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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wesley , John 1703 -1791 (search)
Wesley, John 1703-1791
Founder of the Methodist Church; born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, June 17, 1703; was educated at Oxford University, and ordained deacon in 1725.
In 1730 he and his brother Charles, with a few other students, formed a society on principles of greater austerity and methodical religious life than then prevailed in the university.
They obtained the name of Methodists, and Wesley became the leader of the association.
In 1735 the celebrated Whitefield joined the society, and he and Wesley accompanied Oglethorpe to Georgia to preach the Gospel to the Indians in 1736.
Through the arts and falsehoods of two women Charles fell into temporary disgrace.
Oglethorpe, satisfied with his explanation, sent him
John Wesley. to England as bearer of despatches to the trustees.
John remained and became pastor of the church at Savannah.
He was a strict constructionist of the rubrics of the prayer-book, for he had not then begun his labors as the founder of a new sect.