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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PARTINGS. 151<br />
Observe the warm well-littered sty<br />
Where sows and pigs and porkets lie ;<br />
the draff supply.<br />
Nancy or you<br />
They<br />
* * * *<br />
swill and care not whither.<br />
But not so glad<br />
As you<br />
to wait upon your dad !<br />
Oh, 'tis exceeding pretty !<br />
Methinks I see you striving all<br />
Who first shall answer to his call,<br />
Or lusty Anne, or feeble Moll,<br />
Sage Pat, or sober Hetty ;<br />
To rub his cassock's draggled tail,<br />
Or reach his hat from off the nail,<br />
Or seek the key to draw his ale,<br />
When damsel haps to steal it.<br />
To burn his pipe, or mend his clothes,<br />
Or nicely darn his russet hose<br />
For comfort of his aged toes<br />
So fine they cannot feel it.<br />
There were, however, times when Wroote was far from<br />
being a pleasant abode even in summer, while the difficulties<br />
of serving the two cures were very great. Mr.<br />
<strong>Wesley</strong>, though glad of help from his sons when<br />
they could come, was afraid lest their constitutions<br />
should suffer from hardships which did not appear to<br />
have any worse effect on himself than increasing the<br />
weariness of which from time to time he complained.<br />
Part of a letter written to John, in June 1727, tells what<br />
the difficulty was of getting about the fen country when<br />
the waters were out :<br />
" When you come hither, after having taken care of<br />
Charterhouse, and your own rector, your head-quartera
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