Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1875, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, ADRIT, 17, 1875.—TWELVE PAGES. e — e TO EXCHANGE. XOHANG -G8 WAARILAV. Crty-tiest ot ~Makn an affcr, Wear Adams-at, nie:sl, for cheap honve, Lo n-AY., for vacant wva-av, for lots or emali houss. g1, fur loty or faru. re aclisnm-st. for sacant lnts, = na Michigan:nv, for vacant lots, 40 vacaat Jots fur bulids 1 mareial suranoe stocks, buggics, tine watchos, and dia- Trows sud ol 1y Addreeah Wost Warliinglon-at, AT, ESTATE FOIL 1XCHANGR—WE WISIT T Ucrelianga 810,y worth of Umboer and oal Iaudein Wael Virginia for gad tmprovod or maimpruved real a1 el ) pay s part in cash, ‘Fals laad 1y 7 whitowood and whifo ogic timber, m ona to five vaine of caal, And oun® s mord taan o0 foct L thicknans, “Fwa or tirea tieamd aegen 16 on tha liso of thia Gira- peake & OBl Kallenad, “Tne oak timhiee hesd by the Cao imal Pachic thallrnd of gznlmrmhul:‘l)‘lx;p’:d“ll‘rcmllln'lz dintg nelghbarhood, loing earried D g 3 ;B 5 hround the Han fo rain Jarge quanti peotis. 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A changa for antock 6f general merchandize: a3 sturstedd it b atea U, 1 and 1, & 3L tatl- sondas conabiy fapialy Umpral 3 of land’ 84,81, T pisiiininte: sdes DARNEY & EVANY, Lowell TKoaincy Cong, Nob. t AND EOUND, F{)U.\'H—-AI COW AND QKD NEIFER: THR cow will enive 111 o about Juns. The soung one has 11t onie broks un ine polut, Tae r's Lrick-yard, Egau-ar., tear LuaEs, Cruvked nurnd, the ener ean get tacul at ¥ King-1 WOUT X STONTIT AGUS ON OALUMET- ihuod containlug & suin wf ang ‘The t Ly dexeeiblug 1. 1047 Lrairl g"l: "ll'.() UR\\’ OoN AP“I"“ 8, .anll o L. Any harion gleing ipiorma: 1ot Caval-sts il ‘Teceiva Blo; JAMEN Z37 REWARD. APRIL 13, AL iy © Toam, on ot or in_soing orites, the Wil ut L0 N. h b o i ey of Havhae & o Guhcrt, ber nusbaud, uclussd in ono'or Barksr.t Waii Hatura Lu Logaty Court, and claim roward, H. ],031-ATOUT T OCLUCK R ) tiween 2M Sauth Wator-st and Thind Nat on eliher 1.ake, 17ca.born, o South Water-sts.,: lova, ‘I'ne iinder wii} bo rewarded by leaving tho. Suuth Waterst, 15,13, ON MADISONST,, BE. Fp3 Cengrear, ons U xcll onyx A Blos 3%, Fader will be sultably remkcded by eariig I'hs truder £ Bown Mo, 1.8 ZDNVSDAY NIGHT, A GARVED IYORY 4 by 4 on Ladlinat, or ua Madiion-st. nexr Latlin, Vioara rotusn t sl Vest dladison-st. TUPTPOSED T0 B LOST—A _WANEIOUSE T coiptbund Uy the Giicago Dacklyg apd Beoriaivg Compang of 1his cily, vumbe.cd 1,1, uubd bearing date ¥cb, &, 1810, for twa' hmadredl and ity brts mors ok, marl o Tves bizos, & Co,, and nat indarsed.” T dlivory of thio sumo ias bocn siopped, Notico Ja herchy v 1 e3ld roccipt 1s the pruperty of L. Wesy loumington, 11, 1V 63 HROS. & 310 LAY ¢ THIS AONNING, APRIL 210 i, Great Westorn lina stagas, oo Madison=si,, Lets Markat aud 5 ts., ope red all-0, cuufalniny callars, &o. , headings of Al 1 Co.t 1harkel un pl v fl:lm. o il rovolve, the above - retnralng propurt . D, Wolls & Co., stura carnor 5. J. W, HENRY. L Murxet and Bladison-sti PISCELLANEOUS, D D'FBR M, D, 0GD HAS NETURNED HOME {rota his vistt 8¢ imnproved. TTOLAGE FORt FURNITUILE, STORK FIXTURE: T OE e and geneEat obrgadiiiie, i bk bollding 19 WSt Moiroo-st, § modetato charges and liberal ad- vapens. Morses, bugsics, wagons, ato., wuld on cume. x:.m;{nn- VY AVTED=X RET QF TINNERS TOOLS: MUST N Buia o, Tribuns uifico. ASTED~A RALODN LIOENSE. OALL AT i3 \\x!u'u‘“ Adbmiat, Joleat wiaud. GUANLES A A’ ANTED-TWO BUITS OF GENTS' Ci:()'l‘lll',s, W ANTEDETNOpBUE (OF, Dok for 15 bourd £t 8 first-class Emcl. ‘Addross M &4, “friuuna hilea, & baildizgs pays In tiasthn s oron Norta Sidb. . AUSHIN, arefiiect, 6 Washlazton-st, s '\\’Al\‘\‘ :D=~A SV.OOND-IIAND BALUON LICENSE. MY 7 Address 01, Tribuns otica. \v ANTED-TU BUY . o1 frade, Chicage Tl Hnio to most, by ANT| BOY-ORTE TRTONE ORUSIT or, and 1 fron ruller weigling about 1,010 Jbs, per Anaal Tont. Addraes, at onee, Po O, Uox £33 Madlson, Wis, s ating fenus. ; HOUSEHOLD GO0DS, SITURB~NRW AND BEGOND.IIAND, A8 ‘Lonukeoulug mood, at gront bargains, At auce 9 S0uth Dear) NE PATRLOIL TTURE,ONFADP= A vory vlegant walnut fniaid parlor sully with ticl i1k cavenie: torall psive, $30, ontlrely now, fine gouds, o, poly S50 o P S e alant and ctfmson plush parler sult, fne 7 pucees, 3 . e AR ik l!!llrl’fulunflplucfl.ullnl STIP T0 TOARD ive c1sh prica and place and A hianasanio walhut an stylo; 1olafls for fi'fl/; for ealo a2 " waluue am| Hlamarck tosty suity 7 pleces, 460, A wralaut and ceduiaou alt, 3 piccos, 350, ._]ENI donce, Lib Siohik FURNITUNE, —OARPETY, ~ve=! ths patchaser, Asuosual, rellsble mako of o ds, for w fiot v# Inducoina Jeaaming aur guo whore, JOILY M e NSTHUCTION, T LS bl b L e A GADUAY, [GITRENTILST., 1L, 1, G'{"‘véflg. ‘“t-nucmny HEVER, vegins Monday, Al . . J, DANIE TRAGHER OF THE OUI- e Jom .guhiffilc Callegs: 33 Wabiusiears iar,at Ol Ttésldeucs, Q1 Wabash- WANTED-IN A FRIVATE FAMILY try, Uy & gontloian, perloct plans and toachior uf Ucruian and French lau. itarature, cto._ A B, Telbuna oiice. FOR 3AaLE. teacner, guagos. hidtor, Olt SALF—~VERY UHEAP~ONR LARGK RANGE, [ brotio, and atcat tabies, with sll counoctiuns, cofles ang tea uriy, A and & varlety orm s 3 flxtures realausant fxiuros, at 7. ad 39 S5uth Doarbornat. ]}‘Ofl BALE-MEMBERSHIP 1IN GIICAGO BOARD 2L TEiae address, sating waat jou wiligite, N 7, e TFOR BATI=A BECOND-ITAND MAR x{.fi MANTEL te, Mila l.l‘ ufllfifldoxdcr. e 0 apnty b R0 TRRT S b lug.. G __DIVORCES, DV T ST, T Gro, rac O YT O VR oAt N U o L A coupis ut hicaes. THIYOOD & DUNKI a1n cnglnes Bud puw i S Dl iug, and i wos _AUCTION SALES., Lighthouso Tender * Belle.” Ly givon that,s43 o'clogk p. m..on Thurs- e a7 ok ADill, 14, the Lizhihoisa’ fendse M\Pho! suld at pubiio suchica Lo the ey l{}llln:! “I’,‘Ia,"f w lying aud with ey bty "t tigajgy saily ot il o 1 By o St day ol ABENTUES G Seluck ., at ths Ligbinguase Dopor, Sn,:l: r, Al::x:.. ‘whero thuy uow Ao R urtior iniormtionapylyto noney, Styjorof Englajces, Lishibiuse Ealiodr. Hftgsubee, 5 ‘3,171 AND 173 LAK K- rin and wood-warking o3, o hieveas't wil Bighest bidder fof cath, ~ STOCKHOLDELRS G T GrricE of 1uk LATE buony & BIGHIUAN FOULHENN % Cpeved Ton ot el pauy, vl riaty b eI en ket o G dimadly b e L Ukio, 6o Wednesday, hufixfld&’ul Loy fi:-mnufl af Hfiffi‘_’.‘“' 3" tort G s (7% WLEE T Bocsstary pro, tem. 0 e ¥ / JOHN WESLEY. The Illustrious Founder of Methodism, A Man Who ITas Influenced tho Lives of Many Millions of Pcople. The Salient Points of His Re~ markable Career. His Mission to Georgin, and Its ' Disastrous Failure. Open-Air Preaching in England to Audiences of 60,000 and 60,000 Marvelons Labors of the Modern Apostle— Mo Delivers More than 10,000 Sermons, His Troubles with Womern, and ¥lis Unhappy Marrclage. Scenes at His Death-Bed, Alfred IT, Guerncey in the Gataxy, Macaulay sueors st listorians who have under- tazen to givo an acrount of the reign of Georgo IL withont mantioninm the preaching of \White field. I, fnatcad of Whitofiold, bo had written Wesloy, the sncer would have boen more just; for, after Lhe oetablishmont of ths Amoriean Re- publio, the institation of Mothodism ia the greatost event of “the slghteenth contury, and of oll men who lived in that century thore is no one whose influence upon after ages equals that of Jolin Wesloy. Of the 55,000,000 who speak tho English tongne, about 3,600,000 are membera of the Methodist charelios ; 4,000,000 more aro pupits in their Sunday-scoals, and the regular otlendnnts upon Meihodist worship cannot be lees than as many more,—15,000,000 in all, Thus ONE-FIFTH OF ALU WIIO SFEAX OUR LANOUAGE are directly molded, for thin lifo aud the life to come, by Mothodism, Wo doubt if any other Protestant communion real'y numbors as