CHAPTER XV
SUSANNA WESLEY.
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THE news of Samuel Wesley's death was communicated by a friend and neighbor to Charles, who was then at Bristol, and probably also to John at the Foundry.
The latter had often been rallied by his relatives on his reticence as to family matters, and it appears that he actually started off to meet Charles and go with him to Tiverton to see their widowed sister-in-law, without communicating the sad news to his mother, who was ill in her own room.
Very likely he had not the heart to do so, for all the family knew how dearly she loved her first-born, and what a pattern son he had beento her.
Possibly he commissioned one of his sisters to tell her gently.
How she bore it she herself told Charles : —
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Dear CHARLES, — Upon the first hearing of your brother's death, I did immediately acquiesce in the will of God, without the least reluctance.
Only I marvelled that Jacky did not inform me of it before he left,
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since he knew thereof; but he was unacquainted with the manner of God's dealing with me in extraordinary cases, which, indeed, is no wonder ; for though I have so often experienced His infinite mercy and power in my support, and inward calmness of spirit when the trial would otherwise have been too strong for me, yet His ways of working are to myself incomprehensible and ineffable.
Your brother was exceeding dear to me in this life, and perhaps I have erred in loving him too well.
I once thought it impossible to bear his loss, but none know what they can bear till they are tried.
As your good old grandfather used to say, " That is an affliction that God makes an affliction."
Surely the manifestation of His presence and favor is more than an adequate support under any suffering whatever.
If He withhold His consolations, and hide His face from us, the least suffering is intolerable.
But, blessed and adored be His holy name, it hath not been so with me, though I am infinitely unworthy of the least of all His mercies.
I rejgice in having a comfortable hope of my dear son's salvation.
He is now at rest, and would not return to earth to gain the world.
Why then should I mourn?
He hath reached the haven before me, but I shall soon follow him.
He must not return to me, but I shall go to him, never to part more.
I thank you for your care of my temporal affairs.
It was natural to think that I should be troubled for my dear son's death on that account, because so considerable a part of my support was cut off.
But to say
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the truth, I have never had one anxious thought of such matters; for it came immediately into my mind that God by my child's loss had called me to a firmer dependence on Himself; that though my son was good, he was not my God; and that now our Heavenly Father seemed to have taken my cause more immediately into His own hand; and therefore, even against hope, I believed in hope that I should never suffer more. cannot write much, being but weak.
I have not been down-stairs above ten weeks, though better than I was lately.
Pray give my kind love and blessing to my daughter and Philly.
I pray God to support and provide for her.
SUSANNA WESLEY.
About a month afterwards she wrote again, probably in reply to a letter from Charles, whose headquarters were at Bristol: — Founpry, December 27, 1739.
DEAR CHARLES,
— You cannot more desire to see me than I do to see you.
Your brother, whom [I shall henceforth call Son Wesley, since my dear Sam is gone home, has just been with me and much revived my spirits.
Indeed, I have often found that he never speaks in my hearing without my receiving some spiritual benefit.
But his visits are seldom and short, for which I never blame him, because I know he is well employed, and, blessed be God, hath great success in his ministry.
But, my dear Charles, still I want either
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him or you; for, indeed, in the most literal sense, I am become a little child and want continual succor.
"As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend."
I feel much comfort and support from religious conversation when I can obtain it.
Formerly I rejoiced in the absence of company, and found the less I had of creature comforts the more I had from God.
But, alas! I am fallen from that spiritual converse I once enjoyed.
And why is it so?
Because I want faith.
God is an omnipresent unchangeable God, in whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning ; the fault is in myself, and I attribute all mistakes in judgment and all errors in practice to want of faith in the blessed Jesus.
Oh, my dear, when I consider the dignity of His person, the perfection of His purity, the greatness of His sufferings, but above all His boundless love, I am astonished and utterly confounded ; I am lost in thought. I fall into nothing before Him!
Oh, how inexcusable is that person whe has knowledge of these things, and yet remains poor and low in faith and love.
I speak as one guilty in this matter.
I have been prevented from finishing my letter.
I complained I had none to converse with me on spiritual things, but for these several days I have had the conversation of many good Christians, who have refreshed in some measure my fainting spirits ; and though they hindered my writing, yet it was a pleasing and I hope not an unprofitable interruption they gave me.
I hope we shall shortly speak face to face ; and I shall then, if God permit, impart
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my thoughts more fully.
But then, alas! when you come, your brother leaves me.
Yet that is the will of God, in whose blessed service you are engaged, who has hitherto blessed your labors and preserved your persons.
That He may continue so to prosper your work, and protect you both from evil, and give you strength and courage to preach the true gospel in opposition to the united prayers of evil men and evil angels, is the hearty prayer of, dear Charles,
Your loving mother,
SuSANNA WESLEY.
About this time Emilia Wesley, who had been for a few years married to the sometime apothecary of Epworth, the terribly impecunious Mr.
Harper, became a widow, and, leaving Gainsborough, came with a true and favorite servant to remain with her mother at the Foundry.
It must also have been at this juncture that Mrs. Wesley gave her testimony, in one instance at least, in favor of lay preaching.
John Wesley's work was that of an evangelist and organizer, whose parish was the world; he rode from place to place strengthening the churches, and it was necessary that some one should be left in charge at the Foundry.
The person selected was Mr. Thomas Maxfield, "a young man of good sense and piety."
His duties were to meet the classes and bands, and read and
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2he explain the Scriptures.
From this to preaching 'a sermon was only a step, and he soon did it, speaking with much earnestness and eloquence.
John Wesley was greatly disturbed when he heard of it, and came quickly home.
His mother saw that something was wrong, and asked what itwas.
'Thomas Maxfield has turned preacher, I find," was the curt answer of the man whose natural desire was to be head and chief in whatever he undertook.
Mrs. Wesley soon gave him her opinion on the matter: 'John, you know what my sentiments have been.
You cannot suspect me of readily favoring anything of this kind.
But take care what you do with respect to that young man, for he is as surely called of God to preach as you are.
Examine what have been the fruits of his preaching, and hear him yourself."
The mother's words had weight, and Maxfield preached before his master.
"It is the Lord," exclaimed John Wesley, " let Him do what seemeth Him good.
What am I, that I should withstand God?"
And thus the ordained priest, who had been a stickler for sacerdotal privileges, the scholar and " Fellow of Lincoln," was led to sanction the lay preaching which was destined to form an important element in the Methodism he founded.
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Mrs. Wesley took a warm interest in the women who joined the classes at the Foundry and came there for teaching and advice.
She would naturally do so when well enough.
It was characteristic of a youthful zealot like Charles Wesley to imagine that his mother's views of the plan of salvation were inadequate, and to endeavor to correct them in a long letter.
She not only took what he had to say very meekly, but laid his words to heart; and her humble yet dignified reply to him is the last letter she is known to have written: — Founbry, October 2, 1740.
