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 REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON. D. D. 
 
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FROM EPWORTH TO LONDON 
 
 WITH 
 
 JOHN WESLEY, 
 
 BEING 
 
 FIFTY PHOTO-FNGRAVINGS 
 
 OK THIi: 
 
 SACRED PLACES OF METHODISM, 
 
 WITH DESCRIPTIONS FROM NOTES WRITTEN ESPECIALLY 
 FOR THESE VIEWS BY 
 
 GEORGE JOHN STEVENSON, M. A,, of London, Enoland, 
 
 AND COMPILED F'OR THIS WORK BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER WHO MADE THE NEGATIVES "ON THE SPOT,'' 
 
 G. W. EDMONDSON. 
 
 CLEVELAND, OHIO: 
 
 THE CLEVELAND PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. 
 
DEDICATION 
 
 TO THAT KINDLY, HKLPFUL, LOVIXG, CHRISTIAN MAN, 
 
 GEORGE JOHN STEVENSON, 
 
 TO WHOM SO MANY 
 
 AMERICAN METHODISTS VISITING LONDON 
 
 ARE INDEBTED FOR UNREQUITED KINDNESSES, 
 
 THIS BOOK 
 
 IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 How little we know in what way the words we utter 
 ma)- affect those hearinc^ them was exemplified in the 
 case of the person making" the following remark in the pres- 
 ence of the illustrator of this work. The words were to this 
 effect : " That the interest in the life and writings of the 
 Founder of Methodism was waning, and that something 
 should be done to awaken a desire amongst Methodists to 
 know more of John Wesley." 
 
 Nothing, it seemed, could more effectually achieve this 
 than to present to that people photographs and data, taken 
 
and collected " on the spot," of places made sacred to all 
 Methodists by their association with the Wesleys. It was 
 resolved to carry out the idea. The trip to Eno^land was 
 undertaken ; the negatives were made, sometimes under try- 
 ing circumstances and against unreasonable opposition; the 
 information and data were kindly furnished by the then best 
 historian of Methodism living, and this book is the result. 
 If it shall prove of value as an educator to the Methodists of 
 America, the labor and expense will not have been in vain. 
 
 G. W. E. 
 
THl: \ ILLAGH OF WINTERBOURNE- WHITCHURCH. 
 
THE VILLAGE OF WINTERBOURNE-WHITCHURCH. 
 
 THIS is a Parish and one-street village in the County of 
 Dorset, in the South of England. It forms the fourth 
 portion of a Rural Deanery, is five miles from Bland- 
 ford, and is built on the River Winterbourne. 
 
 The Minister of this Parish from 1651-62 was the Rev. 
 John Wesley, M. A., father of the Rev. Samuel Wesley, 
 Rector of Epworth, and grandfather of John and Charles 
 Wesley, founders of Methodism. 
 
 Samuel Wesley was born in this village in the Summer 
 of 1662, just before his father was expelled from the living 
 in August of that year by the Act of Uniformity. His birth 
 is recorded in the Church Register and the date of his bap- 
 tism. There is a small Wesle)an Chapel in the village. 
 
THE OLD CHURCH AT WINTERBOURNE 
 
THE OLD CHURCH AT WINTERBOURNE. 
 
 HERE we have a near view of the quaint old English 
 Country Church at Winterbourne - Whitchurch, the 
 square Tower of which may be discerned in the far 
 distance of the view oi the village in preceding picture. The 
 Church will seat all the inhabitants, 427, parents and chil- 
 dren. The Clerg)man's salary is only $545.00 per annum. 
 There is a beautifully decorated Font in this Church, dated 
 1450; the Parish is a very old one, and in the chancel are 
 mural tablets to some of the former Vicars. The Church 
 Register dates from 1579. 
 
THH NORTH-EAST VIEW OF EPWORTH CHURCH 
 
THE NORTH-EAST VIEW OF EPWORTH CHURCH. 
 
 EPWORTH is a remarkable old town, very ancient, built 
 in the midst of the Fen district of Lincolnshire, on a 
 slightly rising ground, and is the chief place on what 
 is known as the Isle of Axholme, being surrounded with 
 rivers, and formerly was in the midst of overflowing waters, 
 so that Samuel Wesley had occasionally to visit villages 
 near by in a boat, taking his horse with him. 
 
