Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Wesley started it. Back in the 18th Century, when British preachers stayed put and theological tomes were bulky, expensive and dull, he revolutionized religion by sending his ministers on circuit and reaching the masses with a flood of books that were small, cheap, popularly written. He supported himself through publishing, cleared $150,000 to spread his cause. Not all the 400 books he wrote or published were religious-one was Primitive Physick, a book of home remedies (example: "The Head Ake: Apply to each Temple the thin yellow Rind of a lemon, newly pared off") that went through more...
...Wesley also made the printing press an effective weapon in his holy wars. Calvinists, enraged at his teaching Free Grace instead of Predestination, answered him thus in The Gospel Magazine...
Augustus Toplady, author of Rock of Ages, aimed a sizzling pamphlet at Wesley entitled An Old Fox Tarred and Feathered, which a contemporary remarked should have been called "Go to Hell, by the author of Come to Jesus...
...Wesley bade his U.S. followers use the printing press too. Here it worked still better. Backbone of its success: circuit riders who stuffed their saddlebags with Methodist literature, supplemented their slim stipends by doubling as book peddlers. Methodism's strength in the Middle West dates directly to libraryless days when preachers' saddlebags were a valued source of reading matter. Every minister was also a subscription agent, and by 1830 the Methodist Christian Advocate had the largest circulation of any U.S. periodical -30,000 (its 1941 circulation: 275,000). It grew so rapidly that the post office...
...Three-fourths of all Negro doctors who have qualified as specialists in the U.S. in the last ten years, and many heads of Negro hospitals, are Provident-trained. Among its noted alumni: Dr. John Wesley Lawlah, dean of Howard University College of Medicine; Dermatologist Theodore Kenneth Lawless and Surgeon Ulysses Grant Dailey, now at Provident...