. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... A/ A. John Wesley JOHN WESLEY MY horse was very lame, and my head did ache what occurred I here avow is truth—let each man accountfor it as he will. Suddenly I thought, • Cannot God heal man or beastas He will? Immediately my weariness and headache ceased; andmy horse was no longer lame. —WESLEYS JOURNAL. GREAT REFORMERS NCE in a speech on The In-■ crease of Population, Ed-sr^* naund Burke intimated his* s^ sympathy with Malthus, andamong other interesting datamade note that SusannaWesley was the twenty-fourth child of her p
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... A/ A. John Wesley JOHN WESLEY MY horse was very lame, and my head did ache what occurred I here avow is truth—let each man accountfor it as he will. Suddenly I thought, • Cannot God heal man or beastas He will? Immediately my weariness and headache ceased; andmy horse was no longer lame. —WESLEYS JOURNAL. GREAT REFORMERS NCE in a speech on The In-■ crease of Population, Ed-sr^* naund Burke intimated his* s^ sympathy with Malthus, andamong other interesting datamade note that SusannaWesley was the twenty-fourth child of her , however, neglected tostate how many sisters andbrothers Susanna had whowere younger than herself,and also what would have been the result on churchhistory had the parents of Susanna named theirtwenty-third child Omega. John Wesley was the fifteenth child in a family ofnineteen. And yet the mother did her own work, thuseliminating the servant girl problem, and found timeto preach better sermons to larger congregations thandid her husband. Four of Susannas children becamefamous—^John, Charles, Samuel and Martha,John rebuked and challenged the smug, self-satisfiedand formal religion of the time; had every church doorlocked against him; sympathized with the AmericanColonies in their struggle for freedom; and founded adenomination, which to-day is secon
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