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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8 SUSANNA WESLEY.<br />
of figure to old age, although she was the mother of<br />
nineteen children.<br />
There is a well-known anecdote of the Rev. Thomas<br />
Manton, who, after christening <strong>Susanna</strong>, was asked by<br />
a friend how many olive branches Dr. Annesley had ;<br />
he replied that it was either a couple of dozen or a<br />
quarter of a hundred. It is probable, however, that<br />
out of this large number several died in infancy. Still,<br />
the quiver was very full indeed, though, the parents not<br />
being by any means poor, all who survived were well<br />
cared for and solidly educated.
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