Rev. John Wesley.
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As this distinguished divine died before most
Of his followers now on the stage of action were
born, We supposed it would DO gratifying TO many
Of them TO read obituary notice. published fifty
years;ago; which not only records his decease,
but contains few particulars of his long and
full life. 1t is republished from old Now York
paper, dated 1871:


DIED.-On the 2d Of March, at his house, in
the City Roads, (England) in the sS,h year Of
his age, the Rev. John Wesley, A. NJ. late tel
low Of Loncoln College. Oxford. He was the
original founder OF the people called Methodlsis,
which large and numerous society owed its es-
tablshmens to this extraordinary man, when a,
college, and has attained its present consequence
from his unremitied vigilance, his unexamped
labors, and unceasing attention TO his original
plan.--This extraordinary man was born in the
year l7O5, at Epworth, village in Lincolnshire
Of which place his father, Samuel Wesley, was
Rector. At \ proper age, John was sent to
Christ Church College, Oxford. About l725 he
was elected Fellow Of Lincoln College. In 1929
he joined a society Of fellow students in private
devotion, and from this his spiritual career may
be dated. In 1875 he embarked for Georgia. 10
order 10 convert the Indians; but retuncd to Eng
and, in 1897, where Mr.. Whitefield had commen-
csd the work Of Reformation In 1873 he visited
Count Zinzendroff, at Hernhuth. in Germany.
the Chief of the Moravians. We find him in
England again in the following year. and on the
I'd OF April he preached his first field sermon al
iiiS'o'' "o"' "hich ttHie MS diSclPes Ha'e CON
tinued TO increase. He remained the rest of his
days in this Kingdom, travelling through every
part of II, and establishing congregations in
England, Scotland, and ireland Ia 1850 he
married lady, who died in l7Sl,-by her he
had no children.


Mr.. Weslev's income was prodigious, not less
than fl5,OOO year,-but out of that he appro
priated no moro to his use than was suffi
cient to supply the necessaries Of life the money
went to build Chaples, and pay his preachers
throughout the Kingdom.