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Show Roosevelt on John Wesley. " CHICAGO, June 18. In a special edition edi-tion of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, Ad-vocate, Issued to commemorate the bl-centennial of the birth of John Wesley, Wes-ley, a letter from President Roosevelt to the Methodist people of the United States appears. In it the President says: "To Americana the 200th anniversary anni-versary of the birth of John Wesley must have a peculiar interest, for It la In our own country that the great church which he founded has reached Its Jargest development; and the wonderful won-derful growth of Methodism has taken place during the period of our national life. The . Methodist congregations played a peculiar part in the .pioneer history of our country and it would be hard to overestimate what we owe to the early circuit riders no less than to their successors." |