WESLEY CELEBRATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 79, 4 April 1938, Page 7

WESLEY CELEBRATIONS

On Wesley Day, May 24, Methodists all over the world will commemorate the anniversary of John Wesley.* says "The Times." The Wesley Day" celebrations are founded on the. follt Wing .experience recorded in John.We liley's Journal and dated May 24, 1738: VIn the evening I went very unkvillingly to a society in Aldersgate Stfeet, where one was reading Luther^s toreface to the . Epistle to the Rorn|ins. About a quarter before nine, while ft he was describing the change which: (Bod works in the heart through faith % in Christ, I felt my heart; strangfely warmed. I felt I did trust in Chrtst, Christ alone, for salvation; and an surance was given me that He hp& taken away my sins, even mine, \ai Bd saved me from the law of sin ai id death. • , I

At a quarter before nine o'clock, ifti Britain, in America, Canada, Austral! India, South Africa, New Zealand, Cc; pilon, West Indies, Germany, Sweden and elsewhere, this extract from Johti v Wesley's Journal will be read at spef cial, commemorative services

Even in Tonga, in the Friendly Islands, Queen Seloukie has Announced that the Methodists there, and practically every citizen is registered as a Methodist, will hold their special service.