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 IX.<br />
THE HOME EEBUILT.<br />
THE Rector of Epworth was not a man to do things<br />
by halves, and, even if he had been, the repair or rebuilding<br />
of a parsonage is a matter that comes under<br />
the notice of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and<br />
must be done in what they consider a suitable style.<br />
Queen Anne's reign was an era when red brick was<br />
generally used for all new buildings of any pretensions,<br />
if we may go by the quaint, substantial houses<br />
that in many English cities date from her time.<br />
The foundations of the old abode were dug up, and<br />
bricks were used for the walls instead of the former<br />
lath and plaster. The house was probably not more<br />
commodious than its predecessor, it would have been<br />
a work of supererogation to have made it so ;<br />
but the<br />
old parsonage, with its five bays, had contained ample<br />
accommodation for a large family, and the new one<br />
was quite equal to it. There were three stories ;<br />
that<br />
is to say, dining-room, parlour, study, and domestic<br />
offices on the ground floor, bed-rooms above, and a<br />
large garret or loft over all. The house still stands,<br />
and when a few months ago<br />
its walls were stripped for
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