The child had been nearly burned to death when he was about six years old in a fire that broke out at the Rectory of Epworth, where John and Charles Wesley and a large family were born.

In 1743 he set out from Epworth to Grimsby; but was told at the ferry he could not cross the Trent owing to the storm.

It was this man who stood by John Wesley's side when the drunken curate of Epworth refused him admission to what had been his father's pulpit, and who announced to the congregation as they left the church that in the afternoon Wesley would preach in the graveyard.

And there that same afternoon Wesley, standing upon his father's tombstone, preached to a congregation, the like of which Epworth had never seen before, the first of a series of sermons that afterwards became famous.

The Rector of Epworth had been slowly mastering his difficulties with the world.

The circumstances of the family seem to have taken a favourable turn from the year 1724, when the small living of Wroote, four miles distant, and valued at £50 a year, was added to that of Epworth.

In true consistency with the memorable season at Epworth, and her own institution of the Church in the Home, Mrs. Wesley was privileged to give her testimony in favour of lay-preaching.

To many minds this will seem to have been a question settled by the action of Mrs. Wesley at Epworth.

I used to be in the Epworth League, but we had nothing like it then.

So you might find them at Epworth League socials, Sunday school class doings, in the Sunday school orchestraviolin and b-flat cornet respectivelyand, most significant of all in its effect on all the later years, they went through Win-My-Chum week together.

"You know the Epworth League is planning for those special meetings soon'Win-My-Chum

But another antidote, both pleasant and potent, was supplied by the Epworth League of First Church.

Our church has its Sunday school, its Epworth League Chapter, and other activities.

Only trouble is, we'll never know anything about it, after we've once seen your pictures in The Epworth Herald among the recruits of the year.

Mother heard a couple of weeks ago that one of our old Epworth League girls was having a hard time of itshe's working at the Racket store, helping to support her folks.

And in the pause his mind was busy with all he knew, and all he had acquired at second hand, about the relations of colored Christians and white, and particularly about what might be thought and said if it should be announced that he was to speak at a Negro Epworth League convention.

" "Yes," said Alma, "and you know, I suppose, that the beginning of our Panama Mission was an Epworth League Institute enterprise?

"You haven't had time to read The Epworth Herald in Saint Louis.

Until lately nothing at all had been done comparable to the specialized development of young people's work in America, but now the Epworth League was beginning to be utilized and adapted to Chinese ways.

At Allahabad, said his companions of the way, an All-India Epworth League convention was to be held, and J.W. made up his mind that a League convention in India would be doubly worth attending.

There was a Sunday school in full operation, and an Epworth League Chapter, completely organized and active.

"Tell me, Mr. Farwell," she asked, "were you in the Epworth League when you were at home?"

John Wesley was born at Epworth rectory in Lincolnshire, England, in 1703.

1.05 1.00 Epworth Herald, Chi. (Y.M.C.A. .60) ....

WESLEY, CHARLES, hymn-writer, born at Epworth, educated at Eton and Oxford; was associated with his more illustrious brother in the establishment of Methodism; his hymns are highly devotional, and are to be found in all the hymnologies of the Church (1708-1788).