Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 18 · The Wesleys and Methodist Song · Page 34 in print
John Wesley
John Wesley was the translator in the family. More than thirty translations from German, French and Spanish, mostly German, were his alone, not Charles’s.
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Aldersgate
London street of the May 24, 1738 meeting where John’s heart was ‘strangely warmed’. Site of John’s 1738 conversion experience.
Charles-Town
Colonial Charleston, South Carolina, where the 1737 collection was printed. Imprint place of John’s 1737 collection.
Grub Street Project: A collection of psalms (opens a new tab)
Charterhouse
London school where John Wesley was educated.
German
Main source language of John Wesley’s hymn translations.
Herrnhut
Moravian settlement in Saxony that Wesley visited in 1738.
John Wesley
John Wesley, the Methodist preacher, hymn editor and translator.
Lewis Timothy
Charles-Town printer of John Wesley’s 1737 Collection of Psalms and Hymns.
Grub Street Project: A collection of psalms (opens a new tab)
Luther
Martin Luther, whose preface to Romans was being read at Aldersgate.
Moravians
German Pietist travellers and teachers who influenced John Wesley.
Peter Bohler
Moravian teacher John met in London in 1738.
Romans
Epistle to the Romans, whose preface by Luther was being read at Aldersgate.
Simmonds
The ship that carried John Wesley to Georgia. Ship of the voyage on which he met the Moravians.
Sophia Hopkey
Young woman John Wesley courted in Georgia. A Georgia acquaintance central to his mission.
William Law
Author of Christian Perfection, read by John Wesley. A formative influence on his reading.
Wroot
Lincolnshire parish where John served as his father’s curate.
Sources
- John WesleyHymnary.org
- A collection of psalms and hymns.Grub Street Project (ESTC data)
- John Wesley and the Moravians: 1735-1741Wesley Scholar
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900: Wesley, JohnDictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), via Wikisource