New-York tribune., 1902-07-14
breaches ON JOHN WESLEY.
THE REV MIR. CASwELI. DRAWS PICTURE OF
LIFE AND TIMES OF FOUNDER OF
METHODIsM

The Rev. Edwin Whittier Casweli. pastor of the
Beekman Hill Methodist Episcopal Church,
preached last evening at the Cornell Memorial
Church on 1.-The Life and Times of John Wesley"
He said In part
wrntsJ The leading historians hays conceded that John
reformer the world has produced Sympathetlcal-
Like his Master his ministry was to the poor the
0utcaSit. the the downtrodden He gave himself for
lived to bind up the broken hearted. He went to
pr bresd with IL m the bible IN g. one hand ar and basket
like water TO relieve the widow, the fatherless and
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such loving. praetieal sympathy for his fellows
any member Of the Christian Church IN the te tWen-
ioftness Of character let him go and die and live
again gain for humanity: ,,--,-
OF og wS his
Adsm ore nSn scory EeaRa han @s &
9uent: Charles Wesley more poetical, but John
comprehensive statesmansnlp. manifested in the
organization of Methodism which Included the
& the Of cheap and
thrilling hymns. the sending out of missionaries,
nf b,ch OF schools conferences and
w9nderful Hsd m powers 81 Of organization.
Il not ct e had TSa Sesn pss
He He was one of the world great philanthropists.
lifeline the S3aFs panes f es
sye ms IS t O. pnd
benevoence, Wesley. like Moses and Paul re-
ceiyed the highest education of his time He was
more polished and scholarly than Luther; more
learned than Calvin OF Savonarola. Nearly two
hundred volumes came forth from his pen. His
sermons to-day are classic. The eight volumes of
his Journal are more read and more celebrated than
any similar work ever published. Methodisnl was
porn d university and is celebrated to-day for
her colleges and higher institutions of learning
marvellous mind. 1t is said that he began at four
preaching before breakfast and after reading
studying and writing while he rode on horseback:
making appointments as a railroad makes a sched.
ule OF time and stations, and filling them to the
minute Travelling enough for the work of one
man; writing enough for another; preaching
enough for a third; raising money enough for
fourth; the anxiety OF superntending ali the So
cietfes enough 10 wear out fifth correspondence
large enough for a sixth: and all this every day
turning 1t off without nerve unstrung, to lie
down at night and sleep like babe
PRESIDENT Roosevelt and w. j. Bryan, considering
the multitude and ability of their addresses are
no doubt the greatest political speakers America
has produced. They We're utterly exhausted after
Two months or such campaigning, while John Wes-
ley preached three times each day for nearly sixty
years, Wesley had no steam cars. automobiles
BICYCLES trolley cars not even stage coach for he
year on horseback. His study In his saddle
Patience under persecution another striking
characteristics. Church ana state caricatured him
encouraged mobs who beset him. Bshops and
priests warned the public against him as a charIa-
tan and infamous cheat His little band OF follow
ers were dubbed "Methodists Bible bigots Bible
moths. the Holy Club Wesley bore all patiently
con0uerinS mohs with love. overcoming ali opDosi.