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Show John Wesley married a wfdow, Mfa. Vizolle, who grew tired of his restlessly laborious life and complained. He paid no attention, and from complaint sho went on to jealousy, thence to fury. He rebuked her sternly: "Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money or praise. Bo content to bo a private, insignificant person. Of what importance impor-tance is your character to mankind? If you wero buried just now or had never lived, what loss would it be to tho cause of God?" She loft him, taking with her a largo numbor of his privato papers, and ho dismissed the subject by writing in his journal: "I did not forsake her. I did not dismiss her. I shall not call her back." |