Charles Wesley, born this day in 1707.
The younger brother of John Wesley and a formative leader in the
Methodist movement. Charles Wesley (1707-1788) attended Christ College,
Oxford, England, and was a founding member of the Holy Club. He was a
missionary to Georgia, was deeply affected by the Moravian beliefs, and
had a transforming religious experience in [May 21,]1738, just a few days before
his brother John.
He was active through the remainder of his life
preaching and overseeing the growing Methodist work in England. His
great contribution to the Wesleyan movement and to the entire Christian
church was his hymns. He was a prolific writer of hymn poems and
embodied much of the theology of Methodism in these poems.
-from umc.org
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