Show RARE OLD DOCUMENT original copy of tile the rules of the methodists discovered IN ST LOUIS the circular is dated 1743 and the paper is falling to rincea with its weight of by tho the two wesleye Wc We who were the tha fathers of methodism rules bid liquor drinking except in 11 cases ot of extreme necessity ori oriell mi L of the name 1 st louis dec C G an copy of tile the fleat printed 1 iules hujcs for the society or of tho the people called methodists was thed today in this city and as it was published hy by john find and charley wesley over their own signatures in 1734 and contains tile the nucleus or the literature or of the church it Is hi a most interesting document not only to followers of oc that falth faith but to students of 0 religious history the th circular is of four pages and Is falling to pieces with age ace and handling the paper imper Is yellow and the print unreadable in places fro 01 the stains of 0 time the first pura graphs are as foll follows oNvil in the latter end of oc the year 1733 1739 eight or ton persons came to london who appeared to be deeply convinced oi 0 sin bin anil and cat neatly groan ing fur for I 1 ledeme client p alon they desired as did two or three or indie the next do dm that I 1 would spend some horne time with thern tit in and advise them how to hoc flee tile the wrath to comi come which they saw continually hanging over their heads that we ve inight have more time for tills this great work I 1 appointed a day when they night fill all come together from thenceforward ward they di billil I every week viz VIA on thursday in alir tit evening to these and as many as desired d alred to join with them their number nu nitter daly daily I 1 krivo anve those from flito to time N which I 1 judged most moat needful tor for them and ana we always conch concluded mod our meetings or of sult ablo to several second ahls was tile rise ot of till the united q cl clety My first in london mod and then in other ill places aces fluch a hockey it 14 none lions other than EL a company ot of men baving tile form find and seeking the power of godliness united in order to pray together Kether tu to receive tile the w word 0 rd of exhortation hor tatton und to watch over one another in love that they may help belp each caell other tn rt work out their salvation third that it 11 may in ay iy bo be more easily arned oboy aro are indeed working out their salvation each society biety Is 18 divided into companies called classes accord liiK to their to ic places or of abline are about twelve persons in every class one ot of whom is abtil d tile hie le leader desider sider tle tile rules tor for the use of those loaders leaders are arc then set forth together to with a list of tile orcas occasions lons of temptation that beset mankind prominent nl among the latter H N drun drunkenness drunken kennes nesi buying or sell liquors or drinking then them unless in cases of 0 extreme necessity although most of the pronouns in the document are in the first person sunru lar it Ps ll signed J C and C wesley the date Is may 1 1743 and at the bottom Is the imprint printed by tile the cordeaux 14 city road noad london it was just after this date that the society of people called methodists obtained possession of their ural first house houpo ol of worship it was an old cannon factory near the present site of Fins ainsbury finsbury bury square in london lm doii and the wileys lived in sit an old house at the rear they conducted conduct od a sort of religious 01 as book bookstore dore a also M in one of the rooms of 0 the foundry the alie church was always known as the Foun foundry dey and was never more pretentious than a 0 bare walled comfortless fort less room with rough wooden benches upon which sat pat tile the congregation in sepa Be ratty groups ot of men and women nomen the exact regularity ot of their lives says EL a chronicle occasioned a young gentleman Bent leman of Christ christchurch church college if til say here Is a new set of up alluding 1 it Is paid mild to somo some ancient physicians who ito were so called in this manner the church was founded and the immense organization of united worshipers which we havo have today came to be called methodists |