maay. The established churches of England and Ger- many ,indeed nominally.iscludo more; but in counting their numbets &ll who do not formally belong to other communlons are put down as Episcopalians or Lutkoians. Fully two-thirds of the Methodiats are In the United States, To Methodism more than to any otherona (hing it in owlng that our Western States grow up iuto e.vilization without passing through o period of semi-barbarism. Bouthey expressed mo more than the bare truth when lio said, * I consider Weeley a8 tho most influentini mind of tho last contury—the man who will have producod tho groateat affeots centuries or perhaps millenni- ums henco, 1f the present race of men shall con- tione go long.” This judgmous is coming to be acknowledged. Within a fow mouths past a mite Lias been appropriated in Westminaster Abboy for a monumout to John Weslay. Ofall the great ‘Englishmon there commomorated thera is no one moro worthy of a place. The world daea move after all ; aud who shiail say that smong thoe por- traits of Dritish sovereign3 in thoe Houss of Par- liament, that of Oiiver, the great Lord Protect- or, will not pet find placo 2 WESLLY HAS NOT DEEN FORTUNATE In bis biogeaphors. Of lives aad biographiss of him, suct: as they are, thoro have been enough, and more than ouough, - The ous which Lns nad most repute is that by Tlobott Southoy. This, at best, {5 ioadaquate, for the aathor of tho ** Vis- ion of Judgment” was not just the man to un- dorstand tho founder of Mothodlsm ; and those who have taken in hand' to edit Southey's work have failed’to improve it. Coleridge made if & favorite book In his later years, and wroto mom- oranda on mnoy of ita pagea; Bouthey's feoble son appondod thoss notes to an edition. Richard Watsoa wicto o volumeo of ** Observations,” and Aloxander Koox n pamphlet of *Remarts" upon Scuthoy's works: and an * American ed- itor” bas added all these, with *Notea" of Lla own, moas of which lnd bettor nover havo been written. This piobald edition 1s the one most ensily sccessiblo. Wo inuch prefer the work as Southoy wrote it. Daubing with untempered mortzr is not & very usolful trade. Yot theto is no man for whost life therd exist moro abundant materiala, Wosley's journals, letters, and other writings tell us just what he was, what ba did, aud when and why he did it, For fully hall o coutury there la lLardly a weok of which theéro i8 not an ample record. 30, TYERXAY, HIS LATEST DIOGBAPRED, desnrves credit for a laborious and caroful col- Icction of thede abundaut matorinls. Although higher praiso than this can hardty bo awarded to bim, bis work musi be accopted as a valuable contribution to history. We proposs to preacnt tho mau Johia Weeloy as ho appears to ns {a the light of this work, John' Wesley was born June 17, 1703, eld etyle, or June 28 a8 we naw 1eckon {ho calen- dar. ‘The famlly namo way nn‘;innlly written Weatley, the father of our Wesley having ap- parentiy been tho first to adopt tle preseus speiliug, A branch of the family who setiled jn Iretaud wroio tho namo Wellesloy, in which form 1t hos become listorical, Sainuel, the father of John Weslay, wae for mauy yeors vicar of Epworth and Wroote, smoug the fens of Lingolubiro, Tho liviog waa s tolerabla one for the day, the fncomo belug £200. ear, which, making due ailowance for the chango of values, would now be avout equal to £ Ths prescut valus of thé living is £1,000, clder Wesloy was a PIGUS AND LEARNED MAN, in his younger daya bad pajned some note writer, and was introducod by Papo into the * Dunciad,” though the name was suppressed in later editions, £le waa a laborious writer all s days, and some of lis works are still ex- tont 1 libraries, notably his ** Dissertationa on the Book of Job,” a ponderoua folio, *sritten in very tolorable Latn, [lo was s slmnple, geninl man, who apent moro than bis incume in repairiug bis vicarage and in puvhshivg books which would uot sell. Tlo was consequentlv ofton 1 pecnnlary straits, aad was soveial times imprisoned for dobs, 1lis wife, Busanuah An. nesloy, waa a woman of matked clhiaracter, wiose 1doas of hife it compariod with thiose of hor vasy- joing husbacd, *It s an unlsppineds,” sho wiots to hee don, * that your fatuer and Isel- dom thuk alike.” 'Thore were born to them five souy and eoven danghtors. Easch ot tho daugh- tord bad & 8ad history. OFf tho sons, two dicd in chilsbood. Bamuul,” the cfdcst of all, becaiao tho master of & grammar school. ‘The nest who survived childhvod was chrlstened John Bone juwnin, o memory of tho two who had diod; be was 4,000 The TOE FOUNDER OF METHODISM, Chaxles, 4 years youngur thau Jobu, beoame tho bymuist of the Mothadlatu, Samuel Wesloy hiad been chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham, and through bis jnfluence Jobn was at the age of 11 sdmitted to tho Clarter- Thonse Schoof in London, and st 18 b was chiosen to & scholership in Cbrist Oburch College, 'Ox- ford, Of tuo flest five yesrs of Lis undor grad- uato life he saye, ** [ maid my prayers und road tho criptures, but had uo notivn of iuward holi~ uesa; usy, went on very cunteutealy fu somo or other known ein.” We tase this with maoy ginins of allowance, for verv good incu huve uli- wn s vors bad fsucy for speakiog ill of them- seilves, ‘Tho ouly special wivs of which wo flud auy wention arg that ha trauslated o willy poem abont & fHea crawling upon tho neck of o lovely womanm, znd now and then ran & hittlo juto debty but, as the in- come of his gcholaiship was only £40, and a8 _ bis debis appear not to have awmounuted to moro than £iU & year, the offeuso 18 10t & very heincus oue, though the dlacharge of them bors hieavily npon the poor vicar of Eps worth, Oxford with no purporo of ‘tvf-i“é'nmd”“"“ o iho herneal bf Ahionias onterin, y N ttho B e Marior indnced him. 1o & Komya auil Dishon undne:zo bis 1ifa to tho rorvica of tiod. At 42 be waa ordsined deacon; txv months aflersard ho wan cliosen follow of Liscoin Collego; and wmithin another six montha lecinrer in Greok and moderator ot tho classes, At 23 Joln Wea- loy was bho RISING 3AX OF WIS COLLEAL. Ho laid dosn for himeelf a etrict course of study. Monidays and Lucsidays swere devoted o the Greokand Latiu classics, \lenuxlrlfu tolopio aod othics, Thursdays to flovrew and Adabic, TFrnys to motaphyaies and natural philosophy, Haturdays to oratory and pooiry, Buudays to di- winity; at odd bours bo studiod Froneh, sud amused himsel! with mathemalics and optios, 1lis vocation seomnad Lo bo that of o schoiar and orator : i it scewed {hnt thors was aleo tn bim tho material for tho making of & Bishop. But tho viear of Bpwurth lad a sttoko of palsy, and at 24 John Wostoy left sulioge, much ngainst bis inclination, and Lecanio his father's curato at Wiooto, a wrotehed place, surroundod with bugs, tho 4o of which wora ** unpolishad wights, dutl as assos, with licads asimpot vious as stones.” ‘Thero ho remnined more than two yoats, “1I preached niuch,” hio says, ** but. BAW NO FIUIT OF MY 1.ATOR” From Wrouto ho was rocalled ta Oxford, for overy fellow of tha collezo was bound to perform certaln dutics, eithor persoually ur by suvetiunte. Wesley couid tind no nubstitute, and niist per- } form theso dutics In posson. Theds collegiato duties wera to give privatoiustruo fon to studen's and £ preside vver tue dutly dobates i tuo col- lego hiall, llero he rewnlued six years. ‘A yoar bofora Johu Wenloy wons to Wroots, hiy trother Charlea had como to Uxford. Not long bofore, wuila ko was at achuo', whore big wainlenance pressed hard upon Ius father's sranty meaus, tho vicar of Lpworih yecolved o letter from Guriett Wallesloy, a woaltny Iri man and distant kinsman, assing it ho had not n sou nawod Chaslea ; 1f no, he would pay fur bia education, amd probably adopt