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| | Charles Wesley English Hymn Writer - Christian Biography Resources (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-6.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Charles Wesley: One of the founders of Methodism; born at Epworth (23 miles northwest of Lincoln), [England] December 18, 1708, O. (December 29, N. S.); died in London March 29, 1788. |
 | | He was educated at Westminster School, London, under his brother Samuel, 1716; at St. Peter's College, Westminster, London, 1721; and at Christ Church, Oxford, 1726, where, with his brother John and one or two others, he received the nickname of "Methodist" in consequence of the method they employed in prayer and daily life. |
 | | John Wesley's expression, "his least praise was his talent for poetry," is unmeaning: whatever his other gifts and graces, it is because he was "the poet of Methodism" and one of the most gifted and voluminous of English hymn-writers that his fame and influence live. |
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