Show JOHN TOEY IT ie ano hundred years today to day since the death of JOTO WESLEY the great reformer and the event is being quite generally observed by bors of the church which he founded was a gibat searcher after truth and he devoted bis life very assiduously to brightening the darkened notions of mankind regarding religion ho was bom at epsworth england june 16 1703 and graduated with honors from oxford in hie twenty second year ho worked in the ministry of the church of england for a number of years and be camo a priest in 1720 he soon afterwards becaro imbued with the necessity of reform in religious mat tors and set about to accomplish acom it his efforts were met with sneers and derision and in 1735 he and his brother went on a mission among the indians in georgia on board the slow sailing vessel bound for the new wor d fell in with bamo bomo Moravia ns and became converted to their faith he preformed a two years mission among the of the south and sometime after his return to england he had some difficulty with the Moravia ns and forsook them he then commenced laboring for himself and laid the foundation stone of the methodist church at bristol in 1740 ho taught were quite in advance of the times and the early followers of the religion met with much opposition wesler did not claim for his chuch a complete organization and he doubted whether the church of christ in its fullness could be found on earth but tie sought to better the religious condition of mankind and in thia he succeeded |