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<strong>JOHN</strong> <strong>WESLEY</strong> AND SOPHY HOPKEYIn addition to the misunderstanding with theIndians and the settlers in Georgia, he fell in love with ayoung woman named Sophy Hopkey. He should havemarried her, but did not so. She married another man andWesley took to Church discipline. He excluded Sophy fromthe Lords Supper. There were rumours around. Sophy´ shusband reported John Wesley and he notified the court.The charge was defamation. It was in the middle of astormy tea party that John Wesley decided to return toEngland. He realized that he was not so useful in Georgia.This was not the end of Wesley´ s influence in America,which came to be great. This influence did not come fromWesley, as a High Church missionary, but from Wesleyand the Free Church that grew out from the movement thatwas known by the name the Methodist Church.Sophy Hopkey was Thomas Causton´ s niece. Hewas the chief lawyer or judge in the town Savannah.Wesley stayed at his house when he first came to Georgia.It was here he first met Sophy. She was still a teenage girlwith a delicate and an exquisite beauty. She appealed moreto Wesley´ s intellect than to his eyes. She was tall andgracious with light brown hair and brown hazel - nut eyes.She dressed ordinarily, and she had gracious manners. Shewas that kind of woman that appealed to Wesley. This wasthe first time he felt attracted to a woman, if one look awayfrom the dreams of the boy and his courtship to BettyKirkham, daughter to the vicar in Stauton. This must havebeen very different than the childhood love for Betty,76
ecause now both his feelings and spiritual nature hadcome to maturity, and gave him a new experience with abigger depth than the fleeting childhood feelings. Wesleydid not understand or he apprehended as in a mist that hewas in love. He could not differentiate this love of eros,which has a body, from the divine agape love that wasbound to the soul.He tried to disperse or to sublimate this newpassionate energy into spiritual exercise and activities. Hestarted Sophy´ s education and became her adviser andinstructor in everything. By pushing away his feelings hemeant that he was only interested in her heavenly welfare.They read a lot of devotional literature as well astheological studies.Anthony Praga says that John Wesley worked forten persons during this period, and he sang enough for awhole choir of angels, he prayed as if should be a wholecongregation, and he abstained from food and water to aminimum. He was eating only to keep his life going. Thisbehaviour indicates that he must have been deeply in love.He believed that he looked upon her, with aMinister of the Church and his impersonal eyes, who looksat his Congregation from a distance, and not with theloving eyes of nearness. Rumours started to go circulate asthe two were so much together both early and late. Shecame every morning to the early morning Service in theParsonage, had breakfast and walked for hours with JohnWesley in the Garden.Both her uncle, judge Causton and GeneralGovernor Oglethorpe encouraged the two to marry. Thingsdeveloped in another direction.77
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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
Page 26 and 27: education and integration in educat
Page 28 and 29: he delivered a speech at the graves
Page 30 and 31: Emilia was helpful and took respons
Page 32 and 33: partly by John Wesley because he di
Page 34 and 35: SULKY MARRIES RICHARD ELLISONUnfort
Page 36 and 37: Richard had liked very much, had be
Page 38 and 39: The Vicar John Whitelamb opened his
Page 40 and 41: her beauty, others for her witticis
Page 42 and 43: perform weddings. Many young Englis
Page 44 and 45: suffering Hetty went through due to
Page 46 and 47: The Wesley-girls would not have man
Page 48 and 49: Hetty had surely hoped that the new
Page 50 and 51: “Ere thy gentle breast sustainsLa
Page 52 and 53: Your fatherS. Wesley.”FATHER AND
Page 54 and 55: had dated 22 nd August 1735, he had
Page 56 and 57: TO DIE IN HAPPINESSHetty said to a
Page 58 and 59: that he used to bring his dog with
Page 60 and 61: Samuel Wesley. Romley served also a
Page 62 and 63: THE TRUE NATURE OF WESTLEY HALLThe
Page 64 and 65: edited 1737. This play was performe
Page 66 and 67: could if she could stand it. Furthe
Page 68 and 69: It has surprised the historians tha
Page 70 and 71: were more out and about. In this wa
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Page 74 and 75: WESLEY´ S MISSION ROMANTICISMJohn
Page 78 and 79: Sophy had many eyes directed toward
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Page 84 and 85: The Wesley biographer L. Tyeman tel
Page 86 and 87: writes: “I still love you, and I
Page 88 and 89: who are searching for kingdom witho
Page 90 and 91: Mrs. Harrison is not the only one w
Page 92 and 93: Nottingham. On a wall in a small si
Page 94 and 95: was born in a pub should be accepte
Page 96 and 97: The vicar Rev. John Fletcher from M
Page 98 and 99: Huntingdon. The countess was more a
Page 100 and 101: This was an 84 years old woman who
Page 102 and 103: At the bottom of the montage is a p
Page 104 and 105: Lords. It was only a selection of t
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Page 110 and 111: “PERSONALISM - THE SOUNDESTPOSITI
Page 112 and 113: method. Dr. Kristoffersen was respo
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