Dear Cuartes,—I do heartily join with you in giving God thanks for your recovery.
He hath many wise reasons for every event of Providence, far above our apprehension, and I doubt not but His having restored you to some measure of health again will answer many ends which as yet you are ignorant of.
I thank you for your kind letter; I call it so, because I verily believe it was dictated by a sincere desire of my spiritual and eternal good.
There is too much truth in many of your accusations: nor do I intend to say one word in my own defence, but rather choose to refer all things to Him that knoweth all things.
This I must tell you: you are somewhat mistaken in my case.
Alas! it is far worse than you apprehend it to be!
Jam not one of those who have
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never been enlightened, or made partaker of the heavenly gift, or of the Holy Ghost, but have many years since been fully awakened, and am deeply sensible of sin, both original and actual.
My case is rather like that of the Church of Ephesus; I have not been faithful to the talents committed to my trust, and have lost my first love.
'' Yet, is there any hope in Israel concerning this thing?"'
I do not, and by the grace of God I will not, despair ; for ever since my sad defection, when I was almost without hope, when I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me.
Even then He did by His Spirit apply the merits of the great Atonement to my soul, by telling me that Christ died for me.
Shall the God of truth, the Almighty Saviour, tell me that I am interested in His blood and righteousness, and shall I not believe Him?
God forbid!
I do, I will believe; and though I am the greatest of sinners, that does not discourage me ; for all my transgressions are the sins of a finite person, but the merits of our Lord's sufferings and righteousness are infinite!
If I do want anything without which I cannot be saved (of which I am not at present sensible), then I believe I shall not die before that want is supplied.
You ask many questions which I care not to answer ; but I refer you to our dear Lord, who will satisfy you in all things necessary for you to know.
I cannot conceive why you affirm yourself to be no Christian, which is in effect to tell Christ to His face that you have nothing to thank Him for, since you are not the better for anything He hath yet done
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or suffered for you.
Oh! what great dishonor, what wondrous ingratitude, is this to the ever-blessed Jesus !
I think myself far from being so good a Christian as you are, or as I ought to be; but God forbid that I should renounce the little Christianity I have; nay, let me rather grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.
I know not what other opinion people may have of human nature, but, for my part, I think that without the grace of God we are utterly incapable of thinking, speaking, or doing anything good: therefore, if in any part of our life we have been enabled to perform anything good, we should give God the glory.
If we have not improved the talents given us, the fault is our own. I find this is a way of talking much used among this people, which has much offended me ; and I have often wished they would talk less of themselves and more of God.
I often hear loud complaints of sin, etc., but rarely, very rarely, any word of praise and thanksgiving to our dear Lord, or acknowledgment of His Infinite .
The remaining sentences are lost, and, as they probably bore on the kind of persons who frequented the Foundry and its services, it is a pity.
It was about six months after the date of this letter, early in March, 1741, that Kezia Wesley died at Bexley at the age of thirty-two.
It is supposed that she never quite recovered the shock of finding that Wesley Hall had played
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with her youthful affections as a mere pastime while he was pledged to her sister Martha.
She was the youngest, born just after her mother had gone through the terrible ordeal of fright and danger at the Epworth fire.
She had endured many privations herself in her youth, all of which helped to account for her delicacy; but hearts do count for something in women's lives, and an unhappy attachment often produces a want of physical rallying power, especially in one who has no very strong ties to life.
Charles seems to have been present when his sister died, and to have been satisfied with her mental and spiritual state.
The only specific disease from which Mrs.
Wesley suffered was gout, which in her case was hereditary.
It certainly had not arisen from high living and luxury in her own person.
The powers of life gradually failed, and all the remaining daughters gathered round their mother.
She especially asked Anne not to leave her again if she had strength to remain.
Charles was obliged to go away, thinking that she might linger till his return; John was at Bristol, and hearing that she was failing fast, rode off on Sunday evening, July 18, 1742, after preaching to a large congregation.
He reached the Foundry on the 2oth, and after seeing her
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wrote in his journal, "I found my mother on the borders of eternity: but she has no doubt
— or fear, nor any desire but, as soon as God should call her, to depart and be with Christ."
On the following Friday afternoon he saw that the end was very near: she was speechless, but conscious; so he read the commendatory prayer, as he had done seven years previously for his father.
It was four o'clock, and, being weary with watching and emotion, he left her side for a moment to "drink a dish of tea."
One of his sisters called him back.
'She opened her eyes wide," he says, "and fixed them upward for a moment.
Then the lids dropped, and the soul was set at liberty, without one struggle or groan or sigh.
We stood round the bed, and fulfilled her last request, uttered a little before she lost her speech, 'Children, as soon as I am released, sing a psalm of praise to God.'"
It fell to Mrs. Lambert's lot to write to Charles the particulars of his mother's last days, and she said: — "She labored under great trials, both of soul and body, some days after you left her; but God perfected
His work in her about twelve hours before He took her to Himself.
She waked out of a slumber ; and we, hearing her rejoicing, attended to the words she spake,
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which were these, ' My dear Saviour! are you come to help me in my extremity at last?'
From that time she was sweetly resigned indeed ; the enemy had no more power to hurt her.
The remainder of her time was spent in praise."
Mrs. Wesley was buried on Sunday, August Ist, in Bunhill Fields, John reading the funeral service of the Church of England, and Emilia,
Susanna, Hetty, Anne, and Martha standing round.
A large number of friends were assembled, as well as others drawn together by sympathetic curiosity.
Then a hymn was sung, and John Wesley, who in the prime of his early manhood had desired so earnestly that he might not survive his mother, stood by that mother's grave and preached to the assembled multitude one of his most eloquent and impassioned sermons.
A plain stone was soon set at the head of that last resting-place, with an epitaph in verse from the pen of Charles Wesley : — '" Here lies the Body of
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Youngest and last surviving daughter of Dr. Samuel Annesley."
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"Tn sure and steadfast hope to rise, \ And claim her mansion in the skies, A Christian here her flesh laid down, The cross exchanging for a crown.
True daughter of affliction, she, Inured to pain and misery, Mourned a long night of grief and fears,
A legal night of seventy years.
The Father then revealed His Son, Him in the broken bread made known ; She knew and felt her sins forgiven, And found the earnest of her heaven.
Meet for the fellowship above, She heard the call ' Arise, my love.'
'I come,' her dying looks replied, And lamb-like, as her Lord, she died."
It was curious that the usually precise John neither mentioned his father on this tombstone, nor put the date of his mother's birth or death.
He busied himself, however, in having a copperplate engraving made of a very good likeness of her taken during her later years.
A copy of this forms the frontispiece to Kirk's " Mother of the Wesleys," and is seen in miniature at the commencement of Mr. Stevenson's " Memorials of the Wesley Family."