 Leaving the old country Inn, with its sanded floor of 
 stone flagging, comfortable beds and glorious " roast beef of 
 old England," the visitor soon approaches a small avenue 
 of trees leading up a slight eminence, on which stands 
 Epworth Church, visible for miles around. 
 
TOMB OF SAMUEL WESLEY AS IT NOW APPEARS. 
 
TOMB OF SAMUEL WESLEY AS IT NOW APPEARS. 
 
 ONLY the covering slab remains of the original Tomb, 
 which was restored in 1872, at the sole cost of Mrs. 
 Lucy Reade, then living in the High Street, Ep- 
 worth. 
 
ANCIENT FONT— HPWORTH CHURCH. 
 
ANCIENT FONT— EPWORTH CHURCH. 
 
 THIS is an old Saxon Font, which is said to have come 
 from a still older Church. It stands under the Tower 
 at the west end, where is also the chief entrance door, 
 which is visible in the picture. Ordinarily a modern Gothic 
 cover adorns this Font, but it was kindly replaced for us by 
 the old cover actually in use when Samuel Wesley was 
 Rector 
 
EP WORTH RFCTORY. 
 
EPWORTH RECTORY. 
 
 THE "Rectory House" at Epworth, as built at the cost 
 of Samuel Wesley in 1710, and with recent addition 
 of wing on left. None of the members of the Wesley 
 family were born in that edifice. Charles, the poet, was the 
 last born in the old Rectory, in December, 1 707, — it was 
 burnt down in 1 709 — and Kezia, the nineteenth child, was 
 born a month after the fire, in the house of a neighbor. 
 
 The original Rectory is described as a building " all of 
 timber and plaister and covered all with straw thatche ; " — 
 so that it became ready fuel to the fire that on February 
 9th, 1709, nearly deprived the world of a John Wesley. 
 
SIDE VIEW OF EPWORTH RECTORY. 
 
SIDE VIEW OF EPWORTH RECTORY. 
 
 MADE interesting from the fact that it shows the loca- 
 tion of the window from which John Wesley was 
 rescued at the age of six years from the burning 
 Rectory. 
 
 The window is located in the end of the building, just 
 above and to the right of the top of the right-hand gate- 
 post, nearly hidden with ivy, and could be reached by one 
 man standing on another man's back, as is represented in 
 the celebrated engraving of the " Escape from the Fire," 
 though that engraving is incorrect, as it is impossible to see 
 the Church from the Rectory. 
 
THE HAUNTED CHAMBER— EPWORTH RECTORY. 
 
THE HAUNTED CHAMBER— EPWORTH RECTORY. 
 
 4 6 JEFFREY'S ROOM," or the Haunted Chamber, still 
 yl bears the name given to it by Emelia Wesley, after 
 an old man who died there. This is the room 
 where in 1716 those strange noises were heard which have 
 made the Haunted Chamber known wherever the Wesley 
 family is known. Wesley mentions the occurrences in his 
 Journal. 
 
 The floor of this attic is made of gypsum, and reverber- 
 ates in a remarkable way through the house. Below this 
 was the Nursery, the scene of the Ghost's earliest and most 
 remarkable exploits. The light entering the room comes 
 from a dormer window easily accessible from the outside, 
 and it is now believed that, whoever or whatever made the 
 noises that so disturbed the Wesley family, their cause was 
 introduced through this window. 
 
MARKET CROSS— EPWORTH. 
 
MARKET CROSS— EPWORTH. 
 
 IN bidding "good-bye" to Epworth, we pass this Market 
 Cross, made famous from the fact that from these worn 
 steps surrounding it John Wesley often preached to 
 two thousand or more people, as recorded in his Journal. 
 
THE CHARTERHOUSE— WESLEY'S SCHOOL. 
 
THE CHARTERHOUSE— WESLEY'S SCHOOL. 
 
 ON entering Charterhouse Square, London, we face this 
 portion of the venerable pile of buildings known as 
 " The Charterhouse." Five centuries ago it was a 
 famous Monastery, founded by a company of Monks from 
 Chartreuse, in France. One "Bruno" founded there this 
 first order of " Carthusians," which name still clings to the 
 pupils of the Charterhouse School. The Monastery was 
 suppressed by Henry YHI and the property sold to one of 
 his favorites, the Duke of Norfolk, in 1565, for $12,500. 
 He offended the King and was beheaded in 1572. Queen 
 Elizabeth spent some days there ; so did King James I, and 
 he there knighted eighty gentlemen. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE— ENTRANCE TO MASTER'S COURT. 
 
