The history of Methodism . shadows. It cannot be said that her Journalmakes no reference to the convulsions that filled so manyhearts with fear; but such references are very few, and be-tray no apprehension. In the last year of her life, the Water-loo year, 1815, an event occurred too near at hand which diddeeply disturb her, to the point of calling forth a solemnprotest. The curate newly appointed to Madeley insistedthat the Methodists of the parish must give up their connec-tion with the Church; he always thought it best for theChurch people and the people called Methodists to move indistinc
The history of Methodism . shadows. It cannot be said that her Journalmakes no reference to the convulsions that filled so manyhearts with fear; but such references are very few, and be-tray no apprehension. In the last year of her life, the Water-loo year, 1815, an event occurred too near at hand which diddeeply disturb her, to the point of calling forth a solemnprotest. The curate newly appointed to Madeley insistedthat the Methodists of the parish must give up their connec-tion with the Church; he always thought it best for theChurch people and the people called Methodists to move indistinct lines. The division resulting from this unwise resolve wasbitter to Mrs. Fletcher. Nothing cotdd shake her determi-nation to die among the people united to Mr. Wesley, with 908 British Methodism whom she had lived in fellowship for more than threescoreyears, but she had an inbred love for the Church of England,from which she was now in a manner banished by the harshact of its minister. I have always, she said, considered. FROM A COPPERPLATE. MRS. JOHN FLETCHER. myself a member of the Church, and so have the unitedfriends in Madeley. In some measure we are now pushedout! Fletchers saintly widow might well have been allowedto linger out her last days undisturbed by intolerant folly ofthis kind. Happily she was able to rest in the conviction Susanna Wesley and Mary Fletcher 909 that the Lord would order all, and to see in the continuedprosperity of his work a pledge that her trust was wellfounded. But this thing which befell in Madeley is worthyof notice, being a typical instance of the separation effectedin many a quiet parish, by clerical action, between Church-man and Methodist who had asked nothing better than stillto worship together as they had done of yore, but who, oncedivided, have never been reunited, and in human likelihoodnever will be. The writer from whom we have just quoted has pointedout the distinct types of Christian excellence presented bySusanna Wesley and Ma
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