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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CHAPTER III.<br />
EARLY MARRIED LIFE.<br />
SUSANNA WESLEY must have been an economical<br />
woman and a good housekeeper, for she and her<br />
husband lived for two years in London lodgings,<br />
during which time their eldest son Samuel was born,<br />
and managed to pay their way and keep perfectly<br />
free from debt on their small income. The young<br />
husband now entered into a literary project, which he<br />
hoped would add considerably to his resources. He<br />
joined Mr. Dunton and a few others in establishing<br />
the Athenian Gazette, a weekly publication, that<br />
lived for some years. The meetings of the coadjutors<br />
were held at stated periods at Smith's Coffee-house in<br />
George Yard, now George Street, near the Mansion<br />
House. It is calculated that during the existence of<br />
this periodical Mr. <strong>Wesley</strong> contributed about two hundred<br />
articles to its pages, and it is from the pen of one<br />
of his fellow-workers, Charles Gildon who afterwards<br />
wrote a history of the " "<br />
Athenian Society that we<br />
have the best sketch of what manner of man <strong>Susanna</strong>'s<br />
husband was in his early prime.<br />
" He was a man of profound knowledge, not only<br />
of the Holy Scriptures, of the Councils, and of the
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