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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The death is announced of the Rev. Samuel <strong>Wesley</strong>, an<br />
aged and highly-esteemed minister, who for many years<br />
acted as chaplain to the <strong>Wesley</strong>an troops stationed at the<br />
Hounslow garrison. The deceased minister is said to have<br />
been a most interesting and unique personality, bearing<br />
a striking facial resemblance to the well-known Founder<br />
of Methodism. He was a descendant of John <strong>Wesley</strong>,<br />
A.M., one of the preachers who had been accepted by<br />
Oliver Cromwell's triers, and one of the notable 2,000<br />
clergymen expelled in 1662. The deceased gentleman had<br />
several of the natural characteristics of the Epworth<br />
<strong>Wesley</strong>, and was the only descendant of that remarkable<br />
family in modern days remaining in the British Methodist<br />
ministry. He died at Raunds in his eighty-first year.<br />
364 <strong>Wesley</strong> Family : Memoirs of the, by<br />
Adam Clarke, facs. autographs, views of Ep-
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