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 . ,delivered, as he remarks in his journal, ata time when churches were in existence. Although the Bristol Newgate hadbeen closed to Whitefield, the prohibi-tion does not seem to have extended tohis successor. It was while preachingin this prison, shortly after his arrival inBristol, that those extraordinary mani-festations t
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 . ,delivered, as he remarks in his journal, ata time when churches were in existence. Although the Bristol Newgate hadbeen closed to Whitefield, the prohibi-tion does not seem to have extended tohis successor. It was while preachingin this prison, shortly after his arrival inBristol, that those extraordinary mani-festations took place which became socharacteristic of the Methodist move-ment, and were so puzzling to do not read of such occurrences inWhitefields journal. Passionate as washis oratory, intense as was the impres-sion he produced upon huge masses ofhearers, the whole effect may be likenedto a breeze passing over a field of cornand swaying it hither and thither. Butwith Wesleys oratory, far more dispas-sionate, clear-cut, and matter-of-fact, theresults were cpiite different. Convictionstruck the individual, like a knife or bul-let, and threw him into an agony thatwas usually replaced in a short space byan ecstasy of joy To quote the exactwords of Wesley s journal:. jySMONU DENE, NE\VCASTI,E-U1UX-TY_\1, 110 The Illustrated History of Methodism.
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