Wesley His Own Biographer Being Illustrations of His Character, Labours, and Achievements

WITHIN the last few years, the name of Wesley has been brought, with noteworthy prominence and frequency, before the literary world. Observers ham been found attentively studying, from. various points of view, his character and career, who have deemed the fruit of their observation of sufficient importance to be made generally known. Some of the resulting publications have been mere essays-special attempts to make the subject tell upon some particular end; and these, after the manner of such works, have exhibited portions of Wesley's large life, framed, as it were, by the hard lines of the writer's own proper loophole ofobservation; the nature of the picture being, from. the beginning, foreordained and fixed to suit the frame. Others, again, have written with a wider and more genial appreciation of the subject, and some with a declared reverence and admiring love.