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Article: Charles Wesley's voice still sings
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- Redlands Daily Facts
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- August 4, 2009
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This week the professor continues his summer series, this year on
famous clergymen. In the past two weeks we have reflected on St.
Jean Vianney and Charles Spurgeon. This week: the wonderful Wesley
brothers.
The rightly famous Anglican priest and founder of the Methodist
movement which grew into its own church was the Rev. John Wesley, of
whom many biographies have been written.
John Wesley began his life as the son of a clergyman and poet,
went up to Oxford, had a discouraging period as a missionary in the
colony of Georgia, and returned to England where he had a conversion
experience in 1738. Although ordained as an Anglican priest, he
became devoted to the preaching of the gospel both ...