CHRISTIAN LEADERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

  ( CHAPTER  5 )  -  { PT.  3 } - Though paid a fair salary, he was always in financial difficulties, was once in prison for debt, and in the end, left his widow and children almost destitute. When I add to this that he was not no good terms with his parishioners, and, as poor as he was, insisted on going up to London every year to attend the very unprofitable meetings of Convocation for months at a time, the reader will probably agree with me that, like too many, he was a man for more book learning and cleverness than good sense. John Wesley's mother, Susanna, was evidently a woman of extraordinary power of mind. She was the daughter of Dr. Annesley, a man well known to readers of Puritan theology as one of the chief promoters of the six-volume Morning Exercises. He was ejected from the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, in 1662. Susannah seems to have inherited from her father the sense and strong decided judgment that distinguished her character. It was undoubtedly to the influen