bim as his heir. Wltrn Charles \yesioy wont to Oxford hy wos a tively Iad of 18, who had no intontion of becoming » eaint sll at oace.” Whilo Johu waa at Wroots Garrott Wollesley camo to Oxfoid and propoeed that Charles should accompauy b to Irclaud, Tho ofer was declined, for the mesntimo a grcat chiauge kad comne ovor the mind of tho young men. o sad scma oiber students bad formed themeelves iuio A KIND 0 BELIGIOUS ASJOCIATION. Qarrest thereupon adopted ms his heir another kinsmau, ficbkard Cotloy cr Cowtoy, who took thename of Wollosley, He, in tune, wascre- aced Las! of Mornington, and became tho failier of the Marnis of Wells.oy, ono of tho grestast of tho Brt.sh Governors-Ueneral of Iuuia, aud ot tlnt Arthur Welleslos whom o best kuow as tho Dulie of Wellington, Boulliuy writes: *Jlad Charlea Wesoy mnde s different choico thero misht have Leon no Meihudiels; tho Dritish Lwgivo 1 India might still have been mennced from Seringapatam, snd Napoleoa mipght at this time Lave msulled and menacod us from our own sliores,” 1ad Charlos Woasloy becomo su Irish Iandlord, tho church ocatholic would doublless have lost its greatest hymuigt; for o has wiitten mure good bymus acd Bpir- 1tual sougs than any other wan; aud i one woro to namo tuo three best 1n any language, Lo mads ivciude at teant one ey Ouarles Wesloy, Jotin Wesloy, upun his roturn to Usford, be- camo a momber, aud 3u o surt the leader, of tho rzligious baud of students. Thoy mot daily for prayer and consultation, talked withtheir felow- studonts, taughs tho 1gnoraut, prosched to piis- oness, aided tho lnuur. aud ea:h gave anasall s incoms beyoud what hia absolutely needed. Lac thiesr mest serikeug eharactoutstic wad that thev suught to regularo their hves by strict rale aod motbod. Sowoe college wit NICRNANED THE)M METIIODISTS ; the name took, aud they never vared to dlsown it. Lut saving tho ona polut of endeavoring for a loly lifs for theweselves nnd urguwg (¢ upon otbars, tho Oxford Motbodisn of 173 Lnd few foatures in common with that great institution which we kuow by that nawo, In ali respects the membets adhered to tuo doctrinos and 1itual of the Estavlisied Church, ‘Cuey acknowledged the Apostolio, the Nicene, and the Athanaeinu creeds ; they held to the thirty-uine ar ticlos snd the homilies; they fasted rigor- ously in Leut, aud gave to the cucharist a roverenca bardly less ihan that inculcatad by the ClLurch of Rume, ‘Lhey all were, eays Wesley, ** in tho strongest seuse High Ubwrch- mon ;* they would have boow siyled Ritualists in the phirass of our day. Dut Johu Wesloy at 27, and indeed for all bis life, was Irs frow saascotic. Mo was emiuently haudeomo, well-bred, and of geninl mauness. Among bis scquaistances was Jra, Penaarres, o widow of U0, belonging to gue of tho uoblest famlies of the Kivgdum, and ususlly calied by her maiden uama of Mary Graaville, Eho had s sister whoso pet name was Bolius, Wesley cor- responded wish thess ladios, In accoruaice with &4 common custom of tho timo they ay- sumed fletitious namos, Wesloy was Uyrus, Charles wag Araspes, the widow wad Aespasia, Oyrus had gent one of his sormous to As- pasla. dho returng it with expressions of ratituds for the * eclogant enlertamment ™ ahe fi:d 1cceived, not only from tho sermon, but from * tho couversation which you aud your brother made =0 agreeablo,” uud liopes they may ®oon mcet again, Selina addy ix o postscript that Aspasin i about fo visit Batk, and i Cyrus dosired to wait upon bier Lo bad bettor writo and akcortaln her movoments. ‘the corespoudoucs wont on swimmingly, and certainly assumed A RATUER AMATORY PORAL Cyron writes: ** Ol that var fricudship (sloce you give mo leave to uss 8o dear & word) may Lo built upon o firm foundation! 1f it bo a fault to have too harmonious & aoul, too exquisite a seuse of clognn:.kfienunms 1ransport, thon In- docd I must oww tiers 14 an obyious fault both in Seliua and Aepasia. If noy, I faucy ono mny reconcils whatever thoy thiuk or act to tho atrictest roason, uuters it ba their entsrtalning 5o favorable an ul-lulou of their moat obligéd and most faithful Uyrus.” Again: “Is fu a fanlt to desite to’ recommond myself to thoso who g0 strongly recommeud Vvirtus to me? ‘Tell iny, Aspasia, lell me, Belna, if it ba a fault that my hoars burus within mo whon [ reflect upon the inuy marks of rezard you bave alrendy showil.” Aspasla inquices wheiber ic 13 pm}lcr for her to attend a Buuday evenlng con- cort. Cyrns does not think tndt ‘any * cfreum- uvtance {0 lifa alall ever give tho euemy au ad- vautage over Aspasia,” Cyrus ins beon chargod with belng too strice in matters of religion, and wixhes Aspaeia to givo him ber opinton aud ad- vice. ler reply Is farly gusiivg: *‘Lhoim- putation throwa upon you {d a mudl ottraordi- uary ono, Ol Usrus, low noble a doleuss you maio, aud how you ara sdorned with tho bosuty of holinces (¥ Notling came of thia love passage, it it really wero one, Wesley appesrs obuui this time to have come to tle opinion thiaé it was botler that clergymen should not marry. Indeed; thai was alwaya bLis wspeculative dpioion; though in his own cano, a8 we shall aee, ho throo timbs madedn exception, and thereby & CAME TO OREAT GRIEP, Mary Grauville remainod s widow for a dozen ytary, and theu mavrled Patriek Delany, su Irish eat, who hiad becotno el br having marned o wealthy widow, Toung ufter this sho published o couplo of gucabiograplical volumes, Qood old Bamizel Wesley died in 1735, hin pal- sled haud baving Just vritten tho lust pages of lus ** Diraerintiones in Librum Jobi,” Jlia wid. ow and daughtera wero left doatitate, aud appli- catlos was msde in bolalf of John Wesley for the vacaut liviog of Bpworth, 'Ihis was in the gift of the Orown, bus the Bishop of London was usnslly consulted in such masters, Ho Liad been heard” to say somathing unlavorn- ble tbout Wesioy Iu connection with Alsit otism, ond the multer foll throuxh, Tho Methodist band at Oxfoid broke up, moat of the members going to their Revoral avocatious In life, While on u vieit to Lontion tho two Wosloys fell in with Dr. Jolm Burton, who was looking out for somo ous o go s mis- sloumly to the fufant colony of Georglia. IHo urged tho work upon Jobn Wesley, * Plausiblo tu?] ])upuhr ductors of divinity," Lo wroto ‘' ara .uot the oues wanted; buk mon fnured to con- tgpt ot the ornawonts aud conveniences of 1%, to bodily austeritics and sorious thouwlts.” Wesloy took brief timo for consideration, 1o anked tue consent of his nowly-widowed mother, She roplied, *Had I twonty sous 1 should re- Joice ii thioy wero all do nm;ltzyud." In nixteon deys after (he offer was mads the two Wonloys, sccompanied by two of the Oxfurd baud, Dovja- min lugham nud Charlen Delawotte, EMUARKED FOIt (EORUIA, Deforo they uailod thoy had drawn up a solema gumpact thiat nolther of them should undostake unytblog of importance without flrat conaulting tho others 3 Mf there was a differcoce of ‘opintou, any one sbould yiold to thie othier thres ; If they woad two and two, the matter should be declded by lot, atter hn‘:glnfi Gud's direction, On board tie vewsol vers alio Jumes Ugilutlmrw. tho founder of the colouy, and thirty Moravisu e~ grants, letdod by David Nitachwuiann, their Ihstiop. ‘Thoy embarked at Gravossnd, Oct, 14, 1725, but wore detained sb the Dovas until Dece 10, and cast anchor 1 Ssvaunah Biver ¥ob, 5, 1738, Wesley himeelf gives tho reasous which fn- duced Jum Lo uudertako iho miseion to Georgla. *+ My cluef wotlvo is the bopo of HAYING MY OWN BOUL, 1 bope to learn tho troe eonso of the Gospol of Cbriet by preaching it to the heathen, I have no pasty, uo iotorent to euvo, and foro Mk 10 Fecoive the Goupel in ita Thoy ars as little childion, humblo, willing to learn and oager todotho will of God, A right faith will, I trust, open tho way for a right prao- {1eb, espocially whion mont of tho temptations aro romoved, thich ao easlly besot mo hiero. It will be no amall thing to bo able, without giving of- Ienae, to live on water and tho frints of tho eartl, Au Indian hnt affords no food for cu- rivsity, no gratifieatlon of tho desire of grand, or now, or praity things, Thio pomp and show of tho woild hiave no place i the wilda of America, Ihave been a prisvous sluner from my youth ap, and am yet Iaden with foolsh and burtful derires. 