THE WOMEN AROUND JOHN WESLEY AT HOME ... - Kristoffersen

occasions. The second time she was the one that tookresponsibility for “Mrs. Taylor´ s boarding School”. It washard work in the School and low salary. Her conditionsimproved when she started her own School inGainsborough. She was successful there. It was JohnWesley who helped her to start the School.From the diaries of John Wesley we find that hewrote letters to Emilia from Oxford. He did the same thingon the boat “Simonds” on the way to Georgia. He rode onhis horse to Gainsborough in Lincoln through rain andfloods where he visited his sister Emilia. When Johntravelled to Germany to visit Count Zinzendorf, Emilia toldhim that he ought to take care of the family instead. Johncared both for the Church and his big family. He caredeconomically both for his sisters and his mother. Emiliawas eleven years older than John, and sometimes John hadto write to correct her unjust complaints and naughtiness.He had also to prove her ungratefulness and to point out thefact that she took more care of herself than of him.John Wesley wrote letters to Patty and Emilia. Inthe letters he encourage them to do good. All this is to befound in the four first volumes of his Journals and letters.IN LOVE WITH A MEDICAL DOCTOREmilia, as John Wesley calls her in his letters, wasnow in the beginning of the forties. She now entered into anew love affair with a medical man. It seemed to go well atthe beginning of the relation. She wrote herself about hernew friend that he was “ a faithful friend, a uniquecompanion and a keen lover”. This relation was broken up31