 THE Porter's Lodge has been passed, a little nook 
 hidden in the large archway seen in preceding view, 
 and credentials having proved satisfactory, the visitor 
 is now in the first court in front of the archway under the 
 residence of the Master of Charterhouse, which forms the 
 entrance to " Master's Court," seen in the next picture. 
 
THE CHARTERHOUSE— IN THE A\ASTER'S COURT. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE— IN THE MASTER'S COURT, 
 
 OR DINING HALL QUADRANGLE. 
 
 WE are facing the three large windows that light the 
 Dining Hall and the entrance door over which are 
 the Royal Arms of Great Britain, whilst in the 
 sun-dial above the upper windows is the Coat of Arms of 
 the founder of the Charterhouse. 
 
 In 1611, Thomas Sutton bought this property from 
 Lord Howard, Earl of Suffolk, for sixty-five thousand dollars, 
 and obtained a charter to there found a Hospital for eighty 
 gentlemen of decayed fortunes, and a Free School for forty 
 poor boys. One of the boys educated there in later years 
 was John Wesley, who endured many hardships during his 
 school days, such as having all his meat snatched from him 
 at dinner by stronger and larger boys. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE— THH DINING HALL. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE— THE DINING HALL 
 
 HERE are the cloths laid preparatory to the daily dinner 
 of the forty pensioners, at 3 P. M. 
 The dark oak-paneled walls and massive fire-place, 
 with its brass "andirons" or "dogs," easily carry one back 
 to the times of Knight Errantry. 
 
 Over the fire-place is the Coat of Arms of the founder, 
 and higher still a Gallery, leading to a wider one at the end 
 of Hall, in which concerts are occasionally given to cheer 
 and entertain the aged pensioners. 
 
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CHARTERHOUSE— GALLERY IN DINING HALL. 
 
 THIS is a near view (valuable to the architect as giving 
 detail) of the Gallery mentioned on preceding page, 
 showing the curious square Elizabethan finials, with 
 their quaint carving and the construction of the roof. 
 
 In this Dining Hall, the novelist Thackeray and the 
 caricaturist John Leech, whose satirical sketches of the 
 follies of society in " Punch " made him so celebrated, sat 
 at the Annual Dinner to the Carthusians, a few months 
 before they died, chatting of old times with the old gentle- 
 men pensioners. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE— FIRE-PLACE IN THE "FOUNDATION BOYS'" DINING HALL. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE— FIRE-PLACE, 
 
 IN THE " FOUNDATION BOVs' " DINING HALL. 
 
 THE old solid tables and heavy seats, like those by the 
 fire-place in the picture, are still kept in this room, 
 though in a neglected condition of piled up lumber. 
 It was in this room that Wesley ate what was left to 
 him of the meals served here to the " Foundation Boys," 
 as they were called. 
 
 A door to the right corner opens into the Great Dining 
 Hall. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE— THE CLOISTERS. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE— THE CLOISTERS. 
 
 IN these Cloisters the " Foundation Boys " used to play 
 in wet weather. 
 
 The flat roof above the arched groinings forms an open 
 promenade, commanding a view of all the play-ground and 
 of the mansions of the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk. The 
 blank wall opposite to the open arches was formerly pierced 
 with doors leading to cold, dreary cells, where the Carthusian 
 Monks were shut in. There was one small opening, through 
 which their scanty meals were passed. The plan of these 
 openings would be represented by the letter V laid flat. 
 The janitor who brought the food would reach down one 
 arm of the V from the outside of the wall, leaving the food 
 at the point ; the poor Monk could then reach it from his 
 side the wall, and neither of them could see the other. 
 
 It was hard fare for those religious ascetics. John 
 Wesley tells us that even in his day he seldom rose from 
 the table without having appetite for more food. 
 
CHARTKRHOUSE— PART OF PLAY- GROUND. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE— PART OF PLAY-GROUND. 
 
 HERE, on the left, we see a portion of the grass play- 
 ground, with the wide gravel walk around it, over 
 which John Wesley, by the advice of his father, used 
 to run three times every morning to get an appetite for his 
 bread and milk breakfast. 
 
