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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PREFACE.<br />
THIS life of <strong>Susanna</strong> <strong>Wesley</strong>, the mother of John<br />
<strong>Wesley</strong> the founder, and of Charles <strong>Wesley</strong> the poet,<br />
of Methodism, differs from previous ones in not being<br />
written from a sectarian nor even from an eminently<br />
religious point of view. Having<br />
been much associated<br />
with those who had been in familiar intercourse<br />
with Charles <strong>Wesley</strong>'s widow and children,<br />
and having heard <strong>Susanna</strong> <strong>Wesley</strong> continually spoken<br />
of as a woman " who underwent and overcame "<br />
more difficulties than most, the ideal of her life<br />
early aroused my imagination. I was delighted with<br />
the opportunity of writing her memoir, and have<br />
done so with the sympathetic admiration natural to<br />
one in whose veins runs some of her blood, however<br />
much diluted.<br />
I have done my best to reconcile dates, and give<br />
events and letters in their proper order; but it has<br />
been a somewhat difficult task, partly<br />
because the<br />
Old and New Styles have evidently been used indiscriminately,<br />
and<br />
partly on account of the habit of the<br />
family of making rough drafts as well as fair copies<br />
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