There is also a miniature extant which shows something of what she was like in her prime.
Among her far-away descendants there are one or two women who resemble her very closely in appearance.
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Road Chapel at the expense of the Wesleyan Book Committee, a new stone, with a fresh inscription, was set up over Mrs. Wesley's grave.
Reverence for their sweet singer did not induce them to perpetuate the whole of his verses, and the epitaph now runs :— " Here lies the body of
Mrs. SUSANNA WESLEY,
Widow of the REV. SAMUEL WESLEY, M.A.
(late Rector of Epworth, in Lincolnshire), < who died July 23rd, 1742, Aged 73 years.
She was the youngest daughter of the Rev. SAMUEL ANNESLEY, D.D., ejected by the Act of Uniformity from the Rectory of St. Giles's,
Cripplegate, Aug. 24th, 1662.
She was the mother of nineteen children, of whom the most eminent were the Revs. JOHN and CHARLES WESLEY ; the former of whom was, under God, the Founder of the Societies of the People called Methodists."
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— In 1869 Bunhill Fields, though long before closed to interments, was secured as a cemetery in perpetuity, planted with trees, and laid out with walks leading close to the most remarkable graves.
The spot where Mrs. Wesley's remains are is where the numbers 17 and 42 intersect on the outer wall, and a few yards west-by-south from the tomb of John Bunyan, who was alive and preaching in her long-past girlhood.
An obelisk of Sicilian marble erected to her memory has stood' opposite the City Road Chapel, fronting Bunhill Fields, since December,
1870, bearing a very similar inscription to the one last given.
This little life of Susanna Wesley can hardly be better concluded than in the words of the late Isaac Taylor, himself the son of a mother who, with her husband's assistance, educated the whole of her very large family, and had the satisfaction of seeing them grow up to be among the most cultivated and pious persons of their own or any other generation of English men and women:
'The Wesleys' mother was the mother of Methodism in a religious and moral sense; for, her courage, her submissiveness to authority, the high tone of her mind, its independence, and its self-control, the warmth
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THE family group that surrounded Mrs. Wesley's death-bed consisted of her daughters Emilia, Susanna, Hetty, Anne, and Martha, and her son
John.
Emilia (Mrs. Harper) was now fifty years of age, a widow, and childless; for though an infant had been born to her, it speedily died.
She had known but little comfort during either her single or her married life; her temper was exacting, and not very sweet; she was conscious of possessing talents, and painfully aware that she had had no opportunity of shining.
In youth she was engaged to a Mr. Leybourne, and though in consequence of the disapproval of Mrs. Wesley and Samuel the match was broken off, Emilia was not a woman to forget, or to love again readily.
This disappointment embittered her whole life.
She was very fond of her mother, and her affection for John, who was eleven years her junior, had a good deal of the maternal element in it;
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but when Hetty stumbled she was hard upon her.
Poverty takes a great deal of the sweetness out of a woman's nature, and after her marriage she suffered even more from this cause than when in her girlhood money and clothes
Were scarce at Epworth.
Mr. Harper was scarcely able to maintain himself, the profits of her school did not go very far, she fell into ill-health, had to sell her clothes in order to obtain food, and was reduced to the hourly expectation of having her very bed seized on account of being in arrears with her rent.
Whether that calamity actually did come to pass or no is uncertain; but, at all events, her husband's death left her free to wind up her affairs at Gainsborough and come with an old servant to London.
From that time John supported her, and she was a great deal at the Foundry, though she does not appear to have lived there altogether.
The Epworth ghost did not altogether desert her, as is shown by the following letter to John: —
FEBRUARY I6, 1750.
Dear BrorHeR,—I want most sadly to see you and talk some hours with you as in times past.
Some things are too hard for me; these I want you to solve.
One doctrine of yours and of many more, namely, no happiness can be found in any or all things
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in this world, that as I have sixteen years of my own experience which lie flatly against it, I want to talk with you about it.
Another thing is that wonderful thing called by us " Jeffery.""
You won't laugh at me for being superstitious if I tell you how certainly that something calls on me against any extraordinary new affliction ; but so little is known of the invisible world, that I, at least, am not able to judge whether it be a friendly or an evil spirit.
I shall be glad to know from you where you live, where you may be found.
If at the Foundry, assuredly on foot or by coach I shall visit my dear brother, and enjoy the very great blessing of some hours' converse.
I am your really obliged friend and affectionate sister, Emiiia HARPER.
A memorandum on the back of this note, in John Wesley's own hand, affirms that it was answered on the 18th, but that answer has not been preserved.
"Jeffery" was an agent who usually proclaimed himself by raps and noises, and since, on the 8th of February, about a week previous to the date of the note, London had been thrown into confusion and alarm by a smart shock of earthquake, persons whose faith in the supernatural is not very strong, may be pardoned for imagining that Mrs.
Harper may have mistaken noises produced by that convulsion of nature for those by
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which. the 'sprite of Epworth had been in the Aap iss
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When the Wesleyan body took the wellknown chapel in West Street, Mrs. Harper and the old servant removed to the house which joined it, and took up their abode in rooms which communicated with the chapel by means of a gallery behind the pulpit and a window which, when thrown open, enabled the inmates to join in the services without being seen themselves.
Mrs. Harper became a kindly and much subdued old lady when she had lost her memory, and died from general decay of nature in 1771, when nearly eighty years of age.
It will be remembered that Susanna Wesley, the second daughter of the Epworth family, married Richard Ellison in 1721, and that, though in fairly good circumstances, he was always considered an unpleasant son-in-law.
When the four children born of this union were grown or growing up, a fire occurred in Mr.
Ellison's house, and from that time his wife refused to live with him, and resided with first one and then another of her sons and daughters in London.
The deserted husband tried by every means in his power to get her to return, but she would neither see him nor
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\ reply to his letters.
At last he caused a report of his death to be circulated, and she straightway went down into Lincolnshire to attend his funeral.
Finding that it was only | a ruse to get. her back again, she immediately returned to London, and no one could persuade her to be reconciled to her husband.
Misfortune overtook Mr. Ellison in his later years.
It was the business of the Commissioners of © Sewers in the Fen Country to keep the great drains open, and, as this was neglected, the water flowed all over and submerged his land for a couple of years.
His cattle and horses died, he could raise no crops and obtain no compensation, and was consequently reduced to such poverty that he went to the Foundry and threw himself on the charity of his brother-inlaw, John Wesley, who recommended him to a rich banker having the distribution of some trust-moneys, saying that ''the smallest relief could never be more seasonable."
Although the unhappy man's wife kept aloof, John and Charles were very kind to him, and considered him quite a reformed character.
He died in London early in April, 1760, and Charles Wesley read the burial-service over his remains.
The children of this ill-matched pair were John, Ann, Deborah, and Richard Annesley
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The eldest lived and died at Bristol, ~~ and some of his descendants still reside in that | city.
