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JOHAN HENRIK LIDÉN OCH JOHN WESLEY
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Två brev från Wesley till Lidén.
Nov. 16. 1769.1
To answer those Questions throughly, would require a Volume.
It is partly done in the little Träets. Ön the points wherein they
are defective, I will add a few words, as rny time permits.
1. There are many thousand Methodists in Great Brittain &
Ireland wch are not formed into Societies. Indeed none are hut
those (or rather a Part of those) who are under ye care of Mr.
Wesley. These at present contain a little less than Thirty
Thousand Persons.
2. The places at which there is constant Preaching, (three or
four times a week at least) are The Foundery, near Moorfields, the
French Church near the Seven Dials (at these two places there is
preaching every Morning & Evening) the French Church in
Spital-fields, the Chappel in Snowfields, Southwark, the Chappel i Wapping,
& one not far from Smithfield.
3. They have many Schools for teaching Reading, Writing &
Arithmetic, but only one for teaching the higher Parts of Learning.
This is kept in Kingswood, near Bristol, & contains about Forty
scholars. These are all Boarders, and might be abundantly möre:
but ye House will not contain them. »The Rules of Kingswood
School» give an account of the Books read & the Method pursued
therein.
4. I believe some of the best Preachers are James Morgan,
Peter Iaco, Jos. Cownl[e]y, T. Simpson, John Helton, John Pawson,
Alex.r Mather, Tho: Olivers, Sam Levick, Duncan Wright, lac.
Powell, Christopher Hopper, Dan Bumsted, Alexander M.c Nab,
William Thompson. Each of the Preachers has Iiis Food
where-ever he labours, & twelve pounds a year, for Cloaths &: other
Fjx-pences. lf he is married, he has ten pounds a year for his Wife.
This Money is raised by ye voluntary Contributions of the Societies.
It is by these likewise that the Poor are assisted, where the
Allow-ance fixt by the Laws of the Land does not suffice. Accordingly
the Stewards of the Society in London, distribute Seven or Eight
Pounds weekly among the Poor.
5. Mr. Whitefield is a Calvinist, Mess.rs Wesley are not: this
is the only material Difference between them and this has continued
1 UUB. Bland bilagor i Lidéns resedagbok, III, efter s. 622. På
brevets baksida har Lidén gjort följande anteckning: »Obs. Thetta ær tlien
ælskwærde Mr. Wesley’s Original Svar, till mig, på en hop Honom
skrif-teligen giorda Frågor, rörande Methodisterne.»
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