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...most famed religious conversions since that of St. Paul, and probably the best-documented in modern times, was that of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. To a recent Roman Catholic student of Wesley, Rev. Maximin Piette, this conversion was "a gust of feeling so unimportant that Wesley might well have forgotten all about it had he not recorded it at the lime." Nevertheless, Wesley did record it, in words which Methodists have treasured to this...
Before his heart-warming at 34, John Wesley had for twelve years been an Anglican divine, conscious of failure in his missionary trip to Georgia in the Colonies. At Oxford, where Wesley spent much of his time, Methodism was a derisive name applied to members of a "Holy Club" which Hymn Writer Charles Wesley founded and in which his brother became a leader. John Wesley never left the Church of England. In essence his doctrines were: justification by faith alone; freedom of the human personality; purity of heart; the reception of the Holy Spirit by man. Methodism today strives...
...Named not for Cartoonist Walt but for Tulsa's Congressman Wesley Ernest Disney...
Editorial. Most distinguished editorial writing was that of William Wesley Waymack, associate editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune...
...debt-ridden churches in his locality, a devout Methodist last week put forward a bit of oldtime religion. John O. Mullins, of Wesley, Iowa offered 100 bushels of seed corn free to farmers who would undertake to plant it on "God's acres," give the crop to God's uses. Worth $700, the seed corn would be distributed in 7-pound packages, each of which would plant one acre, produce 50 bushels-at 75? per bushel, a total of some...