wright was embogged;however, the horse plunged on, and got through. I was in-clined to turn back; but Duncan telling me I need only go alittle to the left, I did so, and sunk at once to my horsesshoulders. He sprung up twice, and twice sunk again, eachtime deeper than before. At the third plunge he threw meon one side, and Ave both made shift to scramble out. I wascovered with fine, soft mud from my feet t
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