 The buildings to the left formed the residence of the 
 Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, over which is seen the 
 Church Tower. The higher buildings to the right were 
 known as "The Palace," in the stately rooms of which 
 Queen Elizabeth and King James held state. 
 
 The exterior of the Cloisters, with its flat roof mentioned 
 in preceding description, is noticed on the right. At the end 
 of these Cloisters was the school-room where \\ esley studied. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE-A CORNER IN THE CHAPEL. 
 
CHARTERHOUSE— A CORNER IN THE CHAPEL. 
 
 THE greater portion of the Tomb of Thomas Sutton, 
 the founder of Charterhouse, is seen enclosed in iron 
 rails. Of him we will not speak, although he may 
 be called the " Savior of England " at the time of the 
 Spanish Armada. 
 
 In front of this monument are four pews. In each of 
 these pews ten of the " F"oundation Boys," Wesley amongst 
 them, used to sit every morning and evening at daily 
 prayers. 
 
CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE, OXFORD. 
 
CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE, OXFORD. 
 
 ONE week after his seventeenth birthday, John Wesley 
 entered Oxford University in June, 1720, his under- 
 graduate days, Hke those of his brothers Samuel 
 and Charles, being spent at Christ Church, Cardinal 
 Wolsey's College. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one, William Badcock describes 
 Wesley as " the very sensible and acute collegian, baffling 
 every man by the subtleties of his logic, and laughing at 
 them for being so easily routed — a young fellow of the 
 finest classical taste, and of the most liberal and manly 
 sentiments." 
 
THE WESLEY VINE— LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD. 
 
THE WESLEY VINE— LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD. 
 
 ON March 17, 1726, Wesley was unanimously elected 
 to a L^ellowship in Lincoln College, Oxford, and 
 the window over the archway is that of his Study. 
 The celebrated Wesley Vine, said to have been planted 
 by him whilst residing in these rooms, is seen on either 
 side the archway, and must be now over one hundred and 
 sixty years old. 
 
 In February, 1751, Wesley was obliged to resign his 
 Fellowship, having married a widow named Vazeille. 
 
 College Fellowships can only be held by unmarried 
 Clergymen. 
 
THE CASTLE. OXFORD. 
 
THE CASTLE, OXFORD. 
 
 IN 1730, a Mr. Morgan visited a condemned man in 
 Oxford Jail and spoke to one of the debtors. What 
 
 he saw and heard convinced him that much good might 
 be done there. He proposed to institute systematic work 
 at that place, and John and Charles Wesley agreed to visit 
 this Castle at Oxford once or twice a week, if the Min- 
 ister of the Parish did not object. Wesley's father, writing 
 to him on the subject, says : " Go on, then, in God's 
 name, in the path to which your Saviour has chrected you, 
 and that track wherein your father has trod before you ! 
 For when I was an undergraduate at Oxford, I visited those 
 in the Castle there, and reflect on it with great satisfaction 
 to this day. Walk as prudently as you can, though not 
 fearfully, and my heart and my prayers are with you." 
 
 The first person to whom John Wesley preached 
 salvation by faith was a prisoner under sentence of death 
 in this Castle. 
 
WINDSOR CASTLE AND TOWN. 
 
WINDSOR CASTLE AND TOWN. 
 
 IT is one of the many interesting and historic places 
 where John Wesley labored. The Castle has been the 
 residence ot the Kings and Queens of England for 
 centuries. The Round Tower is so high that thirteen 
 counties can be seen from its top. In the crypt of St. 
 George's Chapel are laid the bodies of the Sovereigns of 
 England for nearly two centuries past. 
 
NEWGATE PRISON. 
 
NEWGATE PRISON. 
 
 IN the distance is seen the Dome of St. Paul's Cathe- 
 dral, London. The opening to the right is the Old 
 
 Bailey, where the Judges sit to try the prisoners ; 
 that to the left is Newgate Street. The residence of the 
 Governor of Newgate Prison is on the extreme right of 
 the picture ; next is seen the felon's door, out of w^hich 
 condemned murderers came to be hungr the scaffold beingr 
 erected in front of that door, and eight thousand to ten 
 thousand people usually were present at each execution. 
 For ten years past the hanging has been done within the 
 Prison, which is now about to be moved to a site outside 
 London. 
 
