LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS JOHN WESLEY AT THE AGE OF SIXTY-THREE From a Painting by Nathaniel Hone, R.A., in the WESLEY'S BIRTHPLACE AT EPWORTH . Facing page 1 From a Painting by John Woolaston, in the National DR. JAMES Hamilton, rev. John Wesley, and rev. As seen walking in Edinburgh, 1790. THE BURNING OF NEWGATE, 1780 From a Portrait painted in 1789 by William Hamilton, JOHN WESLEY WESLEY OPENING CITY ROAD CHAPEL, NOV. I, 1778 WESLEY AND HIS PREACHERS CHAPTER I SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MAN WHI WHILE passing along Bishopsgate Street on a summer day in the first year of the twentieth century, I saw with some regret that the Wesleyan Centenary Hall and Mission House had been taken down. The building was, during its not very long life of sixty years, a notable landmark, reminding everyone who looked upon it of the mighty conquests which had been made in Britain during the Great Revival of the eighteenth century. The centenary of Methodism was worthy of being commemorated; but on June 28, 1903, will occur the bi-centenary of the birth of John Wesley himself, a man who, during his long working life, earned the distinction of being the most successful of open-air preachers, as well as a veritable apostle of the British Isles. Such an |