rity,
followed by her lovely train, her forbearance with faults, her
forgiveness of injuries, her pity for errors, her compassion for want.
It draws Repentance, with her holy sorrows, her pious resolutions, her
self-distrust. It attracts Faith, with her elevated eye,--Hope, with her
grasped anchor,--Beneficence, with her open hand,--Zeal, looking far and
wide to serve,--Humility, with introverted eye, looking at home. Prayer,
by quickening these graces in the heart warms them into life, fits them
for service, and dismisses each to it appropriate practice. Cordial
prayer is mental virtue; Christian virtue is spiritual action."--_The
Spirit of Prayer_ (chapters iii., viii., and xi.).

"If good we plant not, vice will fill the place,
And rankest weeds the richest soils deface.
Learn how ungoverned thoughts the mind pervert,
And to disease all nourishment convert.
Ah! happy she, whose wisdom learns to find
A healthful fancy, and a well-trained mind.
A sick man's wildest dreams less wild are found
Than the day-visions of a mind unsound.
Disordered phantasies indulged too much.
Like harpies, always taint whate'er they touch.
Fly soothing Solitude! fly vain Desire!
Fly such soft verse as fans the dang'rous fire!
Seek action; 'tis the scene which virtue loves;
The vig'rous sun not only shines, but moves.
From sickly thoughts with quick abhorrence start,
And rule the fancy if you'd rule the heart:
By active goodness, by laborious schemes,
Subdue wild visions and delusive dreams.
No earthly good a Christian's views should bound,
For ever rising should his aims be found.
Leave that fictitious good your fancy feigns,
For scenes where real bliss eternal reigns:
Look to that region of immortal joys,
Where fear disturbs not, nor possession cloys;
Beyond what Fancy forms of rosy bowers,
Or blooming chaplets of unfading flowers;
Fairer than o'er imagination drew,
Or poet's warmest visions ever knew.
Press eager onward to these blissful plains,
Where life eternal, joy perpetual reigns."

_The Search after Happiness_.

HENRY JOHNSON.

SUSANNA WESLEY.

I.

PARENTAGE AND EDUCATION.

The mother of John Wesley was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Annesley, an
eminent minister of the Church of