 In an entry in his Journal, John Wesley says : " While 
 I was preaching at Newgate, a woman broke out in strong 
 cries and tears ; great drops of sweat ran down her face 
 and all her bones shook, but both soul and body were 
 healed in a moment." 
 
CHURCH OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. 
 
CHURCH OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. 
 
 THE oldest Church in London is connected with our 
 subject by two interesting Hnks. It is part of the 
 old Priory of St. Bartholomew, and a portion of the 
 buildings had been turned into a Chapel, of which, in 1753, 
 John Wesle)' gained possession and opened to his followers. 
 This was the Church where, at the request of the 
 Pastor, Mr. Bateman, John Wesley preached a charity 
 sermon to a crowd so great that he had difficulty in getting 
 into the building. Thus, after an exclusion of eight years, 
 the Established Church of England once more opens her 
 doors to John Wesley. 
 
THE AA\BLiLATORY~ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. 
 
THE AMBULATORY— ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. 
 
 Tins is a promenade surrounding the Apse, wliich termi- 
 nates the east end of the Church, where stands the 
 Communion Table. 
 Between the two massive Norman columns on the right 
 may be seen the Altar Chairs. The Tomb seen in the 
 extreme distance is that of Sir Walter Mildmay, who was 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer to Queen Elizabeth. It is a 
 fine specimen of the Renaissance style of architecture, and 
 is beautifully decorated with colored marbles. 
 
INTERIOR OF ALL- HALLOWS CHURCH, LONDON. 
 
INTERIOR OF ALL-HALLOWS CHURCH, LONDON. 
 
 IN Lombard Street, the visitor finds this, one of the smallest 
 Churches in London, though elaborately ornamented 
 with costly wood carving. Here, John Wesley preached 
 his first extempore sermon. The facts are these, and they are 
 printed and framed in the Vestry of the Church. \W'sle\', in 
 early life, went to this Church to hear an eminent Divine, Dr. 
 Heylin, preach, who failed to attend. Mr. Wesley, being in 
 gown and bands, seated in a pew, was called into the Vestry 
 and asked by the Church Wardens to conduct the service. 
 Mr. Wesley was in much mental confusion and agitation, not 
 having brought a sermon with him. A woman who stood by, 
 noticing his concern, on being told the cause, put her hand 
 on his shoulder and said : " Is that all ? Cannot you trust 
 God for a sermon ? " This question had such an effect upon 
 him that he ascended the pulpit, preached extempore with 
 great freedom to himself and acceptance to the people, and 
 never after did he take a written sermon into the pulpit. 
 
THK FIRST METHODIST CHAPEL EVER BUILT. 
 
THE FIRST METHODIST CHAPEL EVER BUILT. 
 
 IN Broadmeade, Bristol, Mr. Wesley erected this, the first 
 Methodist place of worship e\'er built, in the year 1739. 
 
 It was a source of much trouble to Mr. Wesley, owing 
 to his want of experience in drawing legal deeds. 
 
 It has been used b)' the Calvanistic Methodists for many 
 years, and the Bible on the Pulpit is printed in Welsh. In 
 this picture we see the F"irst Methodist Communion Table. 
 
 Rooms for the residence of the Preacher were built at 
 the top of the Chapel, the only light and air coming from 
 a window which opened into the upper part of the Chapel. 
 Those rooms are now used for Class Rooms. 
 
WESLEY'S CLASS ROOM— BRISTOL. 
 
WESLEY'S CLASS ROOiM-BRISTOL 
 
 ARE the rooms spoken of on last page, and here Wes- 
 ley used to meet his Western Preachers. It was 
 and is used as a Class Room, and smaller ones lead 
 from it. The dark space at end of cupboard is the door- 
 way into the private sitting and bed-rooms, which were 
 occupied by Wesley, who passed much time there. It is 
 said they are in exactly the sanie condition as when Wesley 
 left them. 
 
THE OLD FOUNDRY. 
 
THE OLD FOUNDRY. 
 
 THE first Methodist Chapel in London opened in 1739, 
 the same year as the Bristol Chapel ; the latter was 
 built on purpose, whilst the Foundry had been for 
 many years a ruin. It was repaired and fitted up for preach- 
 ing, at a cost of $3,500, and used by John and Charles 
 Wesley as the home of London Methodism for forty years. 
 The portion to the right was a Da)' School ; the yard 
 to the left had the stable for Wesley's horse, and carriage 
 when he had one. 
 
