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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220 SUSANNA WESLEY.<br />
person you mentioned in your last is brimful of them,<br />
though she keeps within bounds, and does not talk<br />
the be-<br />
treason, whatever she may think. I am glad<br />
lievers T know seem to run into no extreme about the<br />
present affairs, either of losing the one thing needful<br />
by talking too much or praying too little. The Lord<br />
give us a right judgment in all things.<br />
" My prayers, love, and best wishes attend all dear<br />
iriends at Bristol, from whom I have received innumerable<br />
obligations ; but, above all, Mrs. Vigor and<br />
her family,<br />
who showed unwearied love in serving and<br />
humouring me. . . .<br />
" It has been one of my heaviest crosses that I have<br />
been unable to write to them all ;<br />
but if ever I recover,<br />
I despair not of doing it yet, if acceptable from<br />
write to them<br />
a novice. You think, perhaps, I may<br />
as well as you ; but, dear Charles, I write now in bed,<br />
and you cannot believe what it costs me. I trust to<br />
remember and bless you many times yet before I die ;<br />
wishing we may have another happy meeting first,<br />
it is best. So, with prayers for the universal Church,<br />
ministers, assistants, and all mankind, I take leave to<br />
subscribe myself your most obliged and loving sister,<br />
" MEHET. WRIGHT."<br />
if<br />
Mrs. Wright seems to have partially recovered from<br />
this illness, though she was never strong again ;<br />
but in<br />
January and February 1750, it was evident that her<br />
nd was approaching. She shared in the exaggerated<br />
and almost hysterical sentiments so common among the<br />
early Methodists, and to a friend who went to see her<br />
" said, I have ardently wished for death, because you<br />
know we Methodists always die in a transport of joy."<br />
Charles seems to have been the only brother just then
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