METHODIST

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

APRIL, 1884.

ART. L-WESLEY'S DESIGNATED SUCCESSOR." Now since the beloved disciple" fell asleep, has there is earth a saintlier man than Jean Guillaume De La

The aroma of his character and life has been Patted wherever Wesleyan Methodism has reared its standin the earth. How true it is that, whenever God has a work to perform, he has always his instruments ready to his call, and accomplish his purposes! This fact, as it clearest illustration in all the grand eras and of the history of the Church, is abundantly confirmed !*., ina i garazion and mighty movement of the great eightentary revival. There was John Wesley, whom

"The first of theological statesmen;" Charles v, die sweetest singer of Israel for nearly three thou-and hose hyuns of love and praise will go ringing down until they mingle with the millennial songs; George 4, the mightiest preacher of the last three centuries; Oke, Methodisan's first bishop and earliest missionaPools Asimy, the apostle of Methodism and evangelical my 'n Amica'; and John Fletcher, that saintly and

; and, without doubt, the greatest controversialist Fach of these wonderful men had his own work it no one of them could do the work of the other; ntial in carrying out the great designs of provi

TAH SERIES, VOL. XXXVI.

METHODIST QUARTERLY REVIEW.

APRIL, 1884.

ART. L-"WESLEY'S DESIGNATED SUCCESSOR." NEVER, since the "beloved disciple" fell asleep, has there trod this earth a saintlier man than Jean Guillaume De La Flechère. The aroma of his character and life has been breathed wherever Wesleyan Methodism has reared its standards in the earth. How true it is that, whenever God has a great work to perform, he has always his instruments ready to answer his call, and accomplish his purposes! This fact, which has its clearest illustration in all the grand eras and epochs of the history of the Church, is abundantly confirmed in the inauguration and mighty movement of the great eighteenth century revival. There was John Wesley, whom Buckle calls "The first of theological statesmen;" Charles Wesley, the sweetest singer of Israel for nearly three thousand years, whose hymns of love and praise will go ringing down ages until they mingle with the millennial songs; George Whitefield, the mightiest preacher of the last three centuries; Thomas Coke, Methodism's first bishop and earliest missionay; Francis Asbury, the apostle of Methodism and evangelical Christianity in America; and John Fletcher, that saintly and seraphic man; and, without doubt, the greatest controversialist of his age. Each of these wonderful men had his own work assigned him; no one of them could do the work of the other; but all were essential in carrying out the great designs of provi

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dence and grace.

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