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 . igh and low, rich and poor, all gladto hear the Word preached. In the closing years of his life the un-selfish devotion which Wesley had shownin the promotion of real religion through-out the whole kingdom had disarmed allopposition. I am become, he writesfrom Ireland in 17S5, I know not how,an honorable man. The scandal of
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 . igh and low, rich and poor, all gladto hear the Word preached. In the closing years of his life the un-selfish devotion which Wesley had shownin the promotion of real religion through-out the whole kingdom had disarmed allopposition. I am become, he writesfrom Ireland in 17S5, I know not how,an honorable man. The scandal of thecross is ceased; and all the kingdom,rich and poor, Papists and Protestants,behave with courtesy; nay, with seeminggood-will. On the last page of hisjournal, under the date October JO, 170O,occurs this entry: The minister (ofDiss, near Scoleton) was willing I shouldpreach in the church; but feared offend-ing the bishop, who, going up to London,was within a few miles of the a gentleman asking the bishopwhether he had any objection to it, wasanswered, None at all. I think thischurch is one of the largest in thiscounty (of Norfolk). I suppose it hasnot been so filled these hundred is a significant entry, made less thanfive months before his WEST FRONT OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. The noble west front of Lincoln Cathedral, unsurpassed for architectural beauty in Europe. (1141 CHAPTER VII. METHODISM ORGANIZED. rT WAS at Bristol that John Wesleyfinally and definitely became a homemissionary. A home missionary withinthe Church of England he wished ever toremain, and desired nothing so little asto promote institutions that were notunder her aegis. And yet circumstancesproved too strong for him. From thetime he became a field-preacher it wasevident that a schism was destined,sooner or later, to take place. Hisbrother Samuel lived just long enoughto understand how inevitable was thisresult. His brother Charles, who sur-vived Samuel nearly fifty years, saw,some year
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