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. 163<br />
chair and kept me from keeping him company. She<br />
cried out to William to stop the horses, and that her<br />
master was killed. The fellow leaped<br />
out of the<br />
seat and stayed the horses, then ran to Mr. <strong>Wesley</strong><br />
;<br />
but ere he got to him, two neighbours, who were providentially<br />
met together, raised his head, upon which he<br />
had pitched, and held him backwards, by which means<br />
he began to respire ;<br />
for it is certain, by the blackness<br />
of his face, that he had never drawn breath from the<br />
time of his fall till<br />
they helped him up.<br />
By<br />
this time<br />
I was got to him, asked him how he did, and persuaded<br />
him to drink a little ale, for we had brought a bottle<br />
with us. He looked prodigiously wild, but began to<br />
speak, and told me he ailed nothing. I informed him<br />
of his fall. He said ' he knew nothing of any fall, he<br />
was as well as ever he was in his life/ We bound up<br />
his head, which was very much bruised, and helped<br />
him into the waggon again, and sat him at the bottom<br />
of it, while I supported his head between my hands,<br />
and the man led the horses gently home. I sent presently<br />
for Mr. Harper, who took a good quantity of<br />
blood from him ;<br />
and then he began to feel pain in<br />
several parts, particularly in his side and shoulder.<br />
He had a very<br />
ill<br />
night but on<br />
; Saturday morning Mr.<br />
Harper came again to him, dressed his head, and gave<br />
him something which much abated the pain in his side.<br />
We repeated the dose at bed-time; and on Sunday<br />
he preached twice and gave the Sacrament, which<br />
was too much for him to do, but nobody could dissuade<br />
him from it. On Monday he was ill, and slept<br />
almost all day. On Tuesday the gout came, but<br />
with two or three nights taking Bateman, it went off<br />
again, and he has since been better than we could have<br />
expected. We thought at first the waggon had gone<br />
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