The Works of John Wesley Volume 25

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Although many of the letters of John Wesley are of value as literature--especially as crisp statements of his views or desires with little attempt at embellishment--their major importance is as a revelation of him as a man and of the people and events of his day especially those linked with the Methodist movement. They furnish us in fact with a portrait through seventy years that is both more revealing in detail and fuller in coverage than any other source.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The correspondence presented in this first of seven planned volumes of Wesley's Letters offers many intimate glimpses of the man during his early years which are available nowhere else: of his strong family ties of his leaning upon his mother for theological and spiritual as well as moral guidance of his bedazzlement by Mary Pendarves (later Mrs. Delany) of the noble experiment of the Holy Club at Oxford of the struggle between spiritual ideals and worldly reality during his brief ministry in Georgia and of the birth of the Methodist societies in London and Bristol.</span></p>