In June of 1760, while Wesley was organizing and preaching in Ireland, two instances:
"About two we were unawares encompassed with a multitude of Papists, coming out of their mass-house. One of them, knowing me, alerted the rest who set up a hideous roar, and drew up in a battle-line. But we galloped through them..."
And then, inviting a clergyman sympathetic to the Methodists to the early morning preaching, Wesley notes, "[he] did not fail to be there, though it seemed strange to him at first to preach at 5 in the morning."
I wonder what it would be like if you could start the morning with a church service? What accounts for the difference in dedication between then and now? We barely meet for Bible study unless it is somehow "convenient."
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