1 'cannot hopo fo aftain tho samo degree of holingss_lers shich I may thero, I ahall loso nothing I desiro to keep. [ elinll have fooul to cat and ratment to put on, hnd if any man liave n deaito of other fhings, Int him know (bt tho grentest Llessing thiat ean poseibly bo- {all him {8to bocnt off from all occaslonn of grati- fying thoso desires which, unless spoedily root- r[d out, will drown his soutl in everlastiog pordi- on, Wealoy waanot long In dlscovoring that his porpose’of preaching to the Indtana was futile, ‘Lhey were scatterod through tho wide forests and could hardly ba found, and when fonud showed 1o disposition to histen to hun, Mo be. camo iu offact meroly tho chaplaln to tho colo- nista, 6von lenrning Spauish that Lo might pench toa bandful of Jonws who wero among tuem, Ho was siill AN EXTREME RITUALIST, and gave o litle offenso by Luw strictnesy, One virago whom he bad rocroved flung bim down lmlemfireu cloge the fluwing locks from one eldo of his head, Tho next Sunday he proached with bis linsir loog on ono riils aud short on the otner. Chntley \chluy and Ivgham 1aturncd to Enzland in s fow months. Jobm réemmmed in Georgls about two yoars, Ihs depariuro was directly occasloned by a matter hardly to i crodit, Soplita Fopkey, & nieco of the principal magls- trato, was young, pretty, and intolligent. Wesicy was plonsed with her an:d sho with bim, Sho dresged in while bocause hio hked it. and regn- Iated bior habite by his advice ; ie fell sick, and sho nursed bim, "Ho mado up his mind to marry her, Delamotto apposed the idea of a marriage; Wesloy submiited the queation to tha Moraviau oldars, who advised him 1o procoed no furthor in tho mattor, **'Lhe Lord’s will be done," ropiied Wosloy; but he was in a sore strait. Bophia was naturally piqued, and hastlly engaged uor- felt to ono Wikilam Willixmson, and the mar- ringo took place March 12, in four days, Weslay mn the mozntime having vainly urged ber 10 hrel:lxk the engogomen: and marry him. Wesloy mado TIHIS CURIOUS ENTRY in his jommal: “Feb. 5~-Ono of the most remarkabla dispensationa of 'rovideuco toward me began Lo show ifsolf this doy, For many daysafter I could not at all judge which way tho rculo wonld turn ; nor was it fiily determined till March o, on which day Crod catimanded me to pull out my right oye; aud by His grace I determined to do ro; but boiug s'ack in the exccution, on Mon- day, March 12, God beiug vory merciful to me, wy frioud performod what [ could wot." Aud again: *March 8, Miss Sophy engaged Leraell to Mr. Villlnmeon, a porson not romarkable for handsomeness, neither for greatness, neither for wit, or knoweledge, or senso, and lesst of all for rofigion ; and ou Satnrday, Match 13, thoy ware marsied, ths belug tae day which completed tho year froin 1y frst speaking to hor. What Thon doest, O, Uod, I koow not now, but 1 ehall kuow nereatter.,” About this timo, and doubtloss in roference to this transactiou, Wouloy wiote the well-knowu byniv beginning s 18 there a thing Leacath the aitn Tuat strives with Thee my beart (o share; Ob, teur it theuce, and reiga alone, 1y Lord of cvery motion there, Forly-nina years later Wexloy, then mora than fourscore, aud having gono throuch another eimilar oxperlouce, wroto: ** I remomber when I read those murds in tho cluroh of Savannal, +¥ou ot wan, I taks from theo the desito of thine eyes with a stroke,' I waa pierced through 58 with' a award, acd could nob ultor a word maoro,” Willinmson grew fealous of Woaley, and for- bado his wifo fo speak Lo him or attond big ser- vicea; she absented bLorsell from church for a time, aud Wesley refuscd to admit her to the sxorament, wheraupon her hustand brought an action againss bim, layiog hisdamages at .L1,000. ‘The geuceal conduct of \Wealey was brought bo- fore the Urand Jury, who FOUND A DILL: OF INDIOTMENT containing ten specitications, Nina of these volated 1o roly ccoieslaatical matters ; but the tenth charged Wesley wuh miscon- duct which *‘occasiousd much upeasiness be- tween Boplia Williameon and ber Lusband." Ho tefused Lo pload to any excost thin spgrifica- tion, upou which bo domanded an immediato trial. "Lhhis was put of for moro than threo months, sud"Westoy announced bis_detérmina- tion to retura ot once to Bugland, He wag sam- raonod L0 give bail to answer (o Lo suid of Will- inmson ; tols lio tefused, and tho sciinels were ordored to pravont him ftom leaving Bavabunb, Ono Decomber eveuiug afier publio prayers, Wealoy slipped away 1n o boat rawed by four fel- lows wham Lo bad fired to essist him, aud wero auxious to got away from thelr creditors, Theun they took to tho swamp, whore thoy came near perishing of huager and cold, but siter Lot days succecded in reachnvg Charleston, whenco Wes- loy sot mail for Engiind. The voyage lasted uoarly seyen weeks, Westoy's miselon to Geotgia had turned out A PAILURE IN EVELY WAY, Ho Lid failed in preaobivg to the Indiana; he 1ad failed as chaplain ta the colonlsts; and, worst of all, be had in his own deliborate judg- mout failed ju the effort to save his owa sonl. In a carefully penned documont be says: *' By the most iufallible proofs, inward fealing, I am couvinced of unbellef: of pride throughout my lifo past; of gross irrecolloction ; of fiwitynml luxurianco of wpirlt, I went to Amerion to con- vert the Indiavs ; but ob, who shall convert mée? Alisnated 28 [ fron the lifo of God, Iama cirlld of wrath, and helr of hieil’ Yonrs after, iuderd, ho hiad, a8 wa thiuk, very good resson to couclude that ho was wrong in this cstimate of Ius spicifual stato ot that time, But for many years no bolieved thiat bis conversion did not gkalle:]cs uutil fonr mouhs alter his raturn to ingland. Iiu thonght that belog without falth ho ought toloavo off preaching, and asked the advice of the Moravinu, Poter Lobler, Tie reply was, ‘i Preach fmith until you have it, and then bo- cauge you haveit you wil vreach it,” Andso Wealoy weut ou proaching, siill belioving him- goif to Ls unconverted. Wado noi venturo (o atiempt a_definition of tho scnsy inn which ho utderstaud the term, Ha fixes y _ THE DATE OF IN8 CONYERSION ma May 24, 1738, Saversl of hig frionds had *'embracod the dootrive of salvation by fsith only. Charlos Wesloy also, on Wuit-Sunday, May 21, wan made a jartaker of the same groat bletsing, aud wag filled with love and joy. Wealey Inmsell was sull o wmourner. Threo 1nore days_of anfimeh woré thus passed ; and then, on May 3, atv 6 In the mornlng, he opened hin Teatament on these worda: ‘‘Lheio are given unto us oxceeding preat aud preciots promises, that by these yo ntiptic bo madd par- takiers of the Diviuo batiire.! Un leaving hitmo hocpaued un the text, * Thou att not fur from thie kingdom of (Jod.' fp tho afternvon o went to 8t, Paut's Cathedral, swhero tho anthem wos fulf of comfort. At mght ho went to s society meotitig in Alderszate streot, where o persoh rodd Luther's nrefats fo the Epistle to the 1lo- indng, In whicli Lutlior teaches wihiat falth 1s, and sluo that faith alone fuallll 1" Whilo this was being road Wesloy oxhbriengod AN AMAZING CHANGE, 2 Ho wilteas * I lelt iny hoai bstrangely warmed, 1felt 1dld truse iu Christ alone for salvation § and an assarauca was given