The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-01

ley.
LONDON, Nov. 30.-Diagonally opposite
the famous Bunhills cemetery, famous
as being the last resting place of John
Bunyon, Daniel Defoe and George Fox
stands at the corner of Castle street
and the City road a plain brick building,
tenanted by the officers of the Wesleyan
conference. Within it's walls are stored
the archives pertaining to Methodism,
from the date of May a. 1888, when
Methodism, as history knows it, was
born.
The vaults of the building are stored
with a mass of documents, letters and
unpublished sermons which, for the past
century and half, have slowly but sure
~ been accumlating.
a Great Discovery.
1t has remained for the Rev. Charles
II. Kelley, the secretary of the Wesleyan
conference, to have made within the past
few weeks, most interesting literary
discovery, and one which from the nature
OF the matter unearthed is also OF especial
interest to Americans.
Three weeks ago Mr. Kelley had occas-
ion 10 visit the vaults in order TO oversee
some slight repairs which were in pro-
gress. This involved the shifting OF a
humber OF old volumes and the emptylng
of a cupboard, long dlSuSed 10 his sur
prise one of these books, upon being
opened, was found to ceuJain numerous
manuscripts of poo us and sermons,
written IN clear and legible hand Some
thing IN the handwriting struck HIM as
being in some manner familiar. Investi-
cation followed, and thirteen more vol
umes were discovered. THESE, on being
opened, were found to contain manuscript
ORIG of aY.tp has
ALL In the above mentioned CUPBOARD,
a large bundle, wrapped in paper and
discolored by age and dampneSs, was
found.
The Unholy War.
This also contained manuscript poems
of Charles Wesley rud what was more
important the subjects of many of the
latter We're the authors diatribe against
the American colon1stS for the unnoly
war for independence which they were
then Waging.
1t is, OF course, well known that
Charles Wesley was Tory of the most
like his brother John, who had written
open letters to Lord North protesting
against the carrying on of a war; be-
tween a brave people. Charles could see
their rebellion but the awful wrath of
God.
1t is surmised that this bundle of
poems is the one which Charles Wesley
the latter was preparing his Life of
Wesley" Most of these poems have never
been published, although the number OF
books of poems published by the broth
ers separately or in conjunction, IS
SIXtythree
American Independence.
Prominent among these unpublished
poems is one written in 1880, and entitled
American independence"
AS one reads it, it is difficult to mag
composed by the same man who also
penned the immortal and exquisite lyric.
Jesus, Lover CT My Soul
The poem, which is of great length.
"Where is Old Englands glory fed
Which shone so bright in ages past?
Virtue with our Iorcfatbers died:
And public faith has breathed its last;
And men who falsified their trust
Have laid our houses in the dust.
Our rulers have to rebels sued
And given us up into their hands
Rapacious. protiigate and lewd,
Obedi ent to our foes commands.
They serve our cause with frantic zeal,
Factors of France and tools of He'll
Then comes another written in 1888,
having for it's title: 1.-THE Testimony
of the American Loyalists." 1t COM
menceS:
Outcasts of men by all forsook.
To whom shall we for succor look,
To who mour grief declare?
VIII high or low incline their, ear
Or with humane compassion hear
The cry of our despair?
Carleton the Patriot.
Still another seems to have been in
spired by the election of Lord Garlic
ton, THAT the Conquest of America
by Fire and Sword is Not to Be Ac>
complished:'
True is the patriotic word
We never can by fire and sword
The fierce Americans subdue
If we our generals steps pursue.
Against his friends his sword is turned
He spois and plumbers them and burns;
Such leaders never can aspire
Rebels to quell with sword and fire;
But without fire another can accomplish
Who truth and righteousness approves,
And more than gold this country loves
a man for this great end designed,
We now at last expect to find
By Providential love bestowed,
Whose object is Britains good
Britain's peace his only aim,
And Carleton is the patriots name.
Some Sermons.
One of the four volumes is especially
interesting by reason of two manuscript
sermons which it contains. One is
preached before the students of Oxford
university and the other was written
ter is inscribed:
written on board we London galley,
Captain Jud1veW, between CharleStoWn
and Boston, September, 1886"
Charles Wesley wrote many of his SER
mons in short hand. using for this
purpose the old system invented by DIR.
John Byron, of Manchester, in 1881
Among the other relics of the brothers
Wesley, preserved at the rooms of the
Wesleyan conference is John Wesley's
notebook, when a student at Lincoln COL
lege, Oxford. which contains the notes
he used in preparing his exhortation to
the Holy club of which he was one of the
founders while in college.
Another is a copy of Walters Weekly
Penny Journal of date October 10, 1875.
1t bears upon its ancient and yellow
page the following paragraphs:
James Oglethorpe, esq.,, member of
parliament for Haslemere in the county
of Surrey, embarks on board the Sim
mons, Captain Cornish, for Georgia, this
day"
TUESDAY morning James Oglethorpe,
esq, set out by land for Gravesend, and
the Rev. Mr.. John Wesley, student of