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Title Page |
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Editor's Note |
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Introduction |
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An Appreciation of John Wesley's Journal |
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Biographical Sketch |
Chapter 1 |
Wesley as a Missionary to Georgia Wesley Begins
his Work - Origin of the Holy Club - Wesley Sails for America - Life on Board - Memorable Atlantic Storms - Wesley Arrives in Georgia - Begins His Ministry at Savannah - 'I Waked Under Water' - Talks to the Indians - Fearless of Rains and Dews - Desires to Go Among the Indians |
Chapter 2 |
Troubles in Georgia; Return to
England; Peter Bohler; 'I Felt my Heart Strangely Warmed' Begins to Learn Spanish - Warrant for Wesley's Arrest - The Jury's Charge against Wesley - Why Wesley left Georgia - Lost in the Woods - Farewell to America - The Voyage to England - Lands at Deal - In London Again - Wesley Meets Peter Bohler - Wesley's Four Resolutions - Incidents on the Manchester Road - Companions on Horseback - Preaches in Oxford Castle - Talks with Bohler - 'I Felt My Heart Strangely Warmed' - Wesley Preaches in Newgate Gaol |
Chapter 3 |
Field-Preaching; 'All the World my
Parish'; Whitefield; Wales; Experience with Demons Wesley Begins Field-preaching - The First Methodist Building - Wesley's Living Arguments - Beau Nash Argues with Wesley - 'All the World My Parish' - Susanna Wesley and her Son - Talks with Whitefield - Press-gang Disturbs the Sermon - The New Name of Methodism - An Accident and a Long Sermon - Wesley in Wales - 'A Terrible Sight' - 'Yonder Comes Wesley, Galloping' - The Colliers of Kingswood |
Chapter 4 |
Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with
Whitefield; Curious Interruptions; The Mother of the Wesleys Wesley's Correspondents - A Sermon and a Riot - Preaching Incidents - Wesley's Labor Colony - Dispute with Whitefield - Wesley at Northampton and Nottingham - An Ox in the Congregation - Wesley at Cardiff - A Curious Interruption - Wesley's Congregation Stoned - A Bull in the Congregation - Wesley Was 'the Better Mounted' - A Big Crowd at Newcastle - Wesley on His Father's Tombstone - 'Let Them Convert the Scolds' - Death of Wesley's Mother - Mrs. Wesley as Preacher - She Speaks to Two Hundred - How the Wesleys
Were Brought up - 'Conquer the Child's Will' - They Had
Nothing They Cried For - Keeping the Wesley Children in
Order - Susanna Wesley's 'By-laws' - Mr. Stephenson and
Wesley - Newcastle's First Methodist Room |
Chapter 5 |
Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly
Isles; Natural Amphitheater at Gwennap; Wesley in Danger Wesley Refused the Sacrament at Epworth - Wesley and the Cock-fighter - Wesley in Seven Dials - Wesley's Horses Give Trouble - Wesley Goes to Cornwall - The Cornish Tinners - In the Scilly Isles - Remarkable Service at Gwennap - A Mob at Wednesbury
- Wesley in Danger - His Presence of Mind - 'What Soft Hair
He Has' - Wesley's Defenders - The Sleepy Magistrates'
Proclamation - Wesley Nearly Drowned - Methodism on the
Stage |
Chapter 6 |
First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs; Wesley's
Protest against Ungodliness The First Conference - Wesley's
Chancery Bill - Wesley's Effective Letter - Press Gang and
Methodists - Reading the Riot Act - Wesley Seized for a
Soldier - Dramatic Scenes at Falmouth - 'I am John Wesley' -
Wesley Pushed from a High Wall - Riot Act and a Sermon -
Pelted by the Mob at Leeds - Great Excitement at Newcastle -
Wesley's Letter to the Mayor - Preaching under Difficulties
- The Blasphemous Troops - Bonfires Everywhere |
Chapter 7 |
Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's
Protest against Lawlessness Wesley and Faith-healing -
Wesley Encounters Severe Weather - Preaching to the Lead
Miners - How Wesley Dealt with a Mob - The Bargemen and
their Clubs - Remarkable Accident to Wesley - A Shower of
Stones - A Horrible Proposition - Incidents in Ireland -
Wesley Lives on Apple-tea - A Determined Preacher - Zealous
Protestants - Wesley Protests Against Lawlessness - Beaten
by the Mob - Defending Field Preaching - Three Remarkable
Shots with Stones |
Chapter 8 |
Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley
