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 V.<br />
TEACHING AND TRAINING.<br />
JOHN WESLEY certainly could not have remembered<br />
the beginning of his mother's educational work, as it<br />
commenced before his birth ;<br />
but he must have experienced<br />
its benefits, as she, with some assistance from<br />
her husband in rudimentary classics and mathematics,<br />
prepared him to enter the Charterhouse at eleven years<br />
of age with considerable credit to himself and his<br />
teachers. He pressed her repeatedly in after life towrite<br />
down full details for his information, and she was<br />
evidently somewhat loath to do it, for at the end of a<br />
letter dated February 21st, 1732, she says<br />
:<br />
" The writing anything about my way of education<br />
I am much averse to. It cannot, I think, be of service<br />
to anyone to know how I, who have lived such a retired<br />
life for so many years, used to employ my time and<br />
care in bringing up my children. No one can, without<br />
renouncing the world, in the most literal sense, observe<br />
my method; and there are few, if any, that would<br />
entirely devote above twenty years of the prime of life<br />
in hopes to save the souls of their children, which they<br />
think may be saved without so much ado ;<br />
for that
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