Ann married Pierre le Liévre, a French refugee, who died leaving her with one son; she afterwards married a Mr. Gaunt.
She was ,a vivacious, clever, handsome little woman, and Mrs. Ellison resided principally with her, and died in her house, at the age of sixty-nine, early in December, 1764.
John Wesley wrote to Charles on the 7th, saying, " Sister Sukey was in huge agonies for five days, and then died in full assurance of faith.
Some of her last words when she had been speechless for some time were ' Jesus is here; Heaven is love!' "
Mrs. Gaunt's son by her first marriage was named Pierre after his father, and educated at Kingswood, at the great school founded by the Wesleys near Bristol.
He anglicized his Christian name into Peter, and dropped the particle before his surname.
He went into the Church and became head-master of the Lutterworth Grammar School, and curate and assistant to Mr. Johnson, who, in those days of pluralities,
"was rector of Lutterworth and vicar of Claybrook.
At the latter place Mr. Johnson had a very nice house and grounds, and received pupils, among whom was the late Lord Macaulay.
Mr. Li¢vre married a Miss Sturges and
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reared six children.
William, the last of them, died about twenty years ago at Bruntingthorpe, in Leicestershire, where he was probably master of one of those small endowed schools which have now either been remodelled by the Commissioners or absorbed by other educational institutions.
He was a retiring, studious man, with the soul and much of the felicitous skill in diction of the true poet; and had his lot been cast in literary circles he would no doubt. have made a name and a niche for himself.
As it was, he was laughed at by his family for his rhyming propensities, and degenerated into the fecklessness often seen in those who have missed their true vocation.
The Derbyshire and Leicestershire papers, however, gladly accepted his verses for their Poet's Corners.
Several of them are very pretty, and, were they reprinted, would find favor with many.
Deborah Ellison also married a French refugee, a silk-weaver named Pierre Collett; and one of her daughters became the wife of a prominent Wesleyan, Dr. Byam.
Richard Annesley Ellison died when only twenty-seven, leaving two daughters.
The eldest of them married Mr. Voysey, of the King's House, Salisbury, and became the mother of two sons and two daughters.
The elder son
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/ died unmarried; the elder daughter married the Comte de Fauconpret de Thulus, a French savant of great reputation, who, during his exile in this country, translated all Sir Walter Scott's novels into French.
On the accession of Louis Philippe in 1830, he returned with his wife to France, where he held a high position in the University of Paris.
Their home was at Fontainebleau, where they gathered round them many of the choice spirits of the day, and there
M. de Fauconpret died in 1842.
His widow died at Hackney in the summer of 1868.
Her younger sister was twice married, first to Mr.
Edlin, and secondly to Mr. Bristow.
Two of her sons and her three daughters by her first husband are all living, and she herself has died while this work has been passing through the press.
Mrs.
Ellison's youngest grandson, Annesley Voysey, married, and became the father of Henry Voysey, an architect of some note, Richard Voysey, who took orders in the Church of England, and the Rev. Charles Voysey, whose career is well known.
No one in this branch of the family has ever been deficient in brain power, or in the courage to maintain his or her own opinions.
Hetty Wesley (Mrs. Wright) was in very poor health at the time of her mother's death; she
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+, was worn out by what she endured at the hands of her besotted husband, who, nevertheless, seems to have preserved some kind of affection for her.
She had several children, who died, much to her grief, in their babyhood;_ but a daughter, named Amelia, is supposed to have lived for some years, even if she did not survive her mother.
She is said to have retained the traces of her youthful beauty till quite late in life.
She had been the trusted — friend, and in his latter days the nurse of her uncle Matthew, who was very good to her ina pecuniary sense.
In 1743 she was living at Stanmore in Middlesex; soon after she became a Methodist, and saw a good deal of her brothers.
They were persuaded that the Clifton Hot-wells, rightly used, would cure most physical evils, and accordingly sent her there.
They had many friends in Bristol and its neighborhood, and their sister was received by a Mrs. Vigor, with whom she remained for several months.
In the autumn of 1745 she was at home again, and wrote a letter to Charles, in which she spoke affectionately of her husband: — LONDON, FRITH STREET, October 4, 1745.
Dearest Brotuer, —I received both your kind letters and thank you for them, but am surprised you have heard no account of my better health, though I could
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he a Pie not write myself, since many have seen me who I know correspond with you, and some of them are gone to Bath or Bristol lately, especially sister Naylor and Mrs. Wigginton.
Indeed, I continue exceeding weak, keeping my bed, except when I rise to have it made, and it is almost incredible what a skeleton I am grown, so that my bones are ready to come through my skin.
But through mercy, the fever that immediately threatens me (with a violent cough and some fatal symptoms) is gone off, and I am more likely to recover than ever; nay, if I could once get my strength, I should not make a doubt of it.
This ease of body and great calm of mind, I firmly believe, is owing to the prayer of faith.
I think this support the more extraordinary, because I have no sense of God's presence, ever since I took my bed; and you know what we are when left to ourselves under great pain and apprehensions of death.
Yet, though I am yet in desertion, and the enemy is very busy, I enjoy so great a measure of quietness and thankfulness as-is really above nature.
Hallelujah ! Whether or no the bitterness of death is past, I am perfectly easy and resigned, having given up this, with dear Will's spiritual welfare and all other things, to the Sovereign Physician of souls and bodies.
Dearest brother, no selfish consideration can ever make me wish your stay in this most dangerous, diabolical world; yet we must always say, " Thy will be done ;"' and I am pleased still to think God will permit us to meet again, though I cannot say I desire life a minute longer, even upon these terms.
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gives his love, and would be unfeignedly glad to see you.
Pray join in prayer with me still that he may persevere.
Matty, too, gives her duty and desires your prayers.
Neither of their souls prosper as I could / wish them.
Strange, that though we know sanctification is a gradual work, we want our neighbors to go faster than ourselves; but poor Willy only waits for the first gift.
I have not one fear for those who are truly in earnest.
If the nation is run stark mad in politics, though never a jot the wiser or holier, no wonder that the person you mentioned in your last is brimful of them, though she keeps within bounds, and does not talk treason, whatever she may think.
I am glad the believers I know seem to run into no extreme about the present affairs, either of losing the one thing needful by talking too much or praying too little.
The Lord i give us a right judgment in all things.
My prayers, love, and best wishes attend all dear friends at Bristol, from whom I have received innumerable obligations; but, above all, Mrs. Vigor and her family, who showed unwearied love in serving and humoring me.
It has been one of my heaviest crosses that I have been unable to write to them all; but if ever I recover, I despair not of doing it yet, if acceptable from a novice.
You think, perhaps, I may write to them as well as you ; but, dear Charles, I write now in bed, and you cannot believe what it costs me. I trust to remember and bless you many times yet before I die ;
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wishing we may have another happy meeting first, if it is best.