mothat He hidd tazen sway my 8ius, ovoh wmive, and saved me {rom the law of sin and death ; aud I then tostifled npuuly toall thora what L now tirit folt ln y neart,” Toward 1¢ a’clock a troop of irtenda took Lim to Ly brotliorj they saug o bymn with joy, xud then parted witk praver, But that samo night he + was wuch bulfeted with tomptations ;" the du; after the ** enemy injectod a four that Ius fait was not real ;" the soxtday ** Lis soul continvued in peace, but yeb in heaviitees, becaurs ot mante told temptations.” Ou o dlst be “ gileved tho Hpirlt of (od not only by fot watching uuto piayer, but likanldo by epoaking witl sharpness, instend of tonder love, of ono who was not sound in the faith.’” Eight months Jator Lo writes of limselft * My friends aliirm I ain mad bo- causo { sald I wau not a Christaln a yearago, I aftirm 1 AX NOT A ONRIBTIAN NOW, Thet I am uot s Christion at this day, I as as- suredly know as thet Jesus ie the Christ, For a Chistian fn one who Lag tho frulls of the Bpirit of Christ, which (to montion no more) aro love, veacs, joy. Duttheso Ihave not, I Lave nob aoy love of God, 1o nat lave elther tho Father or the Son, From houco { coneluds, thougl 1 bavo given and do give all my goods to fuod tho poor, 1 am fiot a Chrlstlan. "Though 1 Dave covsinutly used all the incans of grace for twonty yesrs, [ am not a Christian.”" 'f'o all ‘whicii, ‘mua tnuch wmore to iho sume purport, -wo can ouly szy wlhat cne of Lis ftionds eaud to him: *If you kave nut beon o Clristiun over eiuce [ havo Luown you, you luve Leon a groat bypourite § for you made us all be- Hove you wero ouo,” On 'bia yoyage to Ametlée, dusing his vesldence there, and alior his return to Eoglond, Wesloy Lied been thromn much into thse scciety of tho Moravions, aud threo wocks after bis couversion beset out for Herrobut, iu Germany, to sjudy their dactrines ot the fountain head, ITo roe mained thres tmonths, and was much delignted, though not a little puzzled, at nome things. On Lis rotarn o connected himaclf with o littlo Moravian aociety In London, for nloee une ho compiled a small hrmn hook, containing sovanty he'mua. About halt «f thess swors by Walts, Wesley furnishing elx transiations, Thoro was not a five from Charles Wealoy, Thislittlobook was notablo as having been tho fieat of forty hymn books propared duting tho next balf con- tury by one or buth of the brothers, \Vemioy was suill, nud tundecd profoaeed all his 1ifo to be, . A MENXDER OF TINE CHUROK OF ENGLAND, Ifo prenclicd whonever a chireh was cpenoidt to hi. Theso grow fewer and fower, aud bofure tho ctose of 1740 thoro were only throa in Lone don, aud three more in all Eogland, to nhieh ho was admitted. \Yhitotleld, who lad returned from n llying vieit to Amerlea, waa at first moto fortunate, In tho fivet tive weoks of the yenr ho preached thivty-nine timea to London, 1is won- det ful eloquenco (or ruthor, wo might say, clo- cution) producedl a greas effect. He then sst off for tho nest of Eugiand. Ina fow wocka alt the churchios but two weto cloned to him. Tha Chancellor of the Dioceso of Dristol wayned him thet it bo proachiod any moro it 1hio Dioceso withe out n liccure, ho should Lo suspended or ex- nelled, tlo took lira at this, and on the 17th of TFebrinry ho went to Kingswood, wheis lo preached 1 tho open a'r to 200 collioiy, Tho scrvices wero continued to largely-fue creased audionces. At the fifth thera weio 10,000 lhearers, If from all years, and all days of the ycar, wo wora to chigoso the ouo which shiould bo TIE METHUDIST ANNIVERSARY, it shonld te this 17th day of February, 1739, for on that day for the {irst fimo a elergyinan of the Tstabliglicd Church preached, {n’deflance of - Luiscopal prohibition, outside tho walta of a con- secrated building, Wosloy followed Whiteflold to Iiistol, and on tho 3d of April preached Ins firat wpen-mir eermon. I could,” ha wrote, * wcarco reconcilo myself at first to this stiauvo way of p:reaching in the fields; Laving boon all my hife, till very lately, 80° tonaclons of every rolnt rolating to decency and ordor, that I ahould iave thouplit the saving or souts almost a sla 1f 16 had not been doue Iu a chitech.” o soon found mcaus to justify himsoif to bimeell., IHo was an ordained priess, and as such Lo wiites: *Qod, in Betpture, commands mo, sccording to my power, to 1ustruct the iguorant, reform tho wicked, conllrm the virtuous, Man forbids mo to do thls in anothor's parieh: that 19, 1 offent, not to do Ik at all, ‘sosing I nave now no pansh of my own, nor probably never shall. \Whom, thon, slall I hear—God, or man:" ‘L'lsen fo.iows tha famous sentenco, ** I lookupon all tho world a8 my parieh; thus far, I mean, that in whatever part of it I am, 1 judeo iv meot, snd my bounden daty to deslare un:o all :.'!mt aro willing to hear the glad tidings of salva. fon. We do not proposo to attempt tha large work of doserlbing tho - DISE OF THE MLTIODIST INSTITUTION ; to ehow how trom a foeble roob it came to its prosent stately growth, 'To it may be fitly ap- phiorl the magnilcont wards of Coloiidgorespocts ing tha upgrowing of cvil liberty and law: ¢ Whonco did this organlzation come? Was it a ireo transplanted from Paradiso with all ity brauches in full irmatage? Was it sowod in the suushins 2 Wua it 1o vernal breezes uad gentla rains that b fixed its roots avd arow and elrengehenod ? With Dblood was it plauted ; 1t was socked in the tempests; the gont, tho nes, and the stag guawed it ; the wild buar has whet tod bis tus<s on it4 bark. Tho deop scars aro still extunt on its trunk, aud the path of tho lightnivg may bo traced on its higher bianchos, Aud sveu aftor ita full growth, in tho sewson of its strougily, whon its hoight 1eached to ke licavens and the Lreadth theroof to all the eartly, (he whirlwind has mors than onco forced fts stately top to touch the grouud. 1t has bout like the bow and sprung back liko the shaft, Mightler powers were at work than mere oxpe- diency over called up; yea, wighlier than the mero nnderstanding can comptéhend.” Of ull those mighty powers . THUC MIGITIEST, raving only thit of tha [uflnito, was John Wos- ey, ,I!unrllehlu, tha scens of Wozloy's eatly labors, v7as then a kind of open pari Iaid out {n Rruss lots with brond gravel walks. Ifere, and on {ennington Common ard Blackbeath, Whito- tleld began to preach lmmedlately on bis roturn trom Dristol, flis sudicnces were soon num- bered by thousands and scores of thousands, Ouce on Kenmnglon be computed thers woio 50,000, and oncn {u Meorllolda 60,000. It a fow weeks o net off on his sccona voysge to Awmer~ 1ea, ntid Wesioy took nlx b1y weth iu earnost, | dho Moravian Soclety formed thy nutlens around shich the elements of tho new organiza- tlon began to cryatallize. Scatterod also haro and there thioughous Englaud wero small bauds of obacitre men and wotnen who met for prayer and exhortation. Wesley soon began his courso of Journeys and preachings, and cach of theee Iittle bands Leeame a now centra. Dristol waa ono of tls earliest of these. Tho Bishop TLOR WESLLY 70 TASK, “I hear that you admivister the sacra. ment in your goclotics,” eald (he prolate. “1 nover did vot, and { belioys I never ehall," re- ]ulicd Wesley. *‘Ilbeoar that miany poopls fall fito fils in your societios, and that you pray aver thom#” ' Ldoeo when sny show by strong crios snd {oars that thelr souls are in desp angulehr y and onr prayer is often heard,” * Vo extiaordinary indeed ; sud tow, since you asl my advice, I'nill giva 1t froely. You hove no budlngss herd; you sro fiol commissioned to proach in this diocass, Thorefors, I advise you to go houeo," “Aly Lord,” rojoined Wesley, * myy businsea on oarth 18 to do wuat good I can, Wherever I thlnk I can do moat good, thero I must slay 20 long