Memorials of the Wesley Family

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Excerpt from Memorials of the Wesley Family: Including Biographical and Historical Sketches of All the Members of the Family for Two Hundred and Fifty Years Some ten years after Mr. Moore's death two of the three of his executors had gone to join him in the better land, when the certified copies of the Wesley papers were given to the writer, and the originals were deposited with the third of Mr. Moore's executors. AS both Mr. Wesley and Mr. Moore designed that the papers should be published, it was long a question in what form they should be printed. For some time one or more of those papers appeared occasionally in two serial publications, and it was one of those papers which seems to have originated a work recently written by Dr. Rigg, under the title of The Living Wesley. Such Of the papers as related to the Founder Of Methodism were placed at the disposal of the Rev. Luke Tyer man, and they form not the least interesting portion of that gentleman's valuable biography Of John Wesley. The late Rev. John Kirk had the perusal Of some Of the papers, though only once is this alluded to, and that in the second edition of the Mother of the Wesleys. How best to comply with Mr. Wesley's desire for the publica tion of his papers was a problem both his own and Mr. Moore's executors desired to solve. In the mean time numerous other letters and documents relating to the Wesleys had been found and copied, until, at the suggestion of many friends, the plan Which seemed most likely to include all the new facts gathered together, if not to embrace all the documents in detail, was the re-writing of the lives of all the members of the Epworth family of Wesley, making each as complete as possible, and bringing the work down to include all the descendants who were known to belong to the family. This has now been done, and the result is before the reader. There are still many Wesley letters un published which the plan Of the present work does not embrace. Should life and health be continued, some other opportunity may be Offered to the writer for their use. The Epworth Wesleys lived in times of such sore trouble, and they had to struggle so hardly and continuously for a bare subsistence, that they had no time, supposing they had the opportunity, to inquire into the past history Of the family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.