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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more immediately into His own hand ; and, therefore,<br />
even against hope, I believed in hope that I should<br />
never suffer more.<br />
" I cannot write much, being but weak. I have not<br />
been down-stairs above ten weeks, though better than<br />
I was lately. Pray give my kind love and blessing to<br />
my daughter and Philly. I pray God to support and<br />
provide for her.<br />
" SUSANNA WESLEY."<br />
About a month afterwards she wrote again, probably<br />
in reply to a letter from Charles, whose head-quarters<br />
were at Bristol :<br />
"Foundry, December 27th, 1739.<br />
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