Susanna Wesley
This is the story of Susanna Wesley, 1669-1742 Mother of Charles and John Wesley, who were founders of the Methodist Church. Susanna and her husband, Samuel, had nineteen children, ten of whom survived to adulthood. Her son Charles became a well-known hymn writer and her son John became the found of Methodism. Susanna was brought up in a Puritan home as the youngest of twenty-five children. As a teenager, she became a member of the Church of England. She became the wife of a chronically debt-ridden parish rector in an English village. She said, "I have had a large experience of what the world calls adverse fortune." Nonetheless, Susanna managed to pass down to her children Christian principles that stayed with them.
This is the story of Susanna Wesley, 1669-1742 Mother of Charles and John Wesley, who were founders of the Methodist Church. Susanna and her husband, Samuel, had nineteen children, ten of whom survived to adulthood. Her son Charles became a well-known hymn writer and her son John became the found of Methodism.
Susanna was brought up in a Puritan home as the youngest of twenty-five children. As a teenager, she became a member of the Church of England. She became the wife of a chronically debt-ridden parish rector in an English village. She said, "I have had a large experience of what the world calls adverse fortune." Nonetheless, Susanna managed to pass down to her children Christian principles that stayed with them.
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LIST OF AUTHORITIES.<br />
Memorials of the <strong>Wesley</strong> Family, by the Rev. G. J.<br />
Stevenson. 1876.<br />
The Life of John <strong>Wesley</strong>, by the Rev. Luke Tyerman.<br />
1870.<br />
Memoirs of the <strong>Wesley</strong> Family, by Dr. Adam Clarke.<br />
1823.<br />
Life of <strong>Wesley</strong>, by Robert Southey. 1820.<br />
Original Letters by the Rev. John <strong>Wesley</strong> and his<br />
Friends, by Dr. Joseph Priestly. 1791.<br />
Life of Charles <strong>Wesley</strong>, by John Whitehead, M.D.<br />
1805.<br />
The Mother of the <strong>Wesley</strong>s, by the Rev. John Kirk.<br />
1876.<br />
The Methodist Pocket-Book. 1800.<br />
The <strong>Wesley</strong> Banner. April and May, 1852.<br />
Mrs. <strong>Wesley</strong>'s original Papers.
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