The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-11-20
JOHN Wesley:

The lecture at the NJ. f. church on
Monday night was one OF the most in
teresting and instructive productions
that tho Klnsley people have had the
pleasure Of enjo, ing fol long while.
1t is great pity that our people do
not appreciate better, entertainments
of this character. There was only a
small audience present to hear the lec-
ture, when the house ought to have
been filed to overlooking.
Rev. VanGundy Of Larned. the
lecturer, is q good speaker and eviden-
COS the fact that he ls q deep thinker
as we'll. .-.-
The subject of the lecture was
John Wesley who the speaker showed
to be one of the greatest men of his
century. He lived through the
greater portion of the 18th century.
WAS born in 1903 and died in i791.
The lecturer showed that Wesley
was man raised up by providence for
a special work First he quoted the
saying of some one, "that when God
would make u great man he first made
great woman" then proceeded to
speak in highest terms Of susanah
Wesle, he mother of John Wesley
tho founder of Methodism, declar-
ing her to ba woman of sterling
character and great piety, he said she
was not giddy. gawking. gum chew
ing girl. but of modest and sober stea-
dy thoughtful habits, just such girl
as would make woman fitted to be
the mother Of a great man. He fur
ther said, which is a truth that wish
all the girls of this present day might
hear and profit by, that no giddy gaw-
key gum chewing girl had ever become
the mother of great man, and never
would. The Rev. Brother spoke Of
John Wesley as coming into promineIl-
ce at critical time i'm the worlds his
tory, That lie should stand as the
champion of the christian faith when
it Was assailed by such vandals Of evil
and infidelfty as VOltair and Tom
Paine, and illustrated his point by re-
ferring to the history of the world
both ancient and lnOds r J., sacred and
prOfane. When God ntd heed of Il
Noses to witl,st;,nd ~ PharaOl, lie had
one in training from the events of All
ark of bulrus.,es to a burning bush Oh
the mountain uf Horeb. When there
was an A. alb and Jezabel to con-
front, there was an Elijah found to do
the work effectualiy. And when there
was King George to defy aud great
country to be tho land Ut this tree and
the homo of the brave, to wrest from
his power, theLord had George
Washington TO lead tho Continental
or nies to victory aud the Colonies to
independence, and when it WAS neces-
. Try to maintain this Union and lnde-
pendence against the leaders OF seces-
sion and human slavery, God had an
Abraham Lincoln to bring forward a.
just the man for the place.
So when ln6delity and dead formal
ism breutened tc destroy vital godli-
ness and boosted that it would sweep
christii nifty from the earth, God had
u John Wesley that he brought for
ward. and right royalty and nobly did
he perform his mission.
The amount Of labor in preaching
and travelling, and writing books WAS
enormous, besides works OH theology
" esley wrote treatises OF medicine,
philosophy, and almost every subject
that concerned the elevation OF the
IA md and heart of man. In fact this
wonderful man has been tho marvel of
the ages in which, and since he lived,
for mastery leadership and soundness
Of judgme ent in all matters I'm which
Ire interested himself. being the foun-
der of the greatest religious bodies OF
the Protestant age, leaving his i'm
press of a noble character. and great
ness which touches with profit every
land and every people of the world,
his is = name that shall live a. long as
tsre world shall stand. and q character
that shall shine in the galaxy OF saints
throughout eternity.
One who heard the lecture.