So, with prayers for the universal Church, ministers, assistants, and all mankind, I take leave to subscribe myself your most obliged and loving sister,
MernHer. WRIGHT.
Mrs. Wright seems to have partially recovered from this illness, though she was never strong again; but in January and February, 1750, it was evident that her end was approaching.
She shared in the exaggerated and almost hysterical sentiments so common among the early Methodists, and to a friend who went to see her said,
"T have ardently wished for death, because you know we Methodists always die in a transport of joy."
Charles seems to have been the only brother just then in London, and he speaks of her on March 14th and 18th as "very near the haven;" but when he called on the 2ist, her spirit had just departed.
On the 26th, he adds, "T followed her to her quiet grave, and wept with them that weep."
She was fifty-three years of age.
Mr. Wright was inconsolable, and begged Charles Wesley not to forsake him, though his sister was dead, He survived her several years, married again, and did not always live peaceably with his second wife.
For some years he saw nothing of the Wesleys, but, when
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struck down by palsy, sent for Charles, and was much rejoiced to see him.
That sanguine evangelist saw reason for hope in his end, and perhaps, after all, his faults were rather those of the head than of the heart.
Dr. Adam Clarke collected and published ten of Mrs. Wright's poems; they were in accordance with the ideas of the people among whom she moved, and tinged with the melancholy that saddened her existence; but unbounded weariness of this world, and ecstatic longing for the unknown and unknowable future, is always morbid and unhealthy.
The only verse worth quoting here is from a little poem addressed to a mother on the death of her children : — "Though sorer sorrows than their birth Your children's death has given ; Mourn not that others bear for earth, While you have peopled Heaven."
We have no further glimpse of Anne Wesley (Mrs. Lambert) and her husband after their presence at the mother's funeral in Bunhill Fields, nor is anything known of their son's career.
Martha Wesley (Mrs. Hall) so closely resembled her brother John in personal appear-
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ance, that' Dr. Adam*Clarke declared that no j \ one would have known which was which if they had only been dressed alike.
Her handwriting, also, was very much like his, and this must have arisen from the fact that when she was about nineteen she wrote ' miserably," to quote her own expression, and felt very far inferior to Emilia and Hetty.
John, therefore, set her some copies, which she imitated most carefully, and thus modelled her calligraphy by his.
We have already seen that she lived with her husband at Salisbury, and that Mrs. Wesley spent a good deal of time with them before her removal to the Foundry.
During her residence in that city, Mrs. Hall had ten children, only one of whom lived beyond infancy.
Mr.
Hall was a strange, and, as it proved, an immoral man.
He possessed all the qualifications necessary for a Mormon elder, and had he lived in these days, would very probably have joined that body.
A good many of his shortcomings resulted from reaction after the strain and tension of religious fervor in his youth; he began to think for himself, and to entertain doubts which, though common enough now, were then regarded with horror.
In a word, Mr. Hall became unorthodox and refused to believe in a great many doctrines which are now passed
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over in silence except by very ardent religionists.
This was the true head and front of his offending in the estimation of many of John and Charles Wesley's coadjutors, who condemned him in stronger terms than the brothers did themselves.
Human nature is prone to these extremes.
There is a certain hardness about the following letter from John, written to Mrs. Hall very shortly after the burial of their mother.
It is as if he would insinuate that the time spent by a mother in her natural duties towards her children must be abstracted from that which should be occupied in furthering her own spiritual advancement, and, if so, is an item of a very selfish creed.
Happily, most of us believe that in rightly and conscientiously performing our parental and other obligations we are best fulfilling the ends for which we are created.
John Wesley, who never had a child of his own, and whose marriage was not precisely a union of souls, looked at the matter from quite another point of view.
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, November 17, 1742.
Dear Sister, —I believe the death of your children is a great instance of the goodness of God towards you.
You have often mentioned to me how much of your time they took up.
Now that time is restored to you,
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Scand you have Polar to do Ort to serve our Lord, without carefulness and without distraction, till you are sanctified in body, soul, and spirit.
As soon as I saw Mr. Hall, I invited him to stay at the Foundry, but he desired I would have him excused.
There is a strange - Inconsistency in his temper and sentiments with regard tome.
The st brethren have gradually infused into
Me . him as much as they could of their own contempt of -me and my brother, and dislike of our whole method of proceeding, which is as different from theirs as light from darkness.
Nay, they have blunderingly taught him to find fault even with my economy and outward management, both of my family and society.
Whereas I know this is the peculiar talent which God has given me, wherein (by His grace) I am not behind the very chiefest of them.
Notwithstanding this, there remains in him something of his old regard for me which he had at Oxford, and by and by it will prevail.
He will find out these wretched men, and the clouds will flee away.
My belief is that the present design of God is to visit the poor desolate Church of England ; and that therefore neither deluded Mr. Gambold nor any who leave it will prosper.
Oh! pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
"They shall prosper that love thee.''
Mr. Hall has paid me for the books.
I don't want any money of you; your love is sufficient.
But write as often and as largely as you can to your affectionate friend and brother, Ww .
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This letter proves how very far from John Wesley's own thoughts was any secession from the Church of England, and also shows him to have been thoroughly aware of his own gift for organization.
-It is very uncertain whether Mrs. Hall confided in her relations so far as to tell them of her husband's infidelities till she had been outraged by them for many years.
She was a woman of the highest and rarest type, and so resolutely crushed out all natural selfishness that she nursed the children of others with as much devotion as if they had been her own, while for the unhappy Hagars who gave them birth she showed as much tenderness and sympathy as if they had not been preferred by her husband to herself.
Mr. Hall in his better moments felt and showéd the greatest admiration of her conduct; but he was a weak mortal, and had no control over himself.
It is said that on one occasion the father was angry with the Isaac of the family while his mother was tending an Ishmael, and frightened the child terribly by locking him up in a dark cupboard for some very trivial fault.
This was almost more than she could endure, but she was determined that her husband's authority over his boy should not suffer.
The punishment was out of all propor-
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tion to the offence, but she could not persuade him of it. At last she reminded him that though he was unreasonably passionate with her child, she had not turned his out of the cradle, but declared that she would do it unless he released and forgave the terrified little fellow.
John and Charles ultimately removed their nephew from his father's house and educated him at their own expense; but when about fourteen he caught the small-pox at school, and died before his mother could reach him.
This was a grief which it was feared would have killed her; but she was patient and resigned, and Time, the great healer, brought her consolation.
Charles Wesley once asked his sister how she could provide comforts and even money in her hour of need for a woman who had usurped her, place.
'Ah," she said, ''I knew I could obtain what I wanted from many; but she, poor creature, could not, for so many would make a merit of abandoning her to the distress she had brought upon herself. ... I did not act as a woman, but as a Christian."