 The building on the top was Wesley's residence, in 
 which his mother died in 1742. 
 
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BUNHILL FIELD'S CEMETERY— LONDON. 
 
 THIS view is taken from the parlor window in Wesley's 
 house, in City Road. It began to be a place of 
 interment when the great plague was raging in Lon- 
 don in 1665, when scores of the plague- stricken people 
 were buried in heaps, without coffins, every night. 
 
 The graves of John Bunyan and Susanna Wesley are 
 near the left center of the view ; in the right center a thin, 
 white Obelisk is seen, which marks the grave of Daniel 
 Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, and near it is the grave 
 of Dr. Isaac Watts, the hymn writer. 
 
SUSANNA WESLEY'S GRAVE. 
 
SUSANNA WESLEY'S GRAVE. 
 
 SHE was buried in Bunhill Field's Cemetery, in July, 
 1742, about thirty-six years before City Road Chapel 
 was built. The original stone having been worn out, 
 and the inscription obliterated, a new stone was erected in 
 1828, and an entirely new inscription placed on it. The 
 walk has been made over the grave, and the foot-stone, 
 bearing the letters S. \Y. on its surface, has been placed 
 at the base of the head-stone. 
 
 John Wesley preached his mother's funeral sermon 
 standing on the corner of the base of the large tomb to the 
 left, where a new stone has been inserted. 
 
THE GWENNAP PIT— CORNWALL 
 
IHE GWENNAP PIT— CORNWALL. 
 
 CENTURIES ago, it is said, this was once a tin mine, 
 and all the metal having been worked out, the mouth 
 of the mine was left unfilled. John Wesley found 
 it to be a suitable place in which to gather a multitude of 
 people to preach to them the Gospel, and he so utilized it 
 many times. In his Journal, Wesley records having preached 
 to 20,000 people there. 
 
 In 1870, a number of Methodists in the locality (there 
 are only about a dozen houses within a mile of the place), 
 having obtained proper permission, reduced the circumference 
 and shape of the pit into the present grassy amphitheatre. 
 
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THE AUDIENCE IN THE GWENNAP PIT. 
 
 THE Amphitheatre will seat 10,000 people, and many 
 can stand on the tiat plateau around. Every Whit- 
 Monday a great preaching convention is held here, 
 and people come from miles around to attend. 
 
 This picture was taken whilst the audience was listen- 
 ing to the preaching on Whit-Monday, 1887, and the picture 
 of the empty pit, after the people had dispersed the same 
 day. 
 
IN WESLEY ROCK CHAPEL-CORNWALL. 
 
!N WESLEY ROCK CHAPEL— CORNWALL 
 
 THIS anything--but-beautirvil Pulpit is built on a solid 
 rock, on which Wesley used to stand when preachini^r 
 in Penzance, Cornwall, and this fact has given the 
 odd name to the Chapel. The Pulpit builr over the Rock, 
 and the Chapel o\er the Pulpit — nothing beautiful archi- 
 tecturally, but the thought was beautiful which planned that, 
 from the rock where Wesley had preached the Gospel to 
 the people ol Penzance they should hear it forever, though 
 other feet might stand there and other voices proclaim 
 the " Good News." 
 
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GENERAL VIEW OF CITY ROAD CHAPEL PROPERTY. 
 
 ON the right is John Wesley's House. The white 
 ObeHsk in front is the monument in memory of his 
 mother, though she is buried in Bunhill Field's 
 Cemetery, opposite. 
 
 City Road Chapel is in the center back-ground, and 
 the house to the left is the Parsonage where the second 
 Pastor lives, the Wesley House being the residence of the 
 Superintendent of the Circuit. 
 
CITY ROAD CHAPEL— LONDON. 
 
CITY ROAD CHAPEL— LONDON. 
 
 A NEARER view of the Chapel proper. The Portico 
 in front was built in 1815. In the left corner is the 
 entrance to the Morning Chapel. The Benson block 
 of buildings, seen in the extreme left, was erected in 1880, 
 and named after the Rev. Joseph Benson, who lived and 
 died in the building which stood there before the Ecumen- 
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CITY ROAD CHAPEL— GENERAL INTERIOR VIEW. 
 
