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Chapter I: A Race of Preachers The Wesley Ancestry - The First John Westley - Samuel Wesley, Poet and Preacher - Susanna Annesley - Piety and Culture

Chapter II: The Epworth Household Epworth in Lincolnshire - The Wonderful Mother - Pecuniary Difficulties - "A Brand Plucked from the Burning"

Chapter III: The Gownboy of the Charterhouse A Friendly Duke - The Charterhouse School - John's School Days - The Epworth Ghost - The Brothers at Westminster

A biography of John Wesley Chapter IV: The Crisis at Oxford A Freshman at Christ Church - No Religious Friends - Letters from Home - Choosing a Profession - The First Convert - Fellow of Lincoln -...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter V: The Holy Club Charles Wesley Begins It - "Methodists" - John Wesley Its Father - "Men of One Book" - Works of Mercy and Help - The Oxford Methodists - Whitefield...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter VI: To America and Back The Missionary Spirit - Oglethorpe's Philanthropic Colony - John Wesley, Missioner to Georgia - The High Churchman at Savannah - Moravian...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter VII: The New Birth Whitefield's Revival Fire - Peter Bohler's Influence - Charles Wesley's Happy Day - John Wesley's Heart "Strangely Warmed" - A Spiritual...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter VIII: Revival Preaching "Jesus, the Sinner's Friend, Proclaim" - "By Grace Are Ye Saved" - A Happy New Year - Whitefield Calls Wesley Out of Doors - Shouts in the...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter IX: Society and Class No Solitary Religion - The First Society - A Layman's Notion - An Unspeakably Useful Institution - The General Rules - Quarterly Tickets -...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter X: Lay Helpers Wesley's "Irregularities" - "Soul-saving Laymen" - Cennick, Humphreys, Maxfield - "He is as Surely Called of God to Preach as You Are" - John Nelson...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter XI: Two Sorts of Methodists Whitefield's Calvinism - Arminians - "The Queen of the Methodists" - Trevecca College - Lady Huntington's Connection - Time Heals the...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter XII: Wesley Faces Mobs The Wednesbury Riots - Before the Magistrate - A Noble Champion - "Always Look a Mob in the Face" - Stoned at the Market Cross - Causes of the...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter XIII: In Conference with the Preachers An Ecclesiastical Statesman - The First Conference - Notable Conferences - One-man Power - "Christian Democracy" - Early...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter XIV: Doctrinal Wars Antinomianism - The Minutes of 1770 - Fletcher's Checks - The Hills, Toplady, and Berridge - Wordy Wars

A biography of John Wesley Chapter XV: Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Island Visits -"The Dairyman's Daughter" - Irish and Irish-American Methodism - Shamefully Treated - The Palatines - Wesley in...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter XVI: The Work Beyond the Sea Methodism in 1769 - An American Offshoot - Shall Wesley Go? - Political Pamphlets - Wesley to Lord North - A Calm Address - A Methodist...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter XVII: Traveler, Preacher, and Philanthropist Wesley's Travels - His Preaching Power - The Last University Sermon - A Pioneer of Benevolence - Temperance - Sunday...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter XVIII: Setting His House in Order "Thou art the Man!" - Methodist Clergy - The Swiss Recruit - Fletcher's Proposals - The Deed of Declaration - The Ordinations - The...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter XIV: The Passing of John Wesley An Active Octogenarian - Welcomed in Ireland - Triumphal Progresses - "I Do no Lack for Labor" - Last Open-air Sermon - The Last Text...

A biography of John Wesley Chapter XX: The True John Wesley John Wesley's Appearance - His Habits - His Temperment - His Tact - His Love of Children - His Unhappy Matrimonial Experience - His Wit and...