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This was an 84 years old woman who said thesewords full of faith.WOMEN´ S CONTINUED INTERESTIN JOHN WESLEYIt is interesting to observe that the three Wesleybiographers, who specially have been referred to in thiswork have been women apart from Bishop McConnell. Ithas been especially John Wesley´ s love story and hiscontacts with women that these women have beenconcerned with. The three authors that I referred to andtheir books are:Laura Petri, John Wesley,G. Elsie Harrison, Son to Susanna, andMarjorie Bowen, Wrestling Jacob.I was about to forget Rebecca Lamar Harmon, theBishops wife, who wrote an interesting little book with thefollowing title: Susanna Mother of The Wesley´ s”.Here we have four women who have beenoccupied with research in Wesley literature. In addition tothese women there are many men who have written aboutJohn Wesley. I have a thick catalogue over Wesleyliteraturethat Duke University, North Carolina, hascompiled. The catalogue shows that the Wesley-literaturebelongs to the great domain of research in the Englishlanguage.I discussed Wesley with my wife Patricia, and Iwondered why women were so interested in John Wesley,who was unsuccessful in his marriage relation to women.She answered that what is unattainable is always100
interesting. It can be a lot of truth in this observation, butthere still seems to be a great interest for John Wesley even300 years after his birth and 265 years after his spiritualexperience in Alders Gate Street.I have myself not been so interested in thebiographical part pf Wesley, rather the problem orientedand systematic theological field as well as the philosophicaland logical studies. I must also mention the philosophy ofreligion as my field of Wesley-studies. I have also written amanuscript about John Wesley´ s systematic theology withthe title: “Rider with Love and Holiness”. In this work Itries to give a panorama picture of Wesley´ s theology,ethics and practical theology. My manuscripts are to befound in the United Methodist Library and Archives, DrewUniversity, Madison, New Jersey.There seems to be different interest fields amongmen and women even in Wesley- research. It is possible thatthe man psych is more interested in the theoretical andintellectual field while the woman psych is more interestedin the practical and the human relations that appear in thehistorical and biographical works.In John Wesley´ s Journals volume I, I saw apicture montage in three parts.At the top was a picture of the Parsonage inEpworth, which was called “The Rectory”. The Parsonagehas been bought by the Methodist Church, and is one of theHoly Places of the Methodist Church.In the middle are two pictures in round frames. Tothe left is a picture of the rector Samuel Wesley and to theright is a picture of Susanna Wesley. She is also lookingtowards the centre.101
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THE WOMEN AROUND JOHN WESLEYAT HOME
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Leslie F. Church has contributed wi
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SAMUEL WESLEY - AN UNUSUAL PRIESTLe
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550 members from October 1972. Ther
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Cambridge University was not part o
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she, who had been her father´ s fa
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Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln. John We
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LITERARY ACTIVITYSamuel Wesley had
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The three Wesley brothers were all
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SUSANNA WESLEY THE MOTHER OF METHOD
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can partly thank Susanna that layme
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education and integration in educat
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he delivered a speech at the graves
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Emilia was helpful and took respons
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partly by John Wesley because he di
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SULKY MARRIES RICHARD ELLISONUnfort
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Richard had liked very much, had be
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The Vicar John Whitelamb opened his
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her beauty, others for her witticis
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perform weddings. Many young Englis
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suffering Hetty went through due to
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The Wesley-girls would not have man
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Hetty had surely hoped that the new
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Page 52 and 53: Your fatherS. Wesley.”FATHER AND
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Page 58 and 59: that he used to bring his dog with
Page 60 and 61: Samuel Wesley. Romley served also a
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Page 80 and 81: EVERYONE FALL IN LOVE WITH JOHN WES
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Page 96 and 97: The vicar Rev. John Fletcher from M
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