 THIS view is taken from the South Aisle of City Road 
 Chapel, looking towards the east end, where are the 
 two stained glass Memorial Windows, and the blank 
 space then waiting for, but now filled with, the window in 
 memory of Bishop Simpson. There is the ancient Pulpit 
 in which Wesley preached. 
 
 This may truly be called the " Mecca " of Methodism, 
 for people from all parts of the world come here yearly to 
 visit the Church, Pulpit and Tomb of John Wesley. 
 
WESLEY'S PULPIT— CITY ROAD CHAPEL. 
 
WESLEY'S PULPIT— CITY ROAD CHAPEL. 
 
 THE Chair in front of the Pulpit is now used when 
 there is a second Minister taking part in the service, 
 but formerly as the seat of the " Clerk," who said 
 "Amen " at the close of each Prayer. 
 
 Looking past the Pulpit, you see the marble busts of 
 Punsheon and Gervaise Smith, and of Dr. Robert Newton 
 in the extreme lett. 
 
ClT'i' ROAD CHAPEL— RIGHT OF COMMUNION TABLE. 
 
CITY ROAD CHAPEL— RIGHT OF COMMUNION TABLE. 
 
 THE walls of the Chapel are covered in many places 
 with mural tablets, in memory of Methodist Heroes. 
 Here, at the south side of the Arch over the Apse 
 containing the Communion Table, are three important ones. 
 The upper tablet, under the window, is to the memory of 
 Charles Wesley ; the center one to the Rev. Dr. Coke (the 
 "little Bishop," as he was called), and the lower one to the 
 Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke, the Commentator. 
 
 The pillar is to the memory of Rev. Richard Watson, 
 and the bust is of Sir Francis Lycett, the founder of the 
 Metropolitan Chapel Building Fund. 
 
CITY ROAD CHAPEL— LEFT OF COMMUNION TABLE. 
 
CITY ROAD CHAPEL-LEFT OF COMMUNION TABLE. 
 
 IN the north corner will be seen a portion of the Ahar 
 Screen with the Lord's Prayer. The upper Tablet is 
 to the memory of the Rev. John Wesley ; the one in 
 the center to the Rev. John Fletcher, and the lower one to 
 the Rev. Joseph Benson. The polished granite column 
 belongs to the architecture of the Chapel, but its base has 
 been utilized to carry an inscription to the memory of Dr. 
 S. D. Waddy. The pillar with bust of Rev. Jabez Bunting, 
 and still to the left of that, the bust of the Rev. Frederick 
 J. Jobson, D. D. 
 
IN WESLEY'S HOUSE— THE OLD CLOCK. 
 
IN WESLEY'S HOUSE— THE OLD CLOCK. 
 
 AT the top of the stairs in Mr. Wesley's house stands 
 this old Clock, in the same old corner where it has 
 stood for the last hundred and ten years, and with 
 its alarm awakened Mr. Wesley every morning he was at 
 home, at 4 o'clock, so that he might be in time for the 5 
 o'clock preaching in the Morning Chapel. 
 
 The Clock is still in working order, excepting that it 
 sometimes strikes fifty instead of twelve. 
 
IN WESLi:VS HOUSE— FIRE-PLACF IN PARLOR. 
 
IN WESLEY'S HOUSE— FIRE-PLACE IN PARLOR. 
 
 THE room opening to the left of the Clock was the 
 general living room of the Preachers who resided 
 with Mr. Wesley. At the end farthest from the 
 door is the Fire-place, as it was in the time when it wel- 
 comed Wesley with its glowing warmth. 
 
 The general arrangements are, of course, modern, but 
 the F'ire-place and Fender are intact. 
 
IN WESLEY'S HOUSE-BOOK-CASE, ETC. 
 
IN WESLEY'S HOUSE— BOOK-CASE, ETC 
 
 TURNING your back to the fire in Wesley's Parlor, 
 you will see at the opposite end of the room Wes- 
 ley's Book-case, in front of which were grouped, for 
 the purpose of this picture, his Study Chair as newly covered 
 for use at the Ecumenical Conference, his Study Table, 
 and the celebrated Tea-pot. 
 
IN WESLEY'S HOUSE-HIS STUDY. 
 
IN WESLEY'S HOUSE— HIS STUDY. 
 