Burned in Effigy; Wesley as an Editor Wesley in Wales - Marries his Brother - Methodists Lease an Abbey - Wesley and the Soldiers' Class - A Ridiculous Question - A Rough Voyage - Remarkable Scenes at Bolton - Wesley at Dudley and Birmingham - Wesley in Wales - Waiting for the Irish Boat - 'Where Is the Parson?' - Wesley Interviews Mrs. Pilkington - Wesley Burned in Effigy - Visits to Kinsale and Cork - At an Irish Funeral - Wesley Rides Ninety Miles - He Left One Shilling and Fourpence
- Wesley as Editor - In Canterbury Cathedral |
Chapter 9 |
Wesley's Marriage; Dealings with
Cornwall Smugglers; His Illness and Recovery
Wesley Decides to Marry - Marriage and Preaching - Wesley
and His Barber - Wesley's Impressions of Scotland - Wesley's
Remarkable Vitality - A Crowded Coach - Wesley Sleeps in a
Cellar - Round Chester Walls - A Boiling Sea - Wesley's
Forgiveness - The Pay of Preaching - Wesley in Glasgow -
Apprenticeship Customs - Cornish Smugglers - Wesley Writes
His Epitaph - Wesley His Own Doctor |
Chapter 10 |
Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions; A
Dream Wesley Retires to Paddington - Persecuting the Methodists - Wesley's Prescriptions - Wesley and the Sunshine - The Room Was Like and Oven - 'This Is No Mazed
Man' - Slandering Wesley in the Pulpit - Extraordinary
Coincidence - Macbeth and Thunder at Drury Lane - At Dover
Castle - Preaching to a Press-gang - Waiting for the Ferry -
Irish Honesty - A Remarkable Premonition Fulfilled -
Preaching in a Loft - A Terrible Dream - The Delights of
North Wales - Wesley's Debt of f 1236 - Wesley on
Electricity as a Cure |
Chapter 11 |
'I do Indeed Live by Preaching'; Wesley's Advice to
Travelers; Wesley and the French Prisoners In Glasgow Cathedral - Wesley Sings a Scotch Psalm - 'I Do Indeed Live by Preaching!' - Wesley at Charterhouse - Wesley Opposed by Mayor and Minister - Fire at Kingswood School - In Norfolk and Suffolk - Another Ninety-mile Journey - Wesley's Advice to Travelers - Wesley at Norwich and Colchester - The Sands of Ravenglass - Useless Doctors - Fire in a Coalpit
- Newcastle as a Summer Resort - Wesley Likes a Soft Cushion
- Defeating the Press-gang - Extraordinary Trances - Wesley
Rides Twenty-four Hundred Miles in Seven Months -
Field-preaching Expedient - Wesley Clothes French Prisoners
- The Truth about Trances |
Chapter 12 |
Wesley's Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations;
the Speaking Statue; Wesley's Pentecost Wesley and the Irish Question - Attack on Wesley's Hat - 'A Kind of Waterspout' - A Tinner's Story - Wesley Writes to the London Chronicle - Preaching in the Inn Yard - Wesley Preaches at Aberdeen - Wesley's Criticism of Edinburgh - A Busy Week - Wesley and Impositions - A Monster Called a Declaration - Some Impudent Women - Seen in a Looking Glass - Wesley at Matlock Bath and Boston - Preaching by Moonlight - Some Rough Journeys - Remarkable Speaking Statue - Wesley and the Oatmeal Sellers - The Irish Whiteboys - Whitewashing Kilkenny
Marble - Wesley in Cornwall - Wesley's Day of Pentecost |
Chapter
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Wesley in Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; 'No Law for
Methodists'; Exhausting Days; Whitefield Wesley in Aberdeen Again - Plain Dealing in Scotland - The Drunkard's Magnificat - Methodists and Their Wealth - A Difficult Crossing - Wesley at Birmingham, Walsal,
and Derby - 'No Law for Methodists' - Wesley Unhorsed -
Wesley on Holy Island - Wesley at the General Assembly - At
Inverness - A Sermon and Congregation to Order - Wesley and
a Scotch Communion - Wesley's Likes and Dislikes - She
Thought, 'I Laugh Prettily' - An Exhausting Day - Seven
Hours on Horseback - The Ride from Pembroke to Swansea -
Wesley's Experiments with Lions |
Chapter
14 |
Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to
Parents; Wesley's Opinion of Mary Queen of Scots Breakfast with Mr. Whitefield - Two Deeds - Wesley Covered with Mud - Wesley Secures Justice for Methodists - Gwennap's Famous Amphitheater - Wesley on a Country Life - Wesley and the Character of a Methodist - The Sexton's Strange Apparition - Queer Houses at Sheerness - Wesley in the Marshalsea Prison - Wesley Travels North - Preaching in a North Wind - Wesley Instructs Parents - Wesley and Mary Queen of Scots - Wesley at Scoon and Holyrood
- Wesley's Old Schoolfellow - Wesley's Wife Ill - Wesley and
Seaport Towns |
Chapter
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Wesley Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology;
