Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-16

= ments of the English Church, he
seems never to have held a rector
ship. From the head ushership OF
Westminster school he became head
master Of the free school at liver
ton, in DevOnshire. lie had little
| sympathy with the religious move
ment, inauguratcd by his brothers
John and Charles, and would rath-
er baye his brothers picking straws
within the walls Of the uniyersi'v
than preaching in thoarea Of Moor
fields
or the attractive, intelligent sis
ters Emilia is the eldest. She writes
to her brothers at Oxford Of the
strange, ghostly noises and appear
ances which for long time unac.
couutably disturbed IL quiet Of
the rectory, and with true gIrlish-
ness laments that although the
crops are good both at Ep )rth
and WroOte,' a small living held by
Mr.. Wesley, INSTEAD Of earning
anything to clothe my sister and
myself, we are just where we We're.
Emilia, afterwards Mrs. Harper, in
her widOwhOOd vas maintained en-
tirely byhcr brothers. There is the
pretty ''ukcy, gay dhd romantic,
who, like two others OF her sisters,
married most unhappily. Mary
'whose exquisitely beautiful face
was but the index to a mind and
disposition almost angelic She
went from the rectOry to curate's
lowly home at WrOOte, where. after
a few happy months, she di. . Tie
gay and Sprightly lletty gaze from
her infancy proof of strong mental
powers, and at the ago OF eightyears
chad made such proficiency in the
learned languages She could read
in the Greek Testament By the
most unaccoIntable faulty on the
part Of her father this intelligent,
witty maiden was induced, almost
compelled, to wed man beneath
her in every particular, and who by !
his dissoluteness and unkindncss F.
finally broke his wiic's heart. She .
solaced her many lonely and unhap- (
py hours with her pen, and wrote /
many hymns and poems. 1T is /
but justice to her memory sayshcr /
brother, to observe that she was at /
rest before she went hence, being /
for some years a witness Of that /
rest which remains even here for the
people of Cod
Of Anne Wcslcy little is record
cd, save that she became the wife
Of Mr.. John Lambert, a land sur
veyor Of Epworth, a gentleman Of
sense and education. Martha, or
Patty as she was known in the
home circle, was, next TO the viva
cious lIetty, the most intcrcstirr /
daughtcrof the Wesley family. Size
was early remarkable for a deep
thoughtfulncsa and an eyenne-s of
temper which nothing could dis
compose. 1t wa, her delight to lin
ger about her mother, and hang /
upon her words, when the other
children were engaged play
She was deeply attached q her
brother John, whom u person shc
much rcscmblcd.
Her welded life, like tl1t Of her
two cider sisters, was most miscr-
able. The wife Of shameless
proAigatc, who finally deserted her,
bercaved Of her ten children, the
grave and elegant woman incrcas.
ed in graccofcharacter and dignity
of person as years and Affections
multiplied. DR.. Samuel johnson
esteemed her highly and greatly
valued her conversation. She died |
few months afer her beloved bro
thcr John, in the cighty-dfth year
of her age, and was inferred in tho
same vault with hin.
'Kezzy,' the youngest daughter
and child, was the invalid Of the |
Epworth home. lIor ill-health
seems to have Kindred her from the |
high attainmonts of the elder bro
Tiers and sisters. But her letters !
show thoughtful mind OF no mean |
order. In 1929 sho is teaching in /
boarding.school at Lincoln. Bnt |
the sore need felt at the rectOry |
home presses on the girl Of nine
tceu. and she cOnfesseS to her bro |
ther John the fear she cannot re-
train her position because Of the |
want of necessary clothing, "a
want more felt here than at home
Yet she longs to stay 'only for
education.'
In "A few words she gives picture |
of the hard life at Epworih, felt |
perhaps more severely by this |
gentle soul in delicate frame than
by her harder companions. my !
mothers poor health, which was
often occasioned by want Of clothes
or convenient meat, and my own
constant ill.he alth these three
years past, weighed much more
with me than anything else.' If
not as learned as the rest, she had
her share in the quaint wit dis
tinguishing her family. She tells
her brother John, Il think it no
greater matter whether say any
thing relating to the people Of Ep.
worth or no; for you may be sure
| that bo that iucrpagpth knoWlodOe