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 . speeches at theannual visitation of St. Mary de CryptsSchool, which he was attending, he re-ceived a small sum in reward for hisservices, and with this bought the manual. At the age of fifteen Whitefield beggedto be removed from school, there beingthen no prospect of his proceeding to theuniversity More instruction, he fear
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 . speeches at theannual visitation of St. Mary de CryptsSchool, which he was attending, he re-ceived a small sum in reward for hisservices, and with this bought the manual. At the age of fifteen Whitefield beggedto be removed from school, there beingthen no prospect of his proceeding to theuniversity More instruction, he feared,would merely stand in the way of hisbecoming a good tradesman. And sowe find him, in blue jeans, serving alebehind the counter at the Bell Inn, nowbecome the property of a married intervals of leisure allowed him he devoted to the reading of romances,which he exchanged, after a time, forthe devotional pages of Thomas a. Kem-pis. He also busied himself in the com-position of several sermons. Finding it difficult to agree with hissister-in-law, he gave up his position ofcommon drawer, and went for a shorttime to live with his mother. And then,having heard, through a servitor at Pem-broke, of a possible opening in thatcollege, he returned to the grammar. JOHN POTTKR, BISHOP OF OXFORD, Who John ami Charles Wesley as Deacons and, latir, John Wesley as Presbyter. From the Original fainting, by iandci hank. Belonging to Bishop John //. Iiimnf. school to prepare himself to enter theuniversity. These two years of pre-paratory study were spent in an exem-plary way, and had a marked influenceon his future career. He was careful inall the public and private exercises ofreligion, and, by the high consistency ofhis conduct, exerted a salutary influenceon the other scholars. Even before his matriculation at Ox-ford Whitefield had heard of the band olyoung students who were endeavoring, 56 The Illustrated History of Methodism. like himself, to live by rule and
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