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EDITOR'S NOTE
INTRODUCTION
AN APPRECIATION OF JOHN WESLEY'S JOURNAL
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Chapter 1. Wesley as a Missionary to Georgia
Introduction
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
Chapter 2. Troubles in Georgia; Return to England; Peter Bohler; "I Felt my Heart Strangely Warmed"
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
Chapter 3. Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales; Experience with Demons
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
Chapter 4. Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield; Curious Interruptions; The Mother of the Wesleys
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
Introduction
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
Chapter 6. First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs; Wesley's Protest against Ungodliness
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
Chapter 7. Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness cWesley and Faith-healing
Introduction
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
Chapter 8. Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy; Wesley as an Editor
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
Introduction
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
Introduction
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 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
Introduction
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
Chapter 12. Wesley's Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; the Speaking Statue; Wesley's Pentecost
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
Chapter 13. Wesley in Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days; Whitefield
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
Introduction
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
Introduction
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
Introduction
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
Introduction
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
Chapter 18. On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lorg George Gordon
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
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