This day in Methodist history

The New Room - Bristol

280 years ago today, John Wesley arrived in Bristol for the first time! He wrote: 

“In the evening I reached Bristol and met Mr Whitefield there. I could scarce reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church. In the evening (Mr Whitefield being gone) I began expounding [to the society that met in Nicholas Street on] our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, one pretty remarkable precedent of field preaching.”