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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SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS.<br />
threatens me (with a violent cough and some fatal<br />
symptoms) is gone off, and I am more likely to recover<br />
than ever ; nay, if I could once get my strength, I<br />
should not make a doubt of it. This ease of body<br />
and great calm of mind, I firmly believe, is owing to<br />
the prayer of faith. I think this support the more<br />
extraordinary, because I have no sense of God's presence,<br />
ever since I took my bed ;<br />
and you know what<br />
we are when left to ourselves under great pain and<br />
apprehensions of death. Yet,<br />
though I am yet in desertion,<br />
and the enemy is very busy, I enjoy so great<br />
a measure of quietness and thankfulness as is really<br />
above nature. !<br />
Hallelujah Whether or no the bitterness<br />
of death is past, I am perfectly easy and resigned,<br />
having given up this, with dear Will's spiritual<br />
welfare and all other things, to the Sovereign Physician<br />
of souls and bodies.<br />
" Dearest brother, no selfish consideration can ever<br />
make me wish your stay in this most dangerous diabolical<br />
world ; yet we must always say, ' Thy<br />
will be<br />
done ' ;<br />
and I am pleased<br />
still to think God will<br />
permit us to meet again, though I cannot say I desire<br />
life a minute longer, even upon these terms. Willy<br />
gives his love, and would be unfeignedly glad to see<br />
you. Pray join in prayer with me still that he may<br />
persevere. Matty, too, gives her duty and desires<br />
your prayers. Neither of their souls prosper as I could<br />
wish them. Strange that though we know sanctification<br />
is a gradual work, we want our neighbours to go<br />
faster than ourselves ;<br />
but poor Willy only waits for<br />
the first gift. I have not one fear for those who are<br />
truly in earnest.<br />
" If the nation is run stark mad in politics, though<br />
never a jot the wiser or holier, no wonder that the
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