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Engraving by S. Bellin after painting by Marshall Claxton, printed in London by Thomas Agnew & Sons,
1861.
In November, 1729, four young gentlemen of Oxford, -- Mr. John Wesley, Fellow of Lincoln College; Mr.
Charles Wesley, Student of Christ Church; Mr. Morgan, Commoner of Christ Church; and Mr. Kirkham, of Merton College, -- began
to spend some evenings in a week together, in reading, chiefly, the Greek Testament. The next year two or three of Mr. John
Wesley's pupils desired the liberty of meeting with them; and afterwards one of Mr. Charles Wesley's pupils. It was in 1732,
that Mr. Ingham, of Queen's College, and Mr. Broughton, of Exeter, were added to their number. To these, in April, was joined
Mr. Clayton, of Brazen-nose, with two or three of his pupils. About the same time Mr. James Hervey was permitted to meet with
them; and in 1735, Mr. Whitfield.
The Future of Methodism
(Printed cutting in notebook of Joseph Entwisle; Methodist Archives) Original anecdote of the late Rev. John Wesley communicated to the Preachers assembled
in Conference at Liverpool, August 1820, by Mr. Robert Miller.
"The first time I had the pleasure of being in company with the Rev. John Wesley
was in the year 1783. I asked him what must be done to keep Methodism alive when he was dead: to which he immediately answered,
'The Methodists must take heed to their doctrine, their experience, their practice, and their discipline. If they
attend to their doctrines only, they will make the people antinomians; if to the experimental part of religion only, they
will make them enthusiasts; if to the practical part only, they will make them Pharisees; and if they do not attend to their
discipline, they will be like persons who bestow much pains in cultivating their garden, and put no fence round it, to save
it from the wild boar of the forest. "
Rupert Davies, A. Raymond George, Gordon Rupp, eds. A History of The Methodist Church in Great Britain, vol.
4 (London: Epworth Press, 1998)p.194.
Methodism
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Wesleyan and Methodist
Studies
Wesley Center Online
The Wesleys and Their Times
A Short History of Methodism
The Story of United Methodism in America
Methodist Review
11/09 "John Wesley and The Twenty-first Century: A RealisticFuture"(pp. 93-107),Edward P. Wimberly
11/09 "And to Crown All": Wesley on Union with God in the New Creation" (pp. 109-25), Kenneth M Loyer
General Commission on Archives and History
History of the Methodist Episcopal Church
The American Methodism Project
Epworth Old Rectory
The World Methodist Council
Indisposable Methodist Information
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| First Great Awakening |
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Church of the United Brethren in Christ
Evangelical United Brethren Church
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| First Methodist Espiscopal Bishop |
| Francis Asbury's Ordination |
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| Bishop Francis Asbury's Hebrew Bible |
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Published by Jacob Wetstein in Amsterdam, 1753, bequeathed to his successor, Bishop William McKendree.
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| William Taylor |
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| Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church |
List of bishops of the United Methodist Church
| Portraits of Methodist Heroines |
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Published for the Methodist centenary celebration in 1866.
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Quadrennial program of The Methodist Church, 1944-1948
Wesleyan Quadrilateral
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Published by the PAN Methodist Bicentennial Committee, 1983.
| Methodist Book Concern |
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To supply their members, preachers, and Sunday schools with Christian literature, the churches
established publishing operations. The Methodist Book Concern, organized in 1789, was the first church publishing house in
America. The Evangelical Association and United Brethren also authorized the formation of publishing agencies in the early
nineteenth century. From the presses of their printing plants came a succession of hymnals, Disciplines, newspapers, magazines,
Sunday school materials, and other literature to nurture their memberships. Profits were usually designated for the support
and welfare of retired and indigent preachers and their families.
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John Wesley the Methodist: a plain account of his life and work
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| The Seal of John Wesley |
| The Brand from the Burning. |
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| Handmade oil painting reproduction of The Rescue of John Wesley from the Epworth Rectory Fire, 1840, |
John Wesley lived from
1703 to 1792. He grew up in a village in North Lincolnshire called Epworth.John Wesley’s father was the Anglican
Priest..When John Wesley was 5 years old, the rectory caught fire – or possibly, as his father was a very unpopular
vicar – it was set on fire. Everyone escaped – until that is the horrified parents, counting up their
many children, discovered they were one short – little John was still in the building. Rushing back,
they found him standing in an upstairs window – some bystanders pulled him to safety. So it was that in future
years John Wesley frequently referred to himself as “a brand from the burning” – someone plucked by God
from the flames. His mother firmly believed that little John had been spared especially that he might be used by God. All
the Rectory books were destroyed in the fire, but according to tradition on the next morning, one scrap of charred paper
was found swirling around the stack yard – it was a fragment of the Rectory bible, containing the words “Take
up thy cross and follow me”... So the Wesleys came to believe that God had saved John, that he might take up his cross
and do the Lord’s work...
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