and lived on earth a life that should be a
beautiful copy for men and women and boys and girls to follow; and if
the people would believe on Him and follow His example, God would
forgive them, and they should go back to Him, their Father, and to
heaven their home.

All this Mr. Wesley explained to the people, and told them if they
believed this and loved and followed the Saviour that died for them,
they would always be happy, and God would give them His own peace, the
peace He has promised to those that love Him.

One wonders how the clergymen could disapprove of such preaching, and
why they should shut Mr. Wesley out of their pulpit, for if they did not
preach this same Gospel they certainly ought to have done.

However, Mr. Wesley got much larger congregations outside the churches
than they ever got inside, and wherever he went hundreds of people
believed the wonderful story he told them, and became true followers of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Strange things happened at his services; some of
the people were so overjoyed at what they heard they could not help
shouting "Hurrah!" and "Hallelujah!" and they poked each other in the
ribs, as much as to say: "Isn't that good?"

Then, when Mr. Wesley told them how Jesus Christ suffered, and how
cruelly Judas betrayed Him, and that He allowed all this in order that
we might be saved, the people would burst into tears, and you could hear
their sobs all over the great congregation. All sorts of people came to
the services, thieves and gamblers, poor people and rich people, and all
heard the same glad tidings of salvation.

Mr. Wesley did not remain at Bristol; several times he went up to
London, and wherever he went crowds came to hear him. One day when he
was preaching at Newgate, a prison in London, and was telling the people
what would become of them if they did not give up their wicked ways, a
woman whom he had known for many years as a very bad character, burst
into tears and begged Mr. Wesley to pray for her. Many of the other
prisoners did the same, and numbers believed in Jesus Christ as their
Saviour, and became Christian men and we men.

It was just wonderful; but it is sad to think that if these people had
only heard the Gospel before, they might never have been the wicked men
and women they were. As soon as ever they heard, they believed.

All the magazines and newspapers that were published were full of the
doings of the Methodists. They were still called all sor