Susanna Wesley
A Biography by Eliza Clarke
Book · 16 chapters · 5 hr 49 min read · Moderate
Susanna Wesley
A Biography by Eliza Clarke
Susanna Wesley · 1669–1742
About this book
Eliza Clarke’s biography of Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley, whose ordered household and patient teaching at Epworth helped shape two of the great figures of English Christianity. It follows her from birth to widowhood—her marriage, her method of training her children, the rectory fire, and the trials and steadfast faith of her later years. A portrait of quiet, persevering godliness in the midst of hardship.
THE armies of the Church Militant throughout the world were never commanded by a better general than John Wesley. The military instinct was strong in every fibre of his keen mind and wiry body, and his genius for organizing has probably had far more to do with keeping the hosts of Methodism in vigorous marching order for the last hundred and fifty years, than any…
Contents
- 1 Birth and Ancestry 10 min
- 2 Youth and Marriage 8 min
- 3 Early Married Life 10 min
- 4 Later Married Life 10 min
- 5 Teaching and Training 22 min
- 6 Trials and Troubles 22 min
- 7 Maternal Solicitude 15 min
- 8 Fire and Peril 25 min
- 9 The Home Rebuilt 18 min
- 10 Teaching in Public 18 min
- 11 The Supernatural Noises 19 min
- 12 Disappointments and Perplexities 35 min
- 13 Partings 49 min
- 14 Widowhood 25 min
- 15 Last Years 17 min
- 16 Survivors and Descendants 46 min
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