Issue 2 : John Wesley: Leader of the Methodist Movement
Originally published in 1983

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Wesley set out to renew the church he loved and he was prepared to employ any appropriate material from the whole history of Christianity to do it.
Charles Yrigoyen, Jr.
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One hundred years of turmoil, change, and innovation that laid a foundation for our own day.
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John WesIey's last letter from his deathbed
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Taken from "Tales of a Wesleyana Collector" by Frederick F. Maser
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