The Young People's Wesley

rming power of grace than he hastened to declare

miners in their darkness, to the Newgate felons in their loathsome cells, to the wealthy and refined worshipers at St. John's and

wned upon him. But while God smiled he knew no fear. In his extremity he took counsel of Whitefield, resulting in a firm purpose to do the work to which Providence seemed to have clearly called them. Churches were closed, to be sure, but the unsaved and perishing were everywhere except in the churches, and to reach and to save them they betook themselves to the wide, wide world. They were now seen in hospitals, administering spiritual comfort to the sick; in prisons, offering ete

than heathen." They seemed to have been forsaken of God and man. This was a fit place to test the power of "the Gospel of the grace of God." The intrepid Whitefield was the first to break the ice.

e wild Indians of our Western plains. They are seen in Ireland, in all her towns and cities, calling her papal-cursed sons to a knowledge of Jesus. Again their voices are heard amid the hills and va

ree weeks, one morning about three o'clock, Mr. Wesley turned over, and finding Nelson awake, clapped him on his side, saying, "Brother Nelson, let us be of good cheer; I have one whole side yet, for the skin is off but one side." As they were leaving Cornwall Mr. Wesley stopped his horse to

mprehensive conception of the immense amount of labor perfo

ng in all at least some two hundred and ninety thousand miles, a distance equal to circumnavigating the globe about twelve times. It

r and under circumstances calculated to test the nerve of the most vigorous frame. He did, in the matter of preaching, what no other man ever did-he preached on an average, for

ey did, such a minister must live and preach four hundred and twenty-four years. Think of a minister preaching two sermons ea

g two sermons, and frequently five, each day, he read extensively. He read not less than two thousand two hundred volumes on all subjects, many of t

ar with them, especially when we consider the amount of time he spent in traveling a

s of the Hebrew, Greek, Latin,

fty-six pages, known as the Arminian Magazine, requiring t

he most remarkable collections of Christian literature of the times. He subsequently reread and revised the wh

im's Ecclesiastical History, with i

ent of the History of E

a Compendium of Natural Ph

collection of moral and sa

Paradise Lost, with notes. He published

but the portion on the Old Testament was rendered almost worthless by the abri

ed in his day. He compiled and published a history of Rome. He pub

tise of Justification. He abridged and publi

and published six volumes of church music. His poetical works, in connection with those of his brother Charles, are said to have amounted to not less than forty volumes. Charles composed the lar

nals, etc. It is said that Mr. Wesley's works, including translations and abridgments, amounted to more than

f these labors. In London he visits all the members, and from house to house exhorts and comforts them. For some time he visited all th

labors, his preaching, nor in his pastoral supervision of the flock of Christ has he often, if ever, been surpassed. "Few men could have traveled as much as he, had they omitted all else. Few could have preached as much without eit

mplish so much? He improved every moment

ill, by his unabated zeal and immense labors, all the young ministers of England, perhaps of Christendom. He has generally blown the Gospel trumpet and ridden twenty miles before the most of the professors w

etired at ten in the evening, never losing at any time, he says, "ten minutes by wakefulness." The first hour of each day was devoted to private devotions; then every succeeding hour and

e no more weight to his mind than ten thousand hairs to his h

declares that he "enjoyed more hours of p

-eight, and gave away two. The next year he received sixty pounds; he still lived on twenty-eight, and gave away thirty-two. The