It was a sublime Christianity, and worthy of that Master who did not spurn Magdalen from His feet.
Few, indeed, are the professing Christians who attain to anything like it.
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so generous that her brother Charles said, "It is in vain to give Patty anything to add to her comforts, for she invariably gives it away to some person poorer than herself."
In 1747 Mr. Hall became so incensed during one of John's visits to Salisbury, probably by his remonstrances, that he turned both him and Martha out of doors.
Shortly afterwards Mrs.
Hall left him, and wrote to explain the reason why : — " Being at last convinced that I cannot possibly oblige you any longer by anything I can say or do, I have for some time determined to rid you of so useless a burden, as soon as it should please God to give me an opportunity.
If you have so much humanity left for a wife who has lived so many years with you as to allow anything towards a maintenance, I will thank you."
She is thought to have forgiven and returned to him after this, but only to leave him again and seek John's protection at the Foundry.
That she harbored no unkind feelings against her faithless husband, and regarded the separation only as temporary, is shown in another letter.
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time, but desired conditions which, I fear, you do not find yourself at all disposed to grant.
Indeed, I am obliged to plead guilty to the charge, and, as' I look upon you as the sole judge, I shall make no appeal from that sentence ; only I desire leave to speak a few
'words before you pass it.
You may remember, whenever I was angry enough to talk of leaving you, you could never work me up to such a height as to make me say I would never return."
Unlike the majority of badly treated women, Mrs. Hall never spoke ill of her husband, and used to say that it was impossible for a wife with true love in her heart to do so.
She was living at the Foundry when Charles married Miss Sarah Gwynne at Garth in South
Wales, and wrote her her affectionate congratulations.
As the pair did not for some little time provide themselves with a home, she would gladly have prepared for their reception in London, but they preferred settling at Bristol.
To that city Mr. Hall also betook himself, and summoned his wife to join him; but as his feelings towards her family were the reverse of friendly, she evidently did not communicate with Charles or his young wife in Stoke's Croft.
Charles met her by chance in the street when on his way to the room where he preached, and took her with him; but in the middle of the \
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sermon Mr. Hall entered and fetched her away.
The next day he went in again, calling Charles by name.
Flight appeared the wisest' policy, and Mr. Hall followed, but did not succeed in discovering his brother-in-law's retreat.
The affair ended in Mrs. Hall's departure to London, and that of her peccant husband to Ireland, whence he finally went to the West Indies, but not alone.
On the death of his companion he returned to England full of penitence, and was warmly received by his patient wife, who remained with and nursed him till his death, which took place at Bristol in January, 1776, forty years after their marriage.
During his last hours he exclaimed, "I have injured an angel,—an angel that never reproached me."
These words made up to Mrs. Hall for all the sorrow he had caused her.
In the long interval between Charles Wesley's marriage and Mr. Hall's death, Mrs. Hall had come to know a good deal of her Welsh sisterin-law, and also of her friends the Joneses of Fonmon Castle, with whom she became so intimate that they lived together for some time at Salisbury.
She also took an almost maternal interest in the children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Wesley, who named a little girl after her.
Like many other babes born to them, it died; but
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when Charles, junior, Sally, and Samuel arrived, successively, she took the warmest delight in them.
Sally grew up to be her beloved companion and friend, and, had it not been for the _ intimacy between them, much that we now know of the Wesley family would have been lost.
Mrs. Hall appears to have been very serenely happy during the latter part of her life, which was principally spent in London.
She was a methodical, deliberate person, looking on the bright side of everything and everybody, and shunning all sad subjects.
She spent a great deal of time with Dr. Johnson, who enjoyed her lively conversation and depended on her strong and accurate memory.
He would gladly have persuaded her to become an inmate of his house, but two old ladies, Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Du Moulin, lived with him already, and she thought her own presence, except as an occasional visitor, unnecessary.
John Wesley respected the old lexicographer very highly, and sent him, through Mrs. Hall, a copy of his '"' Notes on the Old and New Testa- 'ment."
She also had the pleasure of introducing them personally to one another, and Dr.
Johnson liked the zealous, scholarly man extremely, and would fain have seen more of him.
He got quite provoked because John, who had
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. long ago taken leave of leisure, had not time to_ cultivate him and his circle, and said one day to Boswell, 'I hate to meet John Wesley; the dog enchants you with his conversation, and then breaks away to go and visit some old | woman."
And again:
'" John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure.
He is always obliged to go at acertain hour.
This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do."
One feels that Dr. Johnson certainly was not made for an age of railways and steamboats, but that John Wesley would have taken to them very kindly.
Curiously enough Mrs. Hall was neither witty herself nor admired wit in others.
Even as a child she was grave and staid; and when her mother once found her little ones romping and laughing, and exclaimed, "Ah! you will all be serious some day,' Martha looked up in her face and asked, '" Shall I too be more serious?" and Mrs. Wesley answered her with an emphatic
"Vo," as if that were impossible.
Charles said, " Sister Patty was too wise to be witty; " and it" is on record that once, when Dr. Johnson was in doleful mood and holding forth on the unhappiness of mortals in her presence, she said:
"Doctor, you have always lived among the
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wits, not the saints; and they are a race of people the most unlikely to seek true happiness or find the pearl of great price."
She refused to admire Swift's works, which were favorites with her brothers and sisters, and especially disliked "The Tale of a Tub," which she considered irreverent in the extreme.
After spending some twenty years of married life in Bristol, Charles Wesley and his wife removed with their children to London, where Mrs. Hall had the pleasure of introducing her niece Sally to the burly Doctor, and showing him the verses she wrote from time to time.
The sage used to pat her head kindly, and say to her aunt, '" She will do, Madam, she will do."
James Boswell tells, in his life of Johnson, how on Easter Sunday, 1781, Mrs. Hall, a Mr.
Allen, and himself dined with the Doctor and the two old ladies who were his pensioners.
The day naturally gave its tone to the conversation, and Boswell '"' mentioned a kind of religious Robin Hood society, which met every Sunday evening at Coachmakers' Hall for free debate, and that the subject for this night was the text which relates what happened at our
Saviour's death, —' And the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrec-
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tion, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.'
Mrs. Hall said it was a very curious subject, and she should much like to hear it discussed. Johnson replied, somewhat warmly,
"One would not go to such a place to hear it.'
I, however, resolved that I would go.
' But, Sir,' said she to Johnson, 'I should like to hear you discuss it.
He seemed reluctant to engage in it.
She talked of the resurrection of the human race in general, and maintained that we shall be raised with the same bodies.
Johnson:
' Nay, Madam, we see that it is not to be the same body, for the Scripture uses the illustration of grain sown.
You cannot suppose that we shall rise with a diseased body; it is enough if there be such a sameness as to distinguish identity of person.
The Doctor told the story of hearing his mother's voice one day calling him when he was at Oxford.
