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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MATERNAL SOLICITUDE. 69<br />
About three weeks after the writing of this<br />
letter Mrs. <strong>Wesley</strong> was prematurely<br />
confined of her<br />
eighteenth child, Charles, who became the sweet singer<br />
of Methodism. This was on December 18th, 1707. The<br />
babe was a frail and almost inanimate little creature,<br />
and neither cried nor opened his eyes for several weeks.<br />
He was too fragile even to be dressed, and was kept<br />
wrapped up in wool for some time. When the moment<br />
arrived at which he should have come into the world<br />
if all had been well with his mother, he opened his<br />
He<br />
eyes and cried, and thenceforth throve tolerably.<br />
was somewhat delicate as a youth and young man,<br />
but lived to a good old age. In these circumstances<br />
Mrs. <strong>Wesley</strong> could not be expected to write letters,<br />
and there is a long gap in her correspondence with<br />
Samuel, which the father did his best to fill<br />
up.
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