Swedenborg, and Riding Horseback; Gwennap and 20,000 People; Death of
Whitefield Wesley's Land-shark - Wesley Opens a New Church - A Forsaken Beauty - Wesley at the Countess of Huntingdon's - The Gentleman with Rotten Eggs - Wesley on Geology and Rousseau - Swedenborg an Entertaining Madman - Wesley and His Horses - Wesley at Nairn,
Elgin, and Aberdeen - Where Are the Highlands? - Wesley and
the Turnpikes - Wesley in St. Albans Abbey - Wesley and the
Druid Monuments - Congregation of 20,000 - Fire at
Portsmouth Dock - Wesley Preaches Whitefield's Funeral
Sermon |
Chapter
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Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; At
70, Wesley Preaches to 30,000 People The Earl of Desmond's Castle - Wesley in Winchester Cathedral - Wesley at Windsor Park - Wesley as Art Critic - Wesley on A Sentimental Journey - Wesley and the Boarding School - Wesley at Greenock and Glasgow - Wesley Receives the Freedom of Perth - Wesley Visits the Bass Rock - Through the Dales - Field-preaching as Wesley's Cross - Good or Bad Spirits? - A Remarkable Dream - Wesley's Letters and Friends - Wesley and His Chaise - Incidents in Ireland - A Neglected School - Mobbed by Masons - Wesley at Derry and Armagh - The Speaking Statue Again - The Earthquake at Madeley
- A Man of Seventy Preaches to 30,000 People - A Monster Elm |
Chapter
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Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton;
Wesley and the American War - Wesley Arrested in Edinburgh Wesley's Terrible Ride - A Collier's Remarkable Escape - Wesley at Corfe
Castle - A Methodist Isaac Newton - Wesley in the Fens -
Wesley's Coach Upset - Wesley and the American War -
Preaching from the Stocks - 'A Very Extraordinary Genius' -
Neat and Elegant Banff - A Town of Beggars - Wesley
Criticizes the Scotch Universities - Smuggling in Cornwall |
Chapter
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On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lorg
George Gordon In Bethnal Green Hamlet - City Road Chapel Begun - Wesley in the Isle of Man - The Manx Men - 'Taught by a Chaise Boy' - Are the Methodists a Fallen People? - Wesley Starts a Magazine - Wesley Discusses Old Sermons - Among the Ruins - City Road Chapel Opened - Wesley Goes North - Wesley Attended by Felons - 'Make Your Will before You Sleep' - Wesley at the German Settlement - The Bishop of Durham's Tapestry - Wesley on 'Boston Stump' - Wesley at Sevenoaks
- Wesley Visits Lord George in the Tower |
Chapter
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An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits
Holland; Incidents in Scotland A Rough Voyage - In the Isle of Man - Preaching at Peel - An Ideal Circuit - 'A Low, Soft, Solemn Sound' - Wesley Enters His Eightieth Year - No Repose for Wesley - A Christian Bishop's Furniture - 'The Tide Is Now Turned' - Wesley Visits Holland - The Reverent Dutch - The Beautiful Hague - At Leyden and Amsterdam - The Warmly Affectionate Dutch - Wesley at Utrecht - Two Hours with Dr. Johnson - Wesley and Early Rising - Remarkable Escape from Prison - The Banks of the Spey
- Twelve and a Half Miles in Heavy Rain - Incidents in
Scotland - Wesley at 81 - Burglary at Wesley's House |
Chapter
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Wesley Collects Money for the Poor; Visits the House of
Lords; His Reasons for his Long Life; 'How is the Tide Turned;' Last
Entries Wesley at Eighty-one Begs f 200 - Fifty Years Growth of Methodism - Wesley Visits the House of Lords - Wesley Visits Hatfield House - Wesley's Threat to Deptford - Wesley Visits the Irish Parliament House - A Visit to the Channel Islands - 'A Little Circumstance' - At the Governor's House - 'Because I Have Lived so Many Years' - Detained by Contrary Winds - Sails for Penzance
- Wesley on His Old Age - Wesley's Reasons for His Long Life
- An Important Conference - 'The Gentle Steps of Age' -
Wesley Sits to Romney - Wesley Explains Methodism - Wesley
Describes Himself at Eighty-five - 'How Is the Tide Turned!'
- Wesley's Eighty-sixth Christmas - The Last Year of the
Journal - A Backsliding Innkeeper - 'I Am Become an
Honorable Man' - Wesley's Last Entries - |
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Wesley's Last
Hours |
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