as I think eo, At pressnt I think I cin du most good hoto; hireiore, heio 1 stay. Being ordoined a priess, by the commis- sion I then rocetved | am a pricst of the Church utiivetsal; and belng orddlned as » follow of a collego, 1 way not_limited to any particainr ouro, bau bave, &2 Iudoiorminato commis. sioiv. ta preach Yo Word of God in any part of the Chiurcli of England. T conceive not, thero- fore, that in prosching hore by this commiseion I break any buman law. When I am convineed thint I do, thon f¢ will bo timo to ask, Shalt T nhni God or man? DBut if I shonld be convinced in tho moanwhile that I could advance tha glory of Uod aud tho salvation of souls in dny other placo mora tlinn v Bristal, in that Lour, by God's help, I will go benco ;which till then I 31ax Noz po,” Ho tominlied In antl near Biistol for abiotit nive monhs, avery night preaching and expoundivg 1o {ho nociatle which wera sptiinging up, Kiugs. wood, not far froni Bristol, whero Winteflold lid preached his thist outduny sermon, had furmotly been a royal chas of (ures or four thousaud ucrea; but it Lad beon giadually approprated by soveral nobles whoaa cat oucirclod ft. ‘f'te doer had dlnr;vnmd. end most of tho forosts had bgen cub_down, Cosl had boen dis- covered, and tho rogion occupled by cofllors, who formod a peculiae psoplo, ignoract aod brutat, whote very lungusge was bLardly miel- lipglble !n_lheu neighbors, Bix wooks from (ho thne wheu ho pronchied Lis frst sotnjon thore Wealey had collccted £30 tusard the exection of o schioot, and four days after tho foyndatione o was lald, Boon after hs began tho crece tion of o room in rlstol lurfiu onough to accom- modata twd of tne lltile kocletion, Towmd tlio close of {ho yvear bo tefurncd fo London, pur- chagod a riinous old building which hisd been used as & caunon-foundry, and proceadad to it it up a8 & place of worshlp, ‘Tt whole cost way £800, of wlich in sbout threo rears L1580 Lad been raised by subscription ; Wealay, wlioss ouly incoma was hiw Oxford follawahip, runping in dobt for tho romnfinder. When completad, It was & pount atricfore wich two deors, one mudluu to the chapel, which woakd hotd 3,500 perzops, the othor tou the preachers’ housge, sohool, and oand- room, Ovortho baud-room wore plain apart. onts for tho use of Wesloy, In tbo chapel tho tunles and females sat abart, T'ltorc wasalso bo- ford long a book-roum for the sala of Wesloy's publications. This was tho FIHST MU LUODIST MERTINU-TOUSE IX LONDON and liero, in June, 1744, was held tho firet w'n- forouco, which gave formal sbapo to the new ine stitution. 1t was outuposed of tha two Weslove, tour othior clorgymen of tho Chutrch of Engjand, and four lay proachers, It was vosolved a3 this conferenos to defond the dectrineof the Churchof Eugland by preach- iug aud oxamplo; to obey the liishops in all things indiiferent ; to obsurve the canous as far na they could with asato consclouco; and toexert thomesclves to tho utmose not to entail a sxlilsw Iu tho Oluel by forming themsolves {nto o dlstinot eect, ‘Thoy hotd shewmelven, and Weeloy to the oy of bis death keld bimuelf, tnembers of the nutional churcl, Lay assistants wore aliowable only lo cases of necesstty, ‘Lhelr duties wera to oxponnd monun;&mul evening; to keep a poversl watch over the bands aud socletics : sl above all to sulimit thomeelved whally to Wealoy's or- dery. 'I'hoy must nut marry, receive monoy, nor contract debty witbout hls knowledgo ; must go whare lie geut (hewm, aitd omploy thelr Simo s fio directed, This nuymu\:w{ curter-itono upon wisich Metlodism sfosted, No Logo, no Buperior of the Order of Jeauits, ever claitued or exercisod MORE ANSOLUTH CONTROL thian did the founder of Methodism, Tu the lust year of bia lifo his wrotay *In the groat revival it Londot my fivat dificully wau to brng inlo tewmpur those who aplxuaed the work ; aud wmy next (o clieck aud regulate (he extravegsuge of thoss that _promcted b And this way far tho lardest part of wy wory, for many of Woutey wau tho, of them could bear no chock at all. Towed broak,' Tho early records of Mothodlam are full of meation of monihord of tho aoctety who, {rom ona causa or anuthor, refused to oboy Wesloy's directions, and went away or woro expelled fromn the bands, Dul from fitet to last Warley nover biesitated or faltered, o was qulct and gentle, but immovable, Il prew up to tho greatneas of his wark., ‘I'ne heavier was tho 1oad, the more it steadicd him: and, when tho cara of alltha Mothodist churchies .1n Lngland, HScotland, Wales, Ireland, and Amorica realcd on his shonis dera, he did not ssem to feol the weight of tho burdon, Tho history of tho early years of Motundism roads Jike & new volumo oOf the Acts of tha Apos- tles, Its preachors wero insulted and mobbod, FINED AND 1MPIISONLD. But T fol- oue tule. ‘You must oithor boud or They wore lampoonod fn pamphlots, and vilitied from pulpits, T'he socictics grow sionly, In 1770, thirly yenrs mftor their’ first organization, thero wore 29,011 Mothodists In Ureat Dntain and Ireland, and porhinps a scaro in America. {u 1780 thero nera iu Lhe United Kingdom 43,830, In America 8,504, 1n 1700, the year befora Wenlov's doath, thero woip 1y Great Dritaln and Iiclund, 71,0685 in America, 57,631, In 1370 tho membets of tho Motloaist sociclics in Great Dritain were about 150,000 fp Amaricn, abiout 2,800,000, 1lud Wes- loy beon succooded in Lingland by such s man ny Lranciy Asbury, ove can acarcoly dount that tho growth of Methotism in LEngland would have kop:;um with {8 growth fu Americn, 'Lhat day in 1771 when Fraucis Asbury, (he son of o poas- ant, was sont with Richard Wright ** as a vein- forcomant to Ameries,” shonld be inarked with & white stono in the Methodist ealondsr. No ado- quate lifa of Asbnry hns over boou written ; per- Liaps nouo over can bo, for is solomuly enjoived fhat nono shoutd be publirned. It 18 doubtinl mndeod whather any faithful portrait of m is oxtaut, 1lie best montument 18 tho Mothudist Lpiscopal Cnurch tn Antorica: and THEWE CAN D& NO NODLER ONE. In the Mothodist Church thoro Lave baen rents aud divisions onough, tho noars of which stitl 1eiuln on tuo trunk sud branches of tuo stately treo. The fivet, snd perbaps wost nota- blo, was wlhion a part of tho soclety went off with | Whitatield, and » part remaiued with Wesley, Wes:oy had from tho tiree rej:cted wint by way | of distinction may bo_called tho Calvinistio of rodemption. Whitefletd maintaloed it. #3 1739 Wesley bindg proachiod a sermon tas Uraco,” which ho had in mind to Whitetlold ondosvored to dissuado him Woasley tut tho question to on print, trom doing this. lot, and the answor wue, *‘Preachs ond Print,” In tbis germon Woslcy dofiues the Calvinistic doctiine, by nlhat name siever called, . to bo that, * DBy virtuo of au oleinal, unshavgea- ble, irreaistiblo decrco of God, ono part of mankiud nre infaliibly saved, nud tho rest tlallitly damned ; it being impossible that any of tho furmor shonld be dumued, ot that any of the latter should bo savad.” Ifo sums up his objections to thia dootrine under olght lcads, | tho Jast of whict 181 **Itis full of blasphemy § for it ropresents our blessed Lord ne n hiypocrite and digsembler, in eaving one thing snd moean- ing another; In protending to love which he bad not. Jt also represunts the moxt holy Uod ns mere fulsa, moro cruel, and more unjust than the dovil; for, in point of fact, it says that Gud naa condemnod milllons of souls to evorlasting fira for continuing 1n sin, whicl, for want of the peaca ho gives them not, huy aro unablo to | avord, J'uts is tho blnpl}cmy clouly contained in the hernblo docreo of predestina‘ion. And here I fix my foot; you repiesent God AU WONISH THAN ‘TNE DEVIL.” Ha:d words thess, 1t wbald be hnrd to find harder by which to dealgnato the rites of Moloch, | of Kali, cr of Juzgeroaut. Yet theas, and much moro to the samo purpoit, aro the words by whioh Westoy dosignates a doctrino held by & groat majority of tho Chrlstian tworld as ono of the vital dactrives of Clufetianity. 