Show to T lit tomb july 11 the faist band of pilgrims sent out by the epworth league to visit the tomb of john wesley sailed in the etruria today the members 0 the party are for the most part and their families aoth today carries more methodist ministers than any other ocean steamer has ever conveyed at on time the party will land at liverpool and will be carried by special train to london from london the party will g by special train to hoxie they will take car nages for epworth this historic i situated in lin about miles from london it way that susannah wesley founded the firby acworth league the a prolific stock susannah the mother of chariei and john was the youngest of a family of twenty four children and wa berceli the mother of en the year was thought iho moat appropriate for the pilgrimage because it is the anniversary of the death of john wea ley standing ganeath the historic treba under the ahado of which tie used to preach to the colliers the pilgrims w 11 fittingly commemorate hia life and work the points are marked where the Wes loys were mobbed and stoned the epworth rectory has been preserved intact the idea of a pilgrimage to in the brain of key jamas T dockins of the boston Unive raily less than two yeara ago v ban the convention of a methodist society known as the epworth league was held in cleveland dr docking suggested Bug the and outlined a plan for it As a in nearly arery community there methodist are formed leagues had been started for the of sending one of their mem arri to join the party |