The Life of John Wesley
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When John was five and half years old, enemies of his fatherıs bold preaching and politics set the family home on fire. The house, built of dry wood, with a thatch roof, burned fiercely. Everybody rushed out of the house, but little John lay fast asleep in the attic. The staircase was engulfed in flames, so he could not escape down through the house. Showing remarkable presence of mind, John dragged a chest up to the window, and standing upon it, he showed himself to the crowd below. His father started to give his soul to God, but John Wesley escaped through the attic window. Because of this amazing brush with death, John Wesley lived the rest of his life with a feeling that God had saved him for a specific reason, and that John should work hard to fulfill Godıs call on his life. ... When finished with college, John and Charles decided to become missionaries to the young colony of Georgia in America. They went to minister to the Indian natives of the land, as well as the English colonists who had settled there.
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