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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30 SUSANNA WESLEY.<br />
was my principal intention, however unskilfully and<br />
unsuccessfully managed."<br />
Happily she did ultimately allow herself to be persuaded,<br />
and wrote to her son John as follows :<br />
" DEAR SON,<br />
" Epworth, July 24th, 1732.<br />
" According to your desire, I have collected the<br />
principal rules I observed in educating my family.<br />
" The children were always put into a regular method<br />
of living, in such things as they were capable of, from<br />
their birth ;<br />
as in dressing and undressing, changing<br />
their linen, &c. The first quarter commonly passes in<br />
sleep. After that they were, if possible, laid into their<br />
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