| Show SIRE OF 01 CAREER OP OF JOHN W wedley ESLEY AND tt 1 thai that at a 1 sod bixl ixl III zt ZI uke I 1 I 1 hat f I 1 arr or 1 labar letter letti r the life and 1 per bality of john aley Vl loy ey the founder of ill III alwina be ef of interest an ad sill rat able rable sketch of this great lt lot Is by bev J kielley 1 johnson to munsey luuy a magazine to bich we war are indebted for this artl le mr sir johnson ay says aitu irakly rain loui akia akin to that of the hebrew prophets 1 delry cley anticipated the cat geat hu matti tarisa and 1 philanthropic more move meat moats of this gur atlon not only cell a peaking anil and writing of them but actually carrying them out before there easm an society ol tty he was out before there afta as a bible ocleta he lie as distributing bibles 1 before public or lending libraries were ere dreamed of or he had bad it 11 b bearl ra rise established in london ard bristol he lie opened dispensaries long before one sail an thought of ly by either hospital bof hoo pital or city aut bori ties life in su rance or perhaps more properly burial funds had a distinct place in his hi administration though such things were then almost unknown the pres ent build building and loan loin la Is but a slight alliance upon afana aich t established to help the they mem baro of u hk bb societies loci ettea john besey a as born in 1703 at epworth ahen hen he as 6 years old a fire in ing epworth rectory from which he as aved saved as by a miracle Int made a deep impression Impre ealon upon hs mind and undoubtedly pro deuced in him a seriousness which affected blowhole whole life at the age of 11 boung aley wits wa tent to the charterhouse school leaving there when 16 for corlet church oxford there the habits of the student wr were strung strong upon him and he boon became known as one of the most careful and accurate of scholars ech olare IN hen a little more than 30 years of age became he came to america intending 39 to deione to work amons among the tb colonists and indians lie remained in georgia two yeara and then returned to england N ith a JOHN WESLEY not unlike that ot of peter the hermit he entered upon a crusade cru eru eade ade the moat most remarkable la in anglish annals io no med medieval leal mint saint practiced sterner self denials nor tramped more relentlessly upon the fleshly dwire desires though a churchman fastidious in hie his recard for form forms roil anti ritual sen men sigive having liming in his veins blood re fined by generations ot of culture and so caal rank yet at the lail of duty he visited prisoner prisoners in their celle cells ho he ca tere the homes of the meet most sketched sr ret ched and abandoned in london be he takee takes lit tand stand in the midst of croft craded ded thoroughfare thoroughfares and calls loudly upon the people to repent he lifts up his voice at fairs and races and in the pre greence ence ot of howling bobr he travels mostly on horse horseback baek through every part of ot the kingdom everywhere pro claiming tte the new gospel with which lie be has imn instructed he visits scotland again and again on the same game errand of mercy be he labors in almost every birli tirli t a in ireland and anti with a counge aud fidelity nothing hurrah can call explain he his life la in this f orni of OPP altiOn was tried against him mill dams were let out sleeping la 14 torrente torrents down the street where he was ae holding service serf ce uell delta bere re tangled d irom church hurch t spires and public buildings to drown big his voice in their clim drunken fiddlers and ballad singers were hind cosine to go I 1 among the to whom be va was hand were played Utti peta wre blown drums bg battea taa that they were might distract dia tract aad and disturb bis big services played to him sailors to were elk him bui but les lea to maltreat anal treat h ui in pollee men se bribed to arrest him I 1 he I 1 VMS wass samek in tt face wit poked 1 with antones toa beaten to the gromad lit wu waa cuned at worn sworn at groaned at AIL nore chaa once a anad awed bull ft was umen into the fita I 1 where his ills sery leve 1 ero ore being held the tike of the house bhore be he 1411 ite Aed were broken the doors stayed vere were broken the hed in bad and the doors mob him bira with death again 1 and again he was arrested i elten clergymen clergy ding lo 10 the nea bat DO bohlae blodig daunted IN esley egley with th tou V of a R hero be faced nioba mob rod tham with the skill of 0 a trained lawyer be he stood afore t ami co coni mag compelling not on y his iss leaf but ohp re moet alpio hindlea vindication lot HN 1 relic oje ois zeal in no w acia is bated adair i f more mor than half bait a tnt nair t nt irv ir hf for hark bak i efty Mf ty on M than 4 M inflow mal r awry ry boot abr it IBM a day 4 his mis journ tin kent kyt with ona one carp care froni from 11 to 1790 IT are not of r irarra a enly duly lint irit rt hat but rev val the itman awa i lib s W which aich lip b HI HA ner fora ri r to i P alone w opa ha baro 0 tead I 1 37 a the afrim of on a T s it travois in rafn ren r fold cold beat heat t ta T throes h efta ir t i aed and trying to were hl atar eit aa 1 iron f afna u was a full ma inae wark for fop 6 ch churches archea la in Is e had bad preachers prea chera and da I 1 ILI tit birta ot of tw nation con 1 ab grantly looking to him for alvite an help then when we add I 1 to 0 all this o 0 the tact fact that he wrote edited edite d abridge abald abr ld ti and prepared tor for ah the press nearly 01 volumes ro luines tome some of them hem marvels ot at ability and scholarship it would see that he oust must have been more thia than ha hu man poetry mule music medicine aim almol everything IB in tact ac taro are included la in th 11 allt t of bli his published works and all thie this by a man who peat spent to 60 years a 4 an a itinerant minister traveling 11 hit 11 roe rue mor more than a quarter of a miles and preaching inc more th than Ser sermons MODS early in life he be upon course of plain simple living giving 11 to the poor every penny be he wall pare spare neiten hn his hi income wai as 0 a vear be he jived oa on 9 28 18 and gave away the ret rest next year he received but bis big living expense expenses remained ai before he had 32 to bestow on charity the fol folio loving 1 year he here re celled xa and ww wap able to give gild t th poor 2 thir rule he all through life hy BY his hi pen and by this tb eale sale of his books he earned more than every penny of which he be cave gave nay in an old foundry fonn dry a place once used by the english government for the th carting of cannon he established hu his first bondon church gathering to the opening about 70 member members thin this was WA the tint first building bull dInK opened for lietao dist preaching on alarca 2 1791 iq in the esth year of his hi age anil and with the words the best beat of all Is god Is with up this remarkable roan man the lait last ct the great reformers passed into the th felicities of the eternal life ills ahi repose in city bloid chapel ster abbey bears bis his tablet but hit hi starne to I 1 hout tred throughout the th world orld |
