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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DISAPPOINTMENTS AND PERPLEXITIES. 141<br />
more home news. These communications must have<br />
been pretty frequent, as will be seen by Mrs. <strong>Wesley</strong>'s<br />
xeply :<br />
" DEAR<br />
" JACKY, Wroote, Nov. 24th, 1724.<br />
1 '<br />
I have now three of your letters before me<br />
unanswered. I take it<br />
very kindly that you write<br />
so often. I am afraid of being chargeable, or I<br />
should miss few posts ;<br />
it<br />
being exceedingly pleasant<br />
to me, in this solitude, to read your letters, which,<br />
however, would be pleasing anywhere. Your disappointment<br />
in not seeing us at Oxon was not of such<br />
consequence as mine in not meeting my brother in<br />
London; not but your wonderful curiosities might<br />
excite a person of greater faith than mine to travel<br />
to your museum to visit them. It is almost a pity<br />
that somebody does not cut the weazand of that<br />
keeper for lying so enormously.<br />
"I wish you would save all the money you can conveniently<br />
spare, not to spend on a visit, but for a wiser<br />
and better purpose to pay debts, and make yourself<br />
easy. I am not without hope of meeting you next<br />
summer, if it please God to prolong my mortal life.<br />
If you then be willing, and have time allowed you<br />
to accompany me to Wroote, I will bear your charges<br />
as God shall enable me.<br />
"I hope, at your leisure, you will oblige me with<br />
some more verses on any, but rather on a religious<br />
subject.<br />
" Dear Jack, I beseech Almighty God to bless you.<br />
" SUSANNA WESLEY.''<br />
Perhaps it was Mrs. <strong>Wesley</strong>'s wish that John should<br />
take orders and become one of his father's curates that
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