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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112 SUSANNA WE8LET.<br />
Both with equal ardour moving,<br />
Dearly loved, and truly loving.<br />
Long may both enjoy the pleasure<br />
Without guilt and without measure !<br />
Only two children were born to the young couple,<br />
the former of whom was named Samuel, after his<br />
father and grandfather. Being the first grandchild,<br />
he was thought a great deal of, and much grief was<br />
felt when he died shortly before what would have<br />
been his twenty-first birthday. The daughter was a<br />
great favourite with her uncles, and attached herself<br />
especially to Charles <strong>Wesley</strong>. She was known in the<br />
family as " Phil."
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