 | Charles Atmore - 1871 - 318 pages
...He was so extremely tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that he says himself, " I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin,^ if it had not been done in a Church ! " What less than Almighty power could conquer prejudices like these ! Mr. Wesley had strenuously... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1871 - 602 pages
...hot water in America, by his dogged adherence to ritualistic observances ; and he said of himself, " I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin if it had not been done in a church."* But both the parents of the Wesley family were immediately descended from Puritans. The respective... | |
 | Christianity - 1871 - 608 pages
...hot water in America, by his dogged adherence to ritualistic observances ; and he said of himself, " I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin if it had not been done in a church."* But both the parents of the Wesley family were immediately descended from Puritans. The respective... | |
 | 1872 - 566 pages
...scarce reconcile myself at first to this strange way, having " been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating " to decency and...almost a sin if it had not been done in a church." He soon gave up this prejudice, for he thought that by field-preaching he could do most good, and his... | |
 | William Peirce - 1873 - 842 pages
...fields, of which Mr. Whitefiold had net him the example ; ' having been.' says he, ' till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order,...almost a sin if it had not been done in a church.' " [Whitehead's Life of Wesley. vol. ii., p. 101.] Mr We.u " In the same year, (i>., 1789,) he was denied... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1873 - 632 pages
...the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday, having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order,...almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." The next evening, Whitefield being gone, he began expounding to a small " Society " the Sermon on the... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1874 - 924 pages
...been all my life till very lately so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that 1 should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin if it had not been done in a church." He soon found means to justify himself to himself. He was an ordained priest, and as such, he writes,... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Clergy - 1877 - 218 pages
...the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday ; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order,...have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if had it not been done in a church." Such were the feelings of a man who in after life became one of... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1878 - 734 pages
...journal, his first repugnance to it, ' having,' as he says, ' been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order,...almost a sin if it had not been done in a church.' Charles Wesley, on this as on most other occasions, was even more strongly conservative. The two brothers... | |
 | Abel Stevens - Methodism - 1878 - 444 pages
...the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday, having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order,...that I should have thought the saving of souls almost ;i sin, if it had not been done in a church." The next evening. Whitefield being gone, he began expounding... | |
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I could scarce reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday ; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have... 
