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 . hnson, who enteredthe college in the year 1728, and spentfourteen continuous months within itswalls. Hard as was his lot in many re-spects, he had always a good word to sayfor his college, and remained throughoutlife a devoted partisan of Oxford. Theother was John Moore, who rose to beArchbishop of Canterbury. Pembroke Coll
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 . hnson, who enteredthe college in the year 1728, and spentfourteen continuous months within itswalls. Hard as was his lot in many re-spects, he had always a good word to sayfor his college, and remained throughoutlife a devoted partisan of Oxford. Theother was John Moore, who rose to beArchbishop of Canterbury. Pembroke College, which is one of thesmaller Oxford foundations, nestles inunder the shadow of the lordly ChristChurch. Until the days of James I. itwas known as Broadgates Hall. Thechancellor of the university at the time,who gave it the name, was the scholarlyand accomplished William Herbert, Karlof Pembroke, a nephew of Sir Philip Sid-ney. He it was to whom the editors ofShakespeare s works dedicated, in 1623,the famous first folio. Now the collegeis chiefly associated with the names ofSamuel Johnson and George room which the former occupied,situated over the gateway in the secondstory, is still shown to visitors. Johnsonused to speak very warmly of his old tu-. quadranglf; of merton coi^ege;. The Illustrated History of Methodism. 55 tor at Pembroke. Whenever a youngman becomes Jordens pupil, he re-marked, he becomes his son. GeorgeWhitefield had also a kindly word forhis tutor, who had behaved to himquite like a father. The early life of George Whitefieldwas passed under no very favorable con-ditions. He was a west country man,hailing from the ancient city of Glouces-ter. In this city, toward the close ofthe year 1714, he was born at the BellInn, of which his father was quite young he lost his father;and the second marriage of his mother,when George was a boy of ten, provedunhappy. He speaks of his boyhood asa time when he was distinctly a child ofsin, hat
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