'ilio disputo thus opencd lasted for yoars, “Lho immediato result was, s described by Wosley: **'I'hose who Lold aniversal redomption lind o desiro to sovaratoy bub thoss wlio held particular se- dewpiion would not hear of auy accommodation, boing_detormived to bave no fellowsip with men that wore in such *dangerous orrors.’ Ho there wera uow two sorts uf Methodista: thoso for partioular, sud thoso for goueral rodemp- tion.” 1f thoologians are to ho held, like otlisr meh, {o the pisin mecamng of their deliborate words, it is nut csay to seo how Wenloy and his followera could hiold sy followship with thoso, one of whoee vital teuats they considored thus blasphiemous, and having alio, ns bic aays in the same mcimon, *‘a mamlest tondency to ovor- throw the whale Christian revelation,” In 1749 oceurred AN ODD EFISODE = in Wenloy's life. On ono of his minslonnry jout- nays he had boon tahen siok at Newcastle, whore lie'was nursed by Grace Murray, ono of hia fe- male * bolpets,"'s handsomo, clever widow, of four-and-thirty, Wesloy himsolf belng twelve soars older. He asked her to matry bim. Sl seemod umazed, and replied, *Thiuia too great, n blesdlng. Ican't {oll how to boheve it Tuis 14 a1 T cold hava wishod under heaven,” Wes. loy, quite naturally, took this as o formal be- trothal., Dut Grace hind not long before nursed Johu Benuett, a_Mothodist preaolier, of about her own ugo ; and Wesloy was soon astounded b4 a joint lettor from CGraco and John, asklug his cousent to theif marrlage. 'Thou ensucd o comedy Insting for muuths, the Liko of which no playwright bas ventured to put upon tlio stage, Graco would have boen quito content with olthor of lier Jovors, werd it not for tho other. Dut, contrary to all example, it was the absant ouo thom shio wanted, Wuon Wosloy was with hier sho longed for Bonnett : when Dennott was mbschit eho lomged for Wéaloy, Illow many timea tho broke and renewed lor enzagemont with bagti it yould bo b to toll. 4 I fova you,” she said to Wesloy, *a thousand times better thon I over loved John Benuott; but Iam afraid it I don't macey him he'll run mad.” That very oveniugshie promissd horself again to Den- nelt. A week after slie Lold Wesley slis was de- termined to live aud dio with him, Bho indeed wauted to be married at onge, but Wesley wished for some defay, Ciracs sald she woutd nob walt mora than & yoar, A fortoight Intor she mot Dennett, foll at his feet, and acknowledged that she had used bim 1, THEY WBRE MARRIED . ‘This strange marilage hoenis to havs turned otit n hippy one. Donnett died in the triumphs of faith ten yeas luter. Grace survivod uutll 1803, dying at tho ageof 87. Ior yenrs sho was a biight light the Methodist sbdiaty. Wesléy saw hor thros dayd atter her marriago, and but ouco imore on oartl. Thirty-uine yoors after, shio camo to Londoii on a visit_to” hor sun, and expressed a wishi to eéa Wesley, I1la wna 85 yeats old, she past 70, What codld thev row Havo td by, oxcopt * Hail and farawell " ? Weeley comforted himself much as he had aweek after. ! who had anothar wifo, done in the caso of Sophia Hopkey. IHa wroto to hls brother: “Binco I was 0 yeais old I never mat with such n sovore trlal, I thought I Liad made all sare beyond & dangerof divappoiut- ment. But wo wero soon after toin asunder as by a whirlsiud. 1 fasted apd prayed, ‘I'ion was the word [iilfilled, 'Son of man, behold I take froth thee iho desito of thihe eyes at o stroko.! Dut why ehonld 4 living man complsn?—a man for, the punizhment of biy wins#"* lle olso wrole a bLymn on the occasion, i sorrow mues have been pro. found, it it was meosurcd by the leugth of this ‘l{mn. far It condigted of nearly 200 linea. A littlo moro theh & year after tius Wesloy made a third, aud UNFORTUNATELY A 8UCOESSPUL, attempt at matrimony, The beginning of this affalr rends like & farco, but it ended In & do- meiti tragedy of thuty years' duration, On the 4th of " Fetruary Le meb the *asingle meti ' of Lis Tondon .oclnt{ and *showed them on how niany acootints L was good for thowo who Liad tetimi¥ed that gift from heaven to remain sivgla for tho kivgdom of heavou's sake, unlees wherd n pariiculsr odse might bs an exooption to the goueral rule.” Ilo uad al- ready determined that bis own casd formed ope of those u(:‘-fvl(nuuh for four days before he Liad gatounded his brobher Cherles by ths au- nouncerhont that Le was about {o marry, B or maiiy years,” ho sald, ** I remalned singlo Leenuse [ botioved I could bo more useful 1n a slug's stats § and 1 pralsa God who ocuabled mo todoso. I now asfully bellove that In my prosent circumatances 1 might be more nserul in o marricd aigto.” The lwmnu an whom ho Lad fixod wasd Mrw, Vazétlle, a widow of 40, who Lad beon & vervaut, and kad matried a morchant, who had left her a widow with four children and A fortuns of £10,000. ‘The foriuus way clearly no part of Wesley's juducement, for Lo iuslsted that it should bo setiled upon her children, 1t sesms that when be announced his purpost to hie Lrother Lie had not conaulted the widow, sud probably bad nio Hamodiate intention of dolug 0, for lto Wwaa LU sot out in four Adfs upuunmng}upmo {o the north, But iu crors- inp Lundon {iridge ho sliuped, zprained hisanklo, and was earrled 10 the houss of 3lru, Vazeille, where, as Lo savs, ho spent several days, * partly m prayer, sug, ana conversaton, pad partly innnting cbiew Qrammar aud Lessous for Clnldren. Tho accldens took piace Feb, 10, and tha March nuinber of thoe (erlznmn'a Mag- ailne contsined thisaunouucement s ** Married, Teb, 18, tha oy, Mr. Juhn Wesley, Mathodist preachor, to & merchant's widow with s fortuno hor husband on his jonrnoyn; but b yoar wasovor d et olore the FILNCE DITTICULTIES ANORE. Perronat, whonse good oplnlan of Mra, Iind wuch to do with Wealey's caolco, wrizes by Chales Wesloy: *“I am fruly concernal it wnttora aco in so molancholy & sltuation, [ think the unhappy lady is most to bo Rl though the gontleman'n adso in montntul enaugl)’ Their sullorings proceed from widaly dilfaran; caunes, 1lin ara tho visihle cbastiscinents of a loviug Fathor ; hars tho immedinto offects of ag anary, bitter antrit,” Tor twonty yema things want on from bad ¢ worso. 'The wife grow intolorably joalons, Bha spied {nto Wosloy's ovory actiony oponad his lotters; mado publio overythung whicn woylq boar au unfavorablo constriiction, aad it iy a(, leged cansod forged oncs to b nsorted in thy nowspapors, Hho declared that tho nobls wiy of Charles Wesley hrd been for soara tha iy, trean of lis brothor. Bha would often 1ige g hundrad milen Lo Some town whers her hustaag'y atrival way expoatod, that sho might soo why ag. companied him. 2lore than onco eho land yjg. lont hands upon him, Oue of his friouds angy cams to thair room and found Weeley on iy flaor, whero aho bad beon DRAGGING RIM ABOCT BY TAE MAmR, In ono haud was a hnadful of his lung locky which sbo had plucked out by the roots. ‘Time and again Aho loft lim ond rolurned. A¢ fougth, in 1771, sho started off to lier daughiey in Nowcastls, pneposing nover to como pack, Wenloy wrota down: Non cam reliqui; nondy. misaiz non rovocabo ('*1 haven't abanloney hier ; haven't sone hor off 3 won't eall her tacl ™ Aftor cighteon months thoy woro rojoluad fury shiort tuno, and then thoy parted forover. Eighy yeara nlter, Wesloy cams back to London frog ono of his long preaching tours, and male hyy entry in his juurnal: * QOct. 12, 1781, T way)n, formed my wiie died on Monday, tho Bl Tayy evcmur nlio wan buricd, though