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David Baines-Griffiths

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II SON OF THE MANSE On occasion the state of English politics could find their reflection in the parsonage at Epworth. The man of the house had favoured the accession of William and Mary, and at the domestic altar he was wont to pray for the rulers. The rector's wife happened to hold an entirely different opinion about these imported regalities, but being a dutiful spouse she pursued an industrious silence. About a year before William of Orange died the loyalist rector of Epworth became aware of the fact that' the mistress of the manse never said Amen to the prayers for the King's Majesty. A pointed question procured a plain answer. Susannah was a Jacobite. She did not believe that William was lawful King of England. The secret was out. Samuel Wesley vowed he would not live with Susannah until she was ready to say Amen to the prayer for King William. He rode off in a rage, and this curious rectory was minus a rector for toward twelve months. Then the death of the King conveniently allowed a reconciliation, inasmuch as neither husband nor wife had scruples about praying for Queen Anne. Scientific pedagogy never had the opportunity to enlighten Susannah Wesley about the rearing of children. She herself had been well reared, and she needed no Froebel to tell her to live with her children. Indeed, we might ask, what else could she do ? For she gave birth to no fewer than nineteen, of whom six came to mature years. What with daily schooling of the infants, tending them in smallpox and other sicknesses, the rector's wife hardly lived in a doll's house. Fortunately she had brought to her duties not only a controlled spirit but a mind on which practical forms of education as well as the liberalizing influence of Greek and Latin had made an impression. A glimpse of Susannah's m...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wesley the Anglican. To get started finding Wesley the Anglican, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 24

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0217653731

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II SON OF THE MANSE On occasion the state of English politics could find their reflection in the parsonage at Epworth. The man of the house had favoured the accession of William and Mary, and at the domestic altar he was wont to pray for the rulers. The rector's wife happened to hold an entirely different opinion about these imported regalities, but being a dutiful spouse she pursued an industrious silence. About a year before William of Orange died the loyalist rector of Epworth became aware of the fact that' the mistress of the manse never said Amen to the prayers for the King's Majesty. A pointed question procured a plain answer. Susannah was a Jacobite. She did not believe that William was lawful King of England. The secret was out. Samuel Wesley vowed he would not live with Susannah until she was ready to say Amen to the prayer for King William. He rode off in a rage, and this curious rectory was minus a rector for toward twelve months. Then the death of the King conveniently allowed a reconciliation, inasmuch as neither husband nor wife had scruples about praying for Queen Anne. Scientific pedagogy never had the opportunity to enlighten Susannah Wesley about the rearing of children. She herself had been well reared, and she needed no Froebel to tell her to live with her children. Indeed, we might ask, what else could she do ? For she gave birth to no fewer than nineteen, of whom six came to mature years. What with daily schooling of the infants, tending them in smallpox and other sicknesses, the rector's wife hardly lived in a doll's house. Fortunately she had brought to her duties not only a controlled spirit but a mind on which practical forms of education as well as the liberalizing influence of Greek and Latin had made an impression. A glimpse of Susannah's m...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wesley the Anglican. To get started finding Wesley the Anglican, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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