Chapter I : A Race of Preachers
The Wesley Ancestry - The First John Westley - Samuel Wesley,
Poet and Preacher - Susanna Annesley - Piety and Culture
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Chapter II : The Epworth Household
Epworth in Lincolnshire - The Wonderful Mother - Pecuniary
Difficulties - "A Brand Plucked from the Burning"
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Chapter III : The Gownboy of the Charterhouse
A Friendly Duke - The Charterhouse School - John's School
Days - The Epworth Ghost - The Brothers at Westminster
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Chapter IV : The Crisis at Oxford
A Freshman at Christ Church - No Religious Friends - Letters
from Home - Choosing a Profession - The First Convert -
Fellow of Lincoln - Curate at Wroote
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Chapter V : The Holy Club
Charles Wesley Begins It - "Methodists" - John
Wesley Its Father - "Men of One Book" - Works
of Mercy and Help - The Oxford Methodists - Whitefield -
Death of the Epworth Rector - Reserved for a Better Appointment
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Chapter VI : To America and Back
The Missionary Spirit - Oglethorpe's Philanthropic Colony
- John Wesley, Missioner to Georgia - The High Churchman
at Savannah - Moravian Influences - The First Methodist
Hymnal - An Unhappy Ending
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Chapter VII : The New Birth
Whitefield's Revival Fire - Peter Bohler's Influence - Charles
Wesley's Happy Day - John Wesley's Heart "Strangely
Warmed" - A Spiritual Revolution
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Chapter VIII : Revival Preaching
"Jesus, the Sinner's Friend, Proclaim" - "By
Grace Are Ye Saved" - A Happy New Year - Whitefield
Calls Wesley Out of Doors - Shouts in the Camp - The Old
Room at Bristol - The Foundry for Gospel Artillery
- Wesley's Chapel in City Road - Wesley's House
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Chapter IX : Society and Class
No Solitary Religion - The First Society - A Layman's
Notion - An Unspeakably Useful Institution - The General
Rules - Quarterly Tickets - Mother and Son - "Jack
May Excommunicate the Church" - Braving the Bishops
- " I Look upon All the World as My Parish" -
Preaching from His Father's Gravestone - Death of Susanna
Wesley
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Chapter X : Lay Helpers
Wesley's "Irregularities" - "Soul-saving
Laymen" - Cennick, Humphreys, Maxfield - "He is
as Surely Called of God to Preach as You Are" - John
Nelson, of Birstal - The Extraordinary Call of Women - Mary
Bosanquet and Others
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Chapter XI : Two Sorts of Methodists
Whitefield's Calvinism - Arminians - "The Queen of
the Methodists" - Trevecca College - Lady Huntington's
Connection - Time Heals the Wounds - Whitefield's Candle
Burns to the Socket
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Chapter XII : Wesley Faces Mobs
The Wednesbury Riots - Before the Magistrate - A Noble Champion
- "Always Look a Mob in the Face" - Stoned at
the Market Cross - Causes of the Disturbance - Quarter Times
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Chapter XIII : In Conference with
the Preachers
An Ecclesiastical Statesman - The First Conference - Notable
Conferences - One-man Power - "Christian Democracy"
- Early Discipline - Circuits
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Chapter XIV : Doctrinal Wars
Antinomianism - The Minutes of 1770 - Fletcher's Checks
- The Hills, Toplady, and Berridge - Wordy Wars
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| Chapter XV : Ireland, Scotland, and
Wales
Island Visits -"The Dairyman's Daughter" - Irish
and Irish-American Methodism - Shamefully Treated - The
Palatines - Wesley in Scotland - A Dash into Wales
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Chapter XVI : The Work Beyond the
Sea
Methodism in 1769 - An American Offshoot - Shall Wesley
Go? - Political Pamphlets - Wesley to Lord North - A Calm
Address - A Methodist Episcopal Church for America
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Chapter XVII : Traveler, Preacher,
and Philanthropist
Wesley's Travels - His Preaching Power - The Last University
Sermon - A Pioneer of Benevolence - Temperance - Sunday
Schools - The Press - Hymns and Tunes
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Chapter XVIII : Setting His
House in Order
"Thou art the Man!" - Methodist Clergy - The Swiss
Recruit - Fletcher's Proposals - The Deed of Declaration
- The Ordinations - The Rubicon Crossed
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Chapter XIX : The Passing of John
Wesley
An Active Octogenarian - Welcomed in Ireland - Triumphal
Progresses - "I Do no Lack for Labor" - Last Open-air
Sermon - The Last Text - A Last Letter - "The
Best of All is, God is with Us!"
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Chapter XX : The True John Wesley
John Wesley's Appearance - His Habits - His Temperment -
His Tact - His Love of Children - His Unhappy Matrimonial
Experience - His Wit and Humor - His Freedom from Selfish
Ambition - Asbury's Tribute
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