Lives of Early Methodist Preachers, abridged by Mrs Frank Stephens and published by Classics Publishing.
John Wesley required the first preachers of Methodism, when they offered themselves to him to preach, had to write an account of their early life, the time, and circumstances of their conversation, and the manner in they were led to preach the Gospel. These autobiographical accounts were all collected and published in six volumes, under the title of “The Early Methodist Preachers”, and this book is an abridgement of those books.
These pioneers of Methodism suffered every kind of hardship and persecution in their ministry, however they endured them all cheerfully. Varied as were their capabilities, their experiences were similar, in that, in every case their conversion was most definite, and immediately they felt bound to reprove sin and exhort sinners to flee from the wrath to come.
Methodism owes much to these saints of old, whose memories ought to be kept “green”, and whose live should be studied, that the fire, and enthusiasm which animated their lives and faith, my not be lost to the Church, for which they spent their lives.
