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"Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation." Compare this with John Wesley's description of a holy man after Paul.
Lawrence Church, he heard, he tells us, the voice of Jesus saying, "I am thy salvation," and there and then his heart danced for joy and his dying soul revived. At that time, as far as I can discover, he had not even heard of the Oxford Methodists; but a few months later he heard strange news of Wesley's Oxford comrade, Charles Kinchin. The occasion was a private card party at Reading.
Two events made 1891 memorable for Methodists, the centenary of Wesley's death and its commemoration being the first. The Conference decided that suitable memorial services should be held, and an appeal made to Methodists everywhere for funds to improve Wesley's Chapel and the graveyard containing his tomb.
Kate's uneasiness and restless vagaries, her disjointed talk and half-guilty evasions, would have been remarked by her prepossessed hosts; while Wesley's shifting and moody silence would have warned his comrades that he was suffering the pangs of an evil done or meditated. Precursive signs like these and much more, which need not be dwelt on the kind hosts of Rosedale made no note of.
Five years had passed since Fletchcr entered Madeley as its Vicar, and with the result of his labours he was anything but satisfied. Of the fifth year he wrote: "This last year has been the worst I have had here barren in convictions, fruitful in backslidings." "The coming of Mr. Wesley's preachers into my parish gives me no uneasiness.
This, it is verily believed, was from first to last the master key to a right understanding of John Wesley's life. Everything must give way to this one great object. In subservience to this he was ready to sacrifice many predilections, and thereby to lay himself open to the charge of changeableness and inconsistency.
It is sufficient in this place to remark that the Antinomianism which, as a plain matter of fact, admitted even by the Calvinists themselves, did result from the perversion of Calvinism, was, if possible, a more fatal hindrance to Wesley's work than the Moravian stillness itself.
Miss Wesley's family had great musical sensibility and skill. This led the family into giving musical parties, at which was constantly to be found Lord Mornington, the father of the Duke of Wellington. For these parties it was, as Miss Wesley informed me, that the earl composed his most celebrated glee.
Wesley's nag, and the Rector usually rode an old gray named Mettle, but had taken of late to a filly of his own breeding. "I ought to remember Bounce's shuffle," answered Hetty. "Nay, I should have recognised it on the road two miles back if if I hadn't been " She came to a full stop, in some confusion. Nevertheless she was right; and the girls arrived downstairs to learn from Mrs.
"Do you think, 'O how dear and lovely must Christ be!" but "Are you certain that Christ has saved 'you'; that he died for 'you you you yourself'?" on to the end of the chapter. This is Wesley's doctrine. Lecture IX. vol. IV. p. 96.
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