The Story of John Wesley, Told to Boys and Girls

MOST people think it is time to stop working long before they are eighty, but John Wesley at eighty-seven still went about his "Father's business." His constant prayer was, "Lor...

A corner in America.--Wanted a missionary.--Mrs. Wesley gives up her sons to God's work.--At the dock-side.--The good ship "Simmonds."--Life on board.--A terrible storm.--The Ge...

Jack at Westminster.--At Oxford.--Life at College.--Jack a deserter.--His good angel.--"He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing."--A bitter disappointment.--A letter from "Mo...

A fight with the sea.--Poor Peter!--A sail in a fisherman's boat.--The song that the waves accompanied.--A climb on Land's End.--Manchester disgraces itself.--Hull still worse.-...

George Whitefield, the "boy parson."--The Wesleys back in England.--Long walks.--Preaching by the way-side.--A talk in a stable.--Sermon in Manchester.--Mr. Charles in London.--...

Jack a minister.--A letter from father.--Jack's first sermon.--"Mr. John."--Back at college.--Temptations and persecutions.--"For Jesus' sake."--Mr. John's long hair.--Clever, b...

Brave as a lion.--A protecting angel.--God's magic.--Foes become friends.--An unpleasant walk in rain and darkness.--What the mayor said.--A free fight.--"Knock the parson down!...

Kingswood.--Grimy colliers.--The shocking thing is done.--A beautiful church.--From 200 to 20,000.--John Wesley shocked.--Drawing lots.--To be or not to be.--To be.--Mr. Wesley...

Proud children.--Edie.--Boys in Georgia.--John and Charles Wesley in the wrong.--Signal failure.--Disappointment.--Return to England.--Mr. Wesley finds out something on the voya...

I KNOW you will have thought it very unkind of the clergymen not allowing such a good man as Mr. Wesley to preach in their churches; and so it was, very unkind, and very wrong....

LONG, long ago, more than one hundred and fifty years, lived the hero of this book. Because his name was John, everybody called him Jack or Jacky; and by everybody I mean his de...

The Magic Mirror again.--Sycamore Farm.--Annie's good news.--A chorister up in a tree.--A long, long journey.--Sixty miles a day on horseback.--A Chapel out of doors.--A hard be...

Billy and Polly.--A little sunbeam visits Sandgate.--What happened at seven o'clock in the morning.--And at five o'clock in the evening.--"The Old, Old Story."--Newcastle wants...

Fetter Lane.--Popular preachers.--Old friends meet again.--Love-feasts.--1739--Small beginning of a great gathering.--A crowded church.--A lightning thought.--But a shocking thi...

Jacky learns his A B C.--A wise mother.--Christ's little soldier.--A chatterbox.--The big brother and the little one.--Jacky poorly.--The bravest of the brave.--A proud father.

IN the year 1770 the Methodists had grown so numerous that they counted forty-nine different circuits or societies in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. They had one hundred...

Going to sleep.--How John Wesley missed his brother.--A good man's tears.--Getting old.--Mr. Wesley's text for the children.--Last words in Manchester.--In Colchester.--A dinner...

Back in London.--Mr. John and Mr. Charles go visiting.--Too much for one.--Talking matters over.--The first Methodist Conference.--No time to be in a hurry.--What early rising c...

In the Savannah river.--Landed.--A prayer meeting on the top of a hill.--German Christians.--The Indians.--Tomo Chachi and his squaw.--Their welcome to Mr. Wesley.--A jar of mil...

A visit to Ireland.--The sack that did not contain potatoes.--The bogie man.--What the sack did contain.--The prayer-meeting in the barn.--Mr. Charles Wesley gets married.--And...

Another peep into the Magic Mirror.--A pretty picture.--At Epworth.--Mr. Wesley is very unkindly treated.--All for the best.--The curate is "done."--A happy ending to a bad begi...

Methodist rules.--Pulpits closed against Mr. Wesley.--A visit to Germany.--A walk in Holland.--Christian David, the German carpenter.--The Fellow of Lincoln College takes lesson...

John Wesley's moral courage.--What some carriage people thought of him.--And why.--The fashionable Beau in the big, white hat.--Interrupts Mr. Wesley.--Gets as good as he gives....

No one like mother.--Sad days at the Foundry.--Mrs. Wesley goes Home through the Beautiful Gate.--A sorrowing son.--Preaching at the open grave.--At work again.--Satan in opposi...

Mr. Wesley's story of the Wednesbury riot.--How he felt.--The right pocket.--Beautiful hair.--The prize-fighter a good protector.--A brick, a stone, and two hard blows.--Daniel...

A magic mirror.--And the picture it shows us.--Billy and Polly again.--Hurrah for Newcastle!--John and Charles Wesley put their heads together.--The result.--Strict Rules.--Circ...

Don't believe all you hear.--Mrs. Wesley finds her "dear Jack" true to his colours.--She joins the Methodists.--And thus dreadfully shocks her eldest son.--Death of Mr. Samuel W...

Books.--Two books that left impressions on Jack.--Must a Christian boy be miserable?--Jack says "No."--So says Jack's mother.--Father gives his opinion.--"The Enchanted Rocks;"...

ONE more story of how the angel that shut the lions' mouths for Daniel took care of God's dear servant, John Wesley. He was staying at Newcastle with a Methodist named Mr. Smith...

Charlie goes to Oxford.--Won't have his brother interfere with him.--A change in Charlie.--Somebody's prayers.--Charlie's chums, and how he treated them.--Dividing time.--Nickna...

I THINK we must have some more peeps into that Magic Mirror? Will my little Sheffield readers take a good look? What do we see? A street in a big town, and oh! such crowds and c...

BY and by Jack grew to be a big boy of eleven, and all this time he had only been at the home-school. His parents thought he was now quite old enough to go to a proper boys' sch...

The lion-hearted Wesleys.--And their brave, long-suffering followers.--What Munchin thought of John Wesley.--Hymn 276 and how it came to be written.--The mischievous schoolboy b...

Beverley friends.--Copy of a letter John Wesley wrote to them.--Mr. Wesley's last visit to Beverley.--What took place in the red-roofed inn.--A race.--A lost ten minutes.

A long walk.--More persecutions.--Mr. John's illness.--Not afraid to die.--Mrs. Wesley scolds.--Home again.--A proud father.--Mr. Wesley's opinion about fasting.--At Wroote once...

WHEN Mr. John came back to Oxford, of course he joined the Christian band, and very soon they made him their leader. He was cleverer and had more experience than the others, and...

YOU remember the school at Kingswood, that the colliers collected the money for and started? Although it is one hundred and fifty years ago since it was opened, there has been a...

An explosion.--A new business at the old Foundry.--Mr. Wesley and his mother at home.--Grand helpers.--Poor little Tom.--The worst man in Bristol.--And one of the best.

HERE is a story of how Mr. Wesley settled a dispute between two quarrelsome school-boys. When he was an old man, seventy-three, he was staying with one of his local preachers, a...