INFLUENCE OF WESLEY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1922, Page 5

INFLUENCE OF WESLEY.

BRITISH PREMIER’S TRIBUTE. By Telegraph.—r Press Assn.—Copyright. London, June 20. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at a Wesleyan luncheon in connection with the restoration of Wesley’s Chapel in City Road, paid a glowing tribute to the great prophet of Methodism. He contrasted the state of the people before the revival movement with their present condition, declaring that the impression then created was still undiminiahed. Wesley was undoubtedly the greatest religious leader the Anglo-Saxon race had ever produced and the movement of which he was leader was the greatest movement in the past 250 years. It reenergised and re-vitalised every TeligMrtw community throughout the Anglo-Saxon world—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE SPIRIT OF METHODISM. London, June 21. With a view to arousing interest in the efforts to restore the Mecca of Methodism, the John Wesley’s chapel in City Road. Mr. Lloyd George made a pilgrimage there, visited the adjoining cemetery, and stood bareheaded at Wesley’s tomb. Addressing a gathering of Methodists afterwards, the Premier declared that international misunderstandings were due to the Continental failure to catch the spirit of Methodism, which sent millions of our young men to the Great War. Continental people always thought war was waged for material reasons. He declared that it was Wesley’s religious teaching that made the difference in the view of war as regarded by England and America on the one hand and the Continent on the other.