She seemed desirous of knowing more, but he left the question in obscurity."
On this occasion Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Hall talked at their host so persistently that he at last stopped them by quoting the well-known line from the ' Beggar's Opera": — '¢ But two at a time there 's no mortal can bear."
Dr. Johnson had a little weakness for being the chief speaker, and no man likes to be what he calls "preached at" by a woman.
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Hall's preaching, however, was probably of a mild description, and dealt with theories rather than persons.
She had something good to say of every one; and if faults had to be mentioned, she always remembered extenuating circum- ' stances.
She remained well and strong and able to take long walks to the last; and when she was over eighty, Sally Wesley tried to obtain a promise that she might be with her in her dying moments.
.""Yes," replied heraunt, "if you are able to bear it; but I charge you not to grieve for me more than half an hour."
John Wesley died in March, 1791, leaving Mrs. Hall the sole survivor of the Epworth household, and she felt his loss deeply.
She was then eighty-five, and only outlived him by about four months.
In the beginning of July it was evident that she was gradually sinking, and Sally claimed the privilege of watching by her; but the invalid, unselfish to the end, insisted that she should always go home at night, "lest you should not sleep—then your anxiety would create mine."
She died on the 12th; and shortly before, when her niece asked if she suffered any pain, she answered, 'No, but a new feeling."
Just. before the end she called Sally, and pressing her hand said, "I. have the
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assurance which I have long prayed for. Shout!"
Immediately afterwards she expired.
It seemed very natural that she should be buried in the same grave as her favorite brother in the City Road Burial Ground; and never was a more suitable inscription placed on any tomb than when, after her name and age, these words of the wise man of Israel were cut on the stone:
"She opened her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue was the law of kindness."
Mrs. Hall left her very small income, as well as her papers and letters, to her beloved niece, who prized them as the relics of one who had been to her a second mother.
Most incidents in the lives of John and Charles Wesley are so well known that it is needless to recapitulate them here.
It is, however, rather curious that the family name has been transmitted only through Charles and his youngest son, Samuel.
Mrs. Charles Wesley was twentythree at the time of her marriage, and her husband forty-two.
They had nine children, only three of whom lived to grow up; and, as the eldest son and the daughter lived and died single, all the descendants are those of Samuel, several of whose children are still alive.
The maiden name of Mrs.
C. Wesley was Sarah Gwynne, and her parents lived at Garth,
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in South Wales.
Her mother belonged to a very rich family, being one of six sisters, each of whom had 430,000 for her marriage portion.
Beautiful voices and musical talent were hereditary in the family, so it was doubtless mainly through their mother that the two sons, Charles and Samuel, derived the genius for music that has made them famous.
The union of Charles and Sarah Wesley lasted thirty-nine years, when he died at the age of eighty, and she survived him for thirty-four years, being ninety-six when she departed.
Their eldest son, Charles, born December 11, 1757, first showed his talent when nearly three years old, by picking out a tune correctly on the harpsichord, and, what was more, putting a true bass to it.
At four years of age his father took the little fellow to London, where the first musicians of the day pointed out that he ought to be brought up to follow his natural bent as a profession.
His father and uncle do not appear to have made the slightest objection, and it was probably very pleasing to them when they found that the boy turned instinctively to cathedral music.
Dr. Boyce was long his principal master, and after him Mr. Kelway, who introduced his pupil and protégé to the notice of King
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Under his father's tuition he received the rudiments of a classical education, grew up to have very gentle and even courtier-like manners, and for his simplicity and kindness of heart was a universal favorite; but so little calculated was he to take care of himself in this naughty world, that his sister devoted herself to him, and acted as a sort of guardian angel, though a very unobtrusive one.
The first time Charles received the royal command to attend at Buckingham House was in 1775, when he was just eighteen; and he was carried across the Park in a sedan-chair, after having been, it is said, carefully dressed by his mother and sister.
From that time forth he was annually summoned to Windsor; and when Princess Charlotte was old enough to require a music-master, he was selected for the post.
He ultimately became organist at Marylebone Church, and was well known in musical circles.
One who knew him well, said, "In music he was an angel; in everything else a child."
He scarcely knew a day's ill-health, and died in 1834 at the age of seventy-seven.
Sally, as she was called to distinguish her _ from her mother, was born at Bristol in 1759, and from the first was a great favorite with her father, who was a most affectionate parent.
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Busy as he was riding to and fro between Lon- 'don and Bristol, and fulfilling his brother's behests, which were neither few nor far between, he managed to write long letters to his wife about the children.
The little girl must have been about a year old when he wrote: "She should take after me, as she to is be my child.
One and another give me presents for Charley, but nobody seems to take any notice of poor Sally — even her godmother seems to slight her.'
He was always thinking of his daughter, contriving surprises for her, and bidding her mother send her up the hill to Cotham from their home in Stoke's
Croft, that she might be strengthened by the country breezes.
She grew up a great reader, and early aimed at authorship, in verse of course, or she would not have been a Wesley.
John Wesley was very fond of her, and when she was about fifteen promised to take her with him to Canterbury and Dover.
A scandal arose which seemed to make it imperative that he should remain in London, and Charles urged him to postpone the journey.
"Brother," said John, " when I devoted to God my ease, my time, my life, did l except my reputation?
No.
Tell Sally I will take her to Canterbury to-morrow."
She was a clever woman, and wrote a very neat, clear hand, expressing herself always in
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pure English, such as might be written by a lady of the present day; and her orthography was perfect.
Every language she had the opportunity of learning came to her easily, as it had done to her father and grandfather; and she added to her slender income by translating foreign letters for the journals of the day.
Like her mother, she early lost her personal beauty through small-pox, and it added to the shyness of her disposition, which, however, wore off to some extent in her later years.
She supplied Dr. Adam Clarke with a great many of the details he used in his ''Wesley Family."
It is difficult to select a short poem illustrative of her style; but the following, which was addressed to Campbell on the death of one of his children, is avery good specimen.
It was first published from her own manuscript in 1876 in Mr. Stevenson's "' Memorials," and was republished in the " Quiver," with some original letters of her own and her brother's, a few months later.
ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT.
For thee no treacherous world prepares A youth of complicated snares :
No wild ambition's raging flame Shall tempt thy ripened years with fame; No avarice shall thine age decoy Far off from sweet diffusive joy ;
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! Happy beyond the happiest fate, Snatched from the ills that vex the great, From anxious toils, entangling strife, And every care of meaner life.
Happy ! though thou hast scarcely trod The thorny path which leads to God, Where friendless virtue weeps and prays,
Oft wildered in the doubtful maze, Nor knew that virtue wept in vain — Nor felt a greater ill than pain, Already sainted in the sky, Sweet babe! that did but weep and die !
Miss Wesley died at Bristol, in the autumn of 1828, of sore throat, when sixty-nine years of age.
