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Show IN MEMOfir OPJOHH WESLEY. T. a-aeond tf March UTaalb. Centan.UI I Ul ll.alli. Wflry li a great eiainple of the In-flurnce In-flurnce vrlilch a hlj-lilr e.luciie.1 tttntle-man tttntle-man can acqulro over the poor and lg. norant tthcn tlirrfcel that ha l eletntcil to their welfare. Ills life U a confutation confuta-tion of the Idea that learning and refinement refine-ment unfit ono for ile-illng with the lemlr. The clilef fact of 111. Ilfo Is that lie, an Oifunl Jon, sacrificed hla career In order to nrcach I lie gol tu llio nr-j. leclcd rioor of Ilnglawl at a lime when eiicli a cemrso made a man an onteast from tcllte eorletjr. Ono result of thU sacrMro waa that hla personal will grew to Im u law to tlm llmnuiii.il who lUtcned to hlj Instruction. Mo c atraonllnnry ! camothe rower lie wlel 1,1 tluitS-mtliey, tlio Jwct laureate, attrlbnlca hla career to i rsonal ambition, lint an nmUtlom nun Mould ncTr bare selected em h a tw1 to fame, uor doe nnjr ono ascribe to hlui other than tho moat mmlfu.li tnotltme, Wcsto waa bum Juno S3, KOJ. Ho waa a boii of the learned anil ITllr rector of Fpwortb, Lincolnshire, Samuel Wenlojr. He waa of gentle bio!, a rlnt dear to the Lnglltli brut. Ilia father faiiillr ran be traced lack throngh a long line of liouorablo an-ccstor. an-ccstor. On hit tnotlurV sldo he waa n,ullo dearly connected with the nobility, an 1 for a time, although the p. rvmal rein, tlontlilp waa distant, the f unity of the Dukeof Wellington bore Ihoaaiiio name. Both hla fat hi r an I mother ha 1 been from thrlr rally da) a lueinbr rif tho Church of tljulana, ytt liU two srandfathrra and hit fatlier a irrandfalhtr, alt of wliom wcrolfamed inlnUtrra, wro amonjthe cicrgy jfoM from their lining In tM) for re fiulnic to confonn to the Natloinl church aa reratablUhe.1 bytliarlealt. It aerina natural to in that the dean nd-ant nd-ant of audi uiin ahoul 1 be n relhrloui reformer, re-former, but to thuso llTlnjatthetlmo tho Inherltanco mora likely nared that of loverly. 1'or ono of the plnclioa of Hamucl Wnley'a rnreworn Ilfo waa tu n gTilarly aurply the 10 a ) ear on which hladejlitutemotherllred. Tol lacredlt, bo It aald. this aunjwrt nuer fallnl her. John Wwley'e mother, Suaiuna v. ley, irare her children n tlwrough rellg. loiu training. The lettera the wroto to ber torn alter they left home are not only modela of nOluloua ad rice, bnt line f-lmena of Eniillih jmv. Krorn her her aon undoubtedly Inhrritril hla do-clilon do-clilon of character and hla ndinlnUtratiro ability, alio la inort jaitly callol "Tlio Mother of JIi thodlim." llut drlng her all her duo, acant Juallco, 1 think, haa been done to the father. "Old Hun Wetley," aa for arnne n-oaon ho haa a). waya been called, wai more than a nan of porta. No ono can nad hla Ilfo with, out feellnir that he lud the fire of jenlue within him. I ahonld not aro tu ko tliroush hlj ponderona 'lihtnrjr of the 01 land NeWTeaUmcnt Attempteil In cno,"bnt hla letta ahow the man. Tiey bnatho an undaunted i!rlt, no matter what mlifortunea they record. Tlio nearly forty jiarahoajunt in tho half aavnw iarlli of lljiwotth, from louj until hla death In 1733, were J i are of toll mil aorrow, lllscarcawrrouuiloubtodly liiircaaiJ by hla iuiirMtlcaltmu, but mi man unler the miiio cundltlona coull hae any oilier than a troubled Ilfo. Ilo waa not, aa aorao aeem to think him, n Micawlier, throwing off care from lick of thought and exiiUninco of animal apinta. Jiiacourairowuabomof mtrgy ct mind an 1 alrum; rellirloiM fot ling. o alwuja think of John Wctley aa a great admlnlitrator, foreetful thatn minion tiro muat havo Uinhldunlcrhla calm 1'itcrlor. ThU tialtod courage, If wo can ao dMde aniu'i qiulltloi, he do. rl i J from hla father. When at Oxford In 1710 John with hla brother Clmlca and their coniuiulona wi r ridiculed in tho"Iolyaub." OllMr. Wmley wrote totheuu "I hate Iho hlgbtat mm to bleu (loil Uutt he, haa girn luo tio aona togelher at Oiford to w horn he Im gli en Rrace and courage to turn Iho war n;.iin.t tho world and the dull." Ho lull lili hindurun bit aon Clurlea'huid wlun dylug. an 1 aald, "The Chrltlan f.iltl. will aurelyrulroln thla klrunloini jon aball ko It, I aball not." Dr. Ucorfo A. Croukt in Christian at Work. |
