The Life of John Wesley
John Telford, B.A. · The Founder of Methodism
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The Life of John Wesley by John Telford, B.A.
First published in the nineteenth century and long a standard popular life of the founder of Methodism, John Telford’s Life of John Wesley traces Wesley from his ancestry and Epworth childhood, through his schooldays at Charterhouse and Oxford Methodism, the mission to Georgia, the Aldersgate-era “preparation for the Great Revival,” the Great Awakening and the Moravian and Calvinist controversies, the building of the Methodist societies, his encounters with the mob, his life as a tireless traveller and preacher, his love and marriage, his journals, the deaths of Whitefield and Charles Wesley, his churchmanship, his work as preacher, writer and philanthropist, and his last years, death, character and legacy. This UECF.NET web edition follows the source text and preserves its chapter order, headings, quotations, Scripture references, and the numbering and wording of its 464 endnotes.
- 22 Chapters
- 1 Introduction
- 464 Endnotes
- 331 source pages
- 109,463 words
- ≈ 498 min read
- English
Source PDF: The Life of John Wesley, by John Telford, B.A. (author of “Wesley Anecdotes”), originally published by Hunt & Eaton (New York) and Cranston & Curts (Cincinnati). This UECF.NET edition follows the 1998 “Wesleyan Heritage Library” digital text (© 1998 Wesleyan Heritage Publications), a classic 19th-century biography of John Wesley (1703–1791), now in the public domain. Chapter divisions, headings, quotations, Scripture references, footnote numbering and wording are reproduced from that source; the 464 endnotes are collected on their own page and linked from every reference mark in the text.