The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-18
LIKE A STAR IN ENGLAND'S
WILD BLACK NIGHT OF SIN
John Wesley Came, a Voice in the Wilderness Cry
ing, Prepare We the Way of
the Lord.

eighteenth century can nave no proper
idea of the condition Of the people, and
the woeful character Of society IN the days
of the Georges. l might fill columns III
accommodating evidence on tins line. De
~pravity. d~ebauchery, drunkenness, lnfdeii-
ty. corruption, roWdyism and scoundreIsm
ran riot without fear OF human law or
Gods power to punish. You can get all
needed information from Lecky's ei8nL
large volumes, Trevclyan's Early Lie OF
Charles James Fox, Walpole's letters 9nd
Thackeray's Lectures On the Four Georges
Prostitution, un~cleanness, thieVing, muir
ders abounded, and particularly IN London
and much of it among the nobility ana
the rich. When Fox first became of age
the head of the law in England, and the
head OF the Church in Ireland. were hard
drinkers and thoroughly deoauched. Sir
Philip Francis. the author Of the greatest
volume of political papers in the world,
under the name Of 'Junlus,' tells of two
of his friends easily consuming a gallon
and a half Of champagne and burgundy IN
one debauch. The records are full q
drunkenness among officials, and the no
bility. Trcvelyan, the author of that
charming masterpiece of biography, Life
Oh IOlQ MdtduIiy, III HIS Etly lH~iI h'ti'1
work on Fox, says: "A statesman Of the
Georgian era was sailing on a sea Of
claret from one comfortable official haven
to another at a period Of life when a 20
IiticaI apprentice in the reign Of Victoria
is not yet out Of his indcntures. No one
can study the public OF personal history
of the eighteenth century without beng
impressed by the truly immense space
which drinking occupied in the mental no.
rizon of the young. and the consequences
of drinking in that of the old.' 1t was IN
this age of extreme vice and debauche1y
that the great John Wesley began and
carried on his extraordinary work to such
noble and imperishahle results. Lecky
says in his sixth volume that but for the
preaching of Wesley and his CONDUCTORS,
the French Revolution would have crossed
the narrow British Channel-some twenty
six miles. perhapS-and invaded England
with results like those in France, He says
that when agents and emissaries from
Franco went among her laboring classes
to disseminate their doctrines and plead
ings that they were told that they knew
of a better thing-religion and Heaven
that they had learned from Wesley. Vol
taire misread England. He thought the
people at large were sceptics and enemies
of God and His laws. Macauiay has
pointed out his error saying that he had
lived with men of wit and fashion during
his visit to England, and knew nothing of
the feeling OF the grave part of mankind
or of the middle classes Voltaire a
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