 OPENING out of his bedroom, in which he died in 
 1 79 1, is John Wesley's tiny Study and retiring 
 room, his table with old-fashioned brass handles to 
 the drawers, and the cupboard where now is preserved what 
 is left of the famous Tea-pot. 
 
 Through the doorway a glimpse is caught of the room 
 that was his bedroom, and the Arm Chair. 
 
 This little Study is that in which the Rev. Richard 
 Watson wrote his Theological Institute more than half a 
 century since. 
 
IN WESLEY'S HOUSE— THE TEA-POT. 
 
IN WESLEY'S HOUSE— THE TEA-POT. 
 
 JOSIAH WEDGEWOOD, the famous Staffordshire 
 potter, made and presented this Tea-pot to Mr. 
 W^esley. It holds four quarts and was none too large 
 for the use to which it was put. 
 
 Very early on Sunday mornings his Preachers used to 
 meet in the five o'clock Prayer Meeting Room and took tea 
 together. When the meal was ready, the " Grace Before 
 Meat" side was turned towards the guests as a sign to 
 begin, and when the repast was concluded, the other side. 
 "Grace After Meat," was turned to face the Preachers. 
 They had prayer together and words of advice from Wesley, 
 and then separated, carrying with them the holy intluence 
 of that early meeting to their different Charges. 
 
TOMBS OF JOHN WESLEY AND ADAM CLARICE. 
 
TOMBS OF JOHN WESLEY AND ADAM CLARKE. 
 
 IN the Graveyard in the rear of City Road Chapel, John 
 Wesley is buried. He was standing one day watching 
 
 some workmen repairing the Chapel when he remarked 
 to a lady by his side : "I should like to be buried just 
 here amongst my workers; " and his wish has been gratified, 
 for he is interred in the midst of about five thousand of 
 his Preachers and parishioners. 
 
 The low grave by the side of the Wesley Monument 
 is that of the Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke, the Commentator. 
 In Wesley's tomb, ten bodies are buried. In the other, 
 Dr. and Mrs. Clarke and their son, 
 
ENTRANCE TO WESTMINSTER SCHOOL— LONDON. 
 
ENTRANCE TO WESTMINSTER SCHOOL— LONDON. 
 
 HERE, the Rev. Samuel Wesley was for many years 
 one ot the Ushers, and here he prepared his brother 
 Charles to become a student at Christ's Church, 
 Oxford. Charles Wesley left Westminster for Oxford in his 
 twentieth year, 1726, and Samuel became head master at 
 Tiverton School in 1732. He had been in office as a Tutor 
 there for nearly twenty years, and near that place resided 
 his grandmother, the widow of the Rev. John Wesley, of 
 Winterbourne- Whitchurch. 
 
 The high Tower in the background is the Victoria 
 Tower of the Houses of Parliament. 
 
CHARLES WESLEY'S TOMB-LOKDON. 
 
CHARLES WESLEY'S TOMB— LONDON. 
 
 IN the old Mary-le-bone Church-yard is the Tomb of 
 Charles \\ esley, whose residence was in this Parish, 
 
 only a walk of five minutes from the Church. He 
 was buried the first week in April, 1788, at the ag-e of 
 eighty years. In the same grave :.re the bodies of Mrs. 
 Wesley and their two sons, Charles and Samuel. This 
 Monument was erected forty years ago, at the cost of the 
 Methodist Book Concern. 
 
 To the right stands Bishop Harris, nearest the Tomb ; 
 and next to him Dr. DePew ; on the left side of the 
 Monument is George John Stevenson, to whom this work 
 is dedicated. 
 
THE "DEATH MASK" OF JOHN WESLEY. 
 
THE "DEATH MASK" OF JOHN WESLEY. 
 
 THIS Mask was cast from Mr. W'esley's face, between 
 three or four hours after death. The Masks of 
 Lincohi and Napoleon have the eyes closed ; in this 
 they are open. This, the original Mask, was kept in 
 Wesley's House till the Rev. Benjamin Rhodes was the 
 resident Minister there, when the City Road Stewards pre- 
 sented it to him to preserve. 
 
 It remained in his family till 1866, when his only 
 surviving daughter was in needy circumstances, and she 
 found a helping hand in Mr. G. J. Stevenson, who has 
 since preserved the Mask, which is the only genuine likeness 
 of John Wesley.