I was not j. formied of {t Lill.a day or wwo altor.” Whilo thore can bo no 1oanon to doubt Iy, Weatoy was frao from all actual Wroug, 1t must bo admitted that his wile was NOT WITHOUT Vazellly APPANENT CAUSE FOR T eapeclally in tho matter of hls“fim’. tionn with Barabh lyan., This womy originally o norvant, had mnarried o meclane Ho rau away, aud gy became angaged to an Iiahan sailory but by prning to uurso an lrish amlor namad Ryan, sfy mnrried him, Ha went on a voyago, swhereupsy rlio maried tho Itallan, Iyan camo back, s} for a whilo ebo lived witn Lim uatil he neat o goa again, 'Lhon thoe Ltallan again tarned yp and wished ber to live mith hiin. Bho rofused n;;lmrnu(ly considerinz hiorsolf tho wilo of Ry, whoso namo elio ever after bore. Lo wrate tg Lot from Amorica, wishing hor to come orsr tg him, Bho dechined, aad, though she had tarey husbanda living, rosolved Lo live sith ucither, bt 10 o ot to morvice. At tho n3e of 30 Wi way cenvorted undsr she preaching of Weelay, any threo years aftor was appoiuted by him Lotes. keoper in tho ratigious cstablishmont at Kjaps wood. Weuloy evideutly botd hor i highestcen, for ho wrate troquently to her, and mado her tuo canfidants of lun doniestio troubles. Some of theso lettors feil into tho bauds of Lis wife au} YILED HER JEALOUSY. Once whon Woslny was ab Kingewood, nitilng st dinver with & company of his proachers, 8y prosiding at tho table, tha augry wifs burstulg tho roowm, aud, designating tho Louso by the oonrsest word in tho laugungo, told the guests that sho had threo husbands living, Not anal. ' togethior edifying scoue at o meoting of miofs. ' tero, Harab Itvan's conduck during the sixteen years which uha lived aftorlior conversiouhas nog boen Impeachod. 8he was noted for ber pioty, and. after ber doath, Weslev publshed snap. count of ber roliglous oxperienco, Biil), it may ho doubted whotlser a woman of threc-and-thir- ty, who might at any momont bavo beon im- pvhmmd or bigamy, was just tlLoonolobs inado matron of a_theologleal achook, AL all ovonta 8o was bardly o safo corrosposdont fora mau who had o Jealuus wits whio was fu tha babis of opeuing lna letters. ‘Wesloy endeavored to DBAW BOME CONBOLATION avon from Lis ill-stariod marriage, Moore, bis eatlicst blographor, writos: * He oftou told m that ho botieved the Lord overruled thls painfal busineen for bis good s aud thas if Mrs, Wesiey had been a bettor wife he might Lave been ua. faltbful in the groat wotk to which God b callod bim, snd might have too much aou{;hl ta ploaxa Lier accoidiug to her own viaws,'” Iiis not casy to say what afilictions msy not becoms nmoans of graco ; but of ali uniikely ones, the most unlikely would soem to be & jeniows, terms gaut wifs, * . We gladly turn from tho conslderation of Wesley's wonkness to tbat of bl streucth. Of this wo must spoak with less dotail. No spica leas than a volume woald Lo nulticient to doft Justice. 'Tho open secret lay in bis indomitabla will, unflivching coursgo, untiriog fodoe. try, * and sbsolute dovolion to bis wotk, Yo save souls WRS not medly the great objoet, it was TUE BOLE ORSECT OF I8 LIFE. For Ialf a century thosole care of all the Methe adist churchos iay on bis shoulders. Never bad a_ great leador o fow able assoviates. Chatles Wesloy, eaving as a iymnist, was quite ss much o burdon as a help. Indoed, for tne laat thirty yoars bf bla life lie can Liardly bo sirled a Methe odist, for ho abandoned ftineraut preschisg, Vbitofiold loft tum at an eatly dato. Fleteoer, whom tie bad desigued to bo hia successor, bat who died bofora him, is the only ono who cn ank with aby ove of & ucoro who durrdicdsl iuuml- and’ Calvlp, Baving Cuke, who, vith conslderablo talent, much learning, and abund- ant zesf, lacked tho nound judgment requiite for n gtont leador, of &ll the Imudrqd-n early stetliodists donmetuorated by Mr. Tyorman, it would b bard to numo anotlier who either (et~ pacity or acquirements sxcoeded medioerity. Nob u faw of them wora most unpromising materialy and the kind of supervision which Wealsy bad o cxoreise over thom 18 OFTEN AXUBING. Ta oun of Lis Trish prunohers bo givos o lmg 1ist of {ustructlons, called foith by wast hebsd himself seon in the dorth of Ircland, Lo arikes: “Bocloanly, Avold all pastiness, ditt, sloveall: ness, Do not stluk above ground; thiste abd fruit of laziness. Uso all ditlgonco to be clesa. Whatever clothos you woar, Jet thom bo whols; 0o reuts, no tatters, uo raga. Mend your clotken, orIshall oover expect ta ses yan wend yuut ilven. Clean youtnelvos of llco ; thoss aroaprod! Dboth of unclcautiness and lazinces, Takoisicd in this. Do not cut ol your baur, but clesalh and keep it clean. Cuve youraclf aud your ilmi ily of the itch. A spoonful of brimytone vl ciro you, To lot this ruuon from ynmuulg proves botly dloth dnd uncicanliuoss, Awsy Wl it ok oua.” All tins, and much moro 0 the #anie general purpodoe, is sornd ‘admouitiony bk oito would linrdly suppuse that thare would bars beon iy necessity to adwinister it to s tasd preacher, ; Wealoy's hollvity was SOMETRING MARVELOUS. ol TWa doubt il a more laborions o over llvn' Year i and year out for halfa centuryho lmhD cd vot less than 5,000 miles a year. Up it ngo of 70 his fouinsys wero moatly mado 08 liorseback s ot thiat timo be mat withi au o7 whio involved a sovera surgieal oporation .n disabled bim from iding, “and “mh;al«:n utchiasod for him by subsoription. Tbeso J Yuurneyu ware usually made I tho winter, o¥ tho toreible foads of ‘thie timo. Nou uuha]‘l‘“"" 1{ bo proaclied four tiutes o day, hot merslt unday, but {broughoat the entire week. B compited that ke proached in all more o 40,000 sermons, When nob travelln3 be T Lueily enmaged jn mecting tho mn:nhmxo fird bands, and in oyersceiug this miuute detat n‘?“ scattored sooioties. Whon one looks st pi8 i ing, ho may well wonder how Wesley foun to writo; wlion ono looka st bis writnge, marvel 14 how ho found time (o o snythisg Wo Liavo cotiited up tha titlos of sloub 250 BEPARATE WONKS by Wesley, Mauy of tlirss woro short :5"": single sermons; uthets may Lo Biyl hl\‘;.u phlets; aud » very laigo numberaio \'nd r and series of volumos, Tha pubjocts ura' e most multifarious charaoter. Hi s‘:urh\n dbish published al tho ngg of U, was s Col o Prayers for Eyery Day in the Weok." To Pl about foity collections bf hymua by BItEC ooy bis brothier Oharleay Lhsre aro short gt ol of the Gieek, Latiu, ITobrew, aud X"');nohfi gusgos, & miniature Enzlish dictioasry, lm 0 od editions of moveral cisssic autho.s, & “lrinitive Phyaio,” ¢ Direotions fof Foo nlnncmtlen ‘u‘lfif f unutum.;'h.n N‘:;‘ et electiiglty, otexs o1 mom,’i" Tnd ko forth, lin 1773 he amfl‘?lnd a colloctod edition of the works e ke 1 then published, whick made thirty-bw0 YO, ‘This, bowuver, duga not inolude bis YAnIouts o) hooks or tho foar yolunses of €ormoos: U, vrere publishicd soparatety, or the (aurl" : of * Boral Poems,” selocied from ".‘f»fmu thors, or the threa quaito volumes of 4 A o lidee the Uld;fe{‘ln‘ltl'fut,'fivmch ala ulnulgll,y‘l" ‘nor 1bo ung of Maithew llenry au T Yehiatian Livearr,” A horicn of abridkment aud trauelstions, whioh extonded to umes, and occajjod nm six years. taud" 1B thezs, b prepared u ' lilatozy O ORI 1y four volunes; an * Ecclesisstical lllulv\]‘-‘“ al thice volumes; and s 't Ct)mpnudlum:hs beged Vhilosaphy,” in five volumed, I 177 b0 e 1a tha publioition of the Arminfan ”"'{‘Wu‘h of £3u0 per anvum.” Wesley way still unable to ot his foot o thie grouod, Lkt on tho uvening ollowlug bils wedding, and on tho nest moruivg, o preachiod knocliug, 3 ¥or & fow mouthy Mrs, Wesley accompaniod hi; b f eiphtv pags obitiued 1o odi for ‘thittoeu Yyears nfllm’: C%lthe duy ol‘ hia cgnt‘l:&a"n‘:'y” oot o pari Of oa by blnj n paricalan erery sliasas