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 . , where hefound the people ill-mannered and de-graded. Next morning at sunrise hewas speaking to a few hundreds, towhom he announced his intention ofpreaching again in the evening. Whenat five oclock he took his stand on ahill-top, thehill-side was covered with aneager throng. So deep was the im-pression made, that the poor
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 . , where hefound the people ill-mannered and de-graded. Next morning at sunrise hewas speaking to a few hundreds, towhom he announced his intention ofpreaching again in the evening. Whenat five oclock he took his stand on ahill-top, thehill-side was covered with aneager throng. So deep was the im-pression made, that the poor peoplewould hardly suffer him to quit the placeout of pure love for him. This was aneventful year in the annals of witnessed the planting of many so-cieties in Somersetshire, Warwickshire,Nottinghamshire, and other counties inEngland; and henceforward the workgrew apace. It is also to be rememberedas the year in which Handels exquisiteMessiah was produced in London, andelectrified a people usually not emotionalinto a spontaneous act of religious hom-age. When the Hallelujah Choruswas rendered, the whole audience rose upas a unit in hushed attention—a decorouscustom still kept up. On the first Sunday of the new yearWesley visited Kpworth, where he had,. liDlNBURGH IN UUSLKVS TIMli—THH OLD HIGH SCHOOL. 112 The Illustrated History of Methodism shortly before, been denied the use ofthe church; and at five in the morning,and again at eight oclock, he preachedto audiences gathered from the wholecountryside. The spirit shown by thecurate in charge, a Mr. Romley, was
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