John Wesley Preaching to the Poor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 27, 1880

John Wesley Preaching to the Poor

JOHN WESLEY always preferred the middling and lower classes to the wealthy. He said: "If I might choose, I should still, as I have done hitherto, preach the gospel to the poor." Preaching at Monktown church, a large, ruinous building, he says: "I suppose it has scarce had such a congregation during this century. Many of them were gay, genteel people, so I spoke on the first elements of the gospel; but I was still out of their depth. How hard it is to be shallow enough for a polite audience!" And the statement is good this day. The style and show which clamor for a "star" preacher would be utterly bewildered under anything like a blaze of Gospel sunshine.—Meth. Recorder.