The Journal of John Wesley
Free
- First published
- 1735
- Category
- Biography
- Length
- 153,511 words · about 10 hours
- Chapters
- 382
About this book
Wesley's Journal — a firsthand record of the Methodist movement
Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library; in the public domain.
Contents
- EDITOR'S NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- AN APPRECIATION OF JOHN WESLEY'S JOURNAL
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 15. 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 16. 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 17. 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- WESLEY'S LAST HOURS
