Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1903-08-01
ON JOHN WESLEY,
OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON
Stands Out Suprsme Among The
Preachers OF the AGes-A Great
lnfiueuce

the LAFAYETTE Avenue Presbyterian and Il
Clinton Avenue Congregational churches /
began Sunday morning IN the edihce OF the !
first named The Rev. DIR. Nj. W. Stryker, /
President of Hamilton College. Clinton. y.
Y smoke ON John Wesley but used no !
text As will bc seen he paid an eloquent /
tribute TO the influence OF ms preaching !
Upon June Il. l7Os. that Is. 200 years
ago. was born az EpwOrth. Lincolnshire
100 miles from London. and at about the
east centre of England man whose m
huencc stands out supreme above All the
men of his age. Eighty eight years oid, on
the 2d OF March. 1871. he died Thus ms
life complSsed nearly the whole 81 the
eighteenth century. and under God II was
the most fertiiiZing and rcdecming agency
toward the moral forces and accomplish
ments of the nineteenth. And still the
| world l. debtor. and viii ever be, to the
| convictions and consecratlons. the energies
/ and the efficiency OF that one mani ohm
/ " esley. a mighty impulse and potent
/ organization attestcd and attcsts ms SIM
/ gular and recrcative purpose and achieve
/ mcnt. We may well reckon with such ?
/ personahtv in considering the movement OF
/ the modern word. Even the harcst outline
/ records q wonder and furnishes corrective
| 20 a hundred superficial PHILOSOPHERS aud
thousand shallow negiects. While IVES
| lcvans aud Methodists m all lands are recit-
| ing that story let MS all. with them. who
| share q like precious faith recall and re-
I 1oice ponder and hope. For the clements
| ot IL are as deep as the FIRST principles of
/ the Christian religion. and the fame and
/ forces Of 10 are the common possession OF
an who HAL the kingdom Of the Son OF
God.
This man was born into home when
life IN an age that hated anything more
than formal religion was exceptional. The
mother that nu-tured hum was that susan
nah Wesley of whom Adam Clark said that
he never saw her equal. HIS ancestry was
of that Puritan stock and stun whose tber
, oi conscience had affirmed the real Eng
=. land. its Nigors and rigors had been super
ceied bv the rccruiesccnce of the hvid
/ Stuarts. but. though ignored. u had not de
[ parted. and IN hmm and 10y HIM IL spoke
again and hore IT'S second harvest
. Wesley began ms work IN the Estah
lishcd and Episcopal Church and though
l. hy 10 he was soon dcspiscd and rejected hs
b loved 70 always and cherished ITS bette
. part. For two years hc wrought IN Gcor
c,a. hut the Grand Jury of that colony IN
70 dicted him. There be uttered that notable
@ word II hope to learn tine sense of the Cos
DC. hv preaching it, Tie came into clos,
I touch with Moravans here and in Eu
' rope Had that lttie body done nolhiu'
l. else than directly 60 deepen and hv H. rc
b. action tn enlarge. John Wesley. Do had don't
i mighty work. bat their narr0wucs~ h
Ne escaped. while retaining their intensity
r. Over the deep and critical experience %
a- his inner heart. with its unusual combina
.~ tom Of ~eu~ifINcucs~ and decision. Wc Wi
not pause. They were basal. ln them h
% found thc Light Doe followed 90 che end
30 See him no Oxford. Tie was "a student
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