She was buried in the same grave with five of her brothers and sisters, in St. James's
Churchyard; and Charles, inconsolable for her loss, and all but incapable of acting for himself, posted back to London, at an expenditure of thirty-six pounds!
Samuel was born on February 24, 1766, on the eighty-second anniversary of Handel's birth.
He was not so precocious as Charles in music, and, instead of instinctively playing a true bass by ear, did not attempt it till he had learned his notes.
Some one gave him a small violin, and he used to accompany Charles on it, and sing to his playing, and sometimes, rather to the horror of those holding the notions of the time,
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—that an elder brother was to be held infallible — by the younger, — he would presume to find fault.
He began composing an oratorio called "Ruth" before he was six years old, and had quite finished and written it down by the time he was cight, when he gravely presented it to Dr. Boyce, who received it with ceremonious thanks.
He must have been quite a child when he took the organ at Bath Abbey for a month, and played the first violin in many private concerts.
He made satisfactory progress in his general education, and had plenty of common sense.
After Charles Wesley removed to London, and when his sons were a good deal talked about, Dr. Johnson — who, as is well known, had no ear for music —felt that, it was his, bounden duty, out of respect and friendship for the family, to call and hear the lads play.
He made no preamble about the matter, but at once introduced the subject by saying —in his ponderous fashion—to the father, "I understand, Sir, your boys are skilled in music; pray, let me hear them."
They were always willing, and sat down to their instruments at once.
Dr.
Johnson took a chair, and, picking up a book from the window-seat, immediately began to read and to roll about, as was his custom.
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_moment the music ceased he looked up, closed his book, said, '"' Young gentlemen, I am much obliged to you," and departed.
Samuel Wesley had a great dislike to London, and for many years sought and found musical engagements in the country.
After his marriage he lived for,some time near Barnet, and then at Camden Town, which was quite rural in those days.
He was an indefatigable letter-writer, and used to fill many sheets of paper with musical and other gossip, for the amusement of Charles and Sally.
He gave at least ten '' hostages to fortune,' and died in October, 1837, in his seventy-second year.
He lived to see his eldest son, Charles, a Doctor of Divinity, and Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal.
For thirty years Dr. Wesley was thus connected with St. James's Palace, and, in his official capacity, was present when Queen
Victoria was confirmed, crowned, and married, and also when she was " churched," after the birth of her first child, the Princess Royal.
He was at the royal infant's christening, and, seventeen years later, at her marriage with the Crown
Prince of Prussia.
He died at St. James's in 1859, and left two daughters.
Samuel Sebastian Wesley, well known as a Doctor of Music, was the third son of Samuel
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When little more than twenty-one he was chosen organist of Hereford Cathedral, where, a year or two afterwards, he married the sister of the Dean, Dr. Merewether.
In 1835 he became organist at Exeter Cathedral; but, after remaining there for seven years, he went to Leeds, and held the post of organist of the parish church during part of the late Dean Hook's long and vigorous incumbency.
In 1849 the position of organist at Winchester Cathedral was offered to and accepted by him.
This was a position very much to his taste, especially as it enabled his five sons to be educated at Winchester School.
In 1865 he became organist at Gloucester Cathedral, and from that time took a prominent part in the musical festivals of the West of England.
Two of his sons are clergymen in the Church of England, two are Doctors of Medicine, and one is pushing his way in Australia.
He died on the 19th of April, 1876, at the comparatively early age of sixty-six, which, to quote his Aunt Sally, when speaking of another relative, was far from being the term of life "attained by our respectable ancestors."
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This is as John himself would have had it, for he was no Separatist, though he could not stop the movement of which he was the mainspring; now did he wish to do so, but he did not see that it would necessarily lead to secession.
Blood, however, will tell, and a vast amount of talent and energy are still manifested in all the descendants of the Epworth family.
Impetuous and quick-witted, and, perhaps, not overmuch given to take thought for the morrow, they must all be up dnd doing; and in these characteristics they vindicate their lineage, and the vigor of that original strain which is still so far from being worn out.
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Miss Martineau was a remarkable woman, in a century that has not been deficient in notable characters.
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She was a poet anda novelist, but not as such did she make good her title to distinction.
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She was eminent as a political economist, a theologian, a journalist, and a historian.
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Her biography should be read by all in search of entertainment."
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"The present volume has already shared the fate of several of the recent biographies of the distinguished dead, and has been well advertised by the public contradiction of more or less important points in the relation by the living friends of the dead genius.
One of Mrs. Miller's chief concerns in writing this life seems to have been to redeem the character of Harriet Martineau from the appearance of hardness and unamiability with which her own autobiography impresses the reader.
. Mrs. Miller, however, succeeds in this volume in showing us an altogether different side to her character, —a home-loying, neighborly, bright-natured, tender-hearted, witty, lovable, and altogether womanly woman, as well as the clear thinker, the philosophical reasoner, and comprehensive writer whom we already knew." — The Index.
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Miss M. will rank with any of them in womanliness or gifts or grace.
At home or abroad, in public or private.
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It isa graceful and unpretentious little biography, and tells al] that need be told concerning one of the greatest writers of the time.
It is a deeply interesting if not fascinating woman whom Miss Blind presents," says the New York Tribune.
"Miss Blind's little biographical study of George Eliot is written with sympathy and good taste, and is very welcome.
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The story of the three sisters is infinitely sad, but it is the ennobling sadness that belongs to large natures cramped and striving for freedom to heroic, almost desperate, work, with little or no result. The author of this intensely interesting, sympathetic, and eloquent biography, is a young lady and a poet, to whom a place is given in a recent anthology of living English poets, which is supposed to contain only the best poems of the best writers.'?
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. Emily Bronté here becomes well known to us and, in one sense, this should be praise enough for any biography.""
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When we add to this, that Miss Robinson has told their story zo¢ in prosaic language, but with a litera style exhibiting all the qualities essential to good biography, our readers will understand that this life of Emily Bronté is not only as interesting as a novel, but a great deal more interesting than most novels.
As it presents most vividly a general picture of the family, there seems hardly a reason for giving it Emily's name alone, except perhaps for the masterly chapters on * Wuthering Heights,' which the reader will find a grateful condensation of the best in that powerful but somewhat forbidding story. We know of no point in the Bronté history — their genius, their surroundings, their faults, their happiness, their misery, their love and friendships, their peculiarities, their power, their gentleness, their patience, their pride,
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Everybody knows that it was not such a life as the women of England and America are accustomed to live, and as the worst of men are glad to have them live. ...
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This brilliant little biography is strongly written.
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No one can doubt that this life was worth the writing, and even earnest students of the French Revolution will be glad to refresh their memories of Lamartine's ' History of the Girondins,' and again have brought vividly before them the terrible tragedy of Mme. Roland's life and death.'? —
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