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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LAST YEARS. 211<br />
has stood opposite the City Road Chapel, fronting<br />
Bunhill Fields, since December 1870, bearing a very<br />
similar inscription to the one last given.<br />
This little life of <strong>Susanna</strong> <strong>Wesley</strong> can hardly be<br />
better concluded than in the words of the late Isaac<br />
Taylor, himself the son of a mother who, with her<br />
husband's assistance, educated the whole of her very<br />
large family, and had the satisfaction of seeing them<br />
grow up to be among the most cultivated and pious<br />
persons of their own or any other generation of English<br />
" The <strong>Wesley</strong>s' mother was the<br />
men and women :<br />
mother of Methodism in a religious and moral sense ;<br />
for, her courage, her submissiveness to authority, the<br />
high tone of her mind, its independence, and its selfcontrol,<br />
the warmth of her devotional feelings and the<br />
practical direction given to them, came up and were<br />
visibly repeated in the character and conduct of her<br />
sons."<br />
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