Another John Wesley
HE WORLD IS MY PARISH" presentéd a John Wesley of whose existence I had not the slightest suspicion. Harried by doubt and failing in human relationships through vucillation and inconsistencies, he was certainly made to step from his saintly niche down into the moftal throng. Perhaps too much so, for whilé those who look only at the radiant white of righteousness may forget the burning which producés the light, a preoccupation with the heart of the furnace itself can only show us a wretched creature fit for the pathologist. This BBC programthe, broadcast from 3YC, concentrated so fiércély of thé John Wesley upon whom Had been visited the sins of the parents that one was left wofdering how such a man could possibly Have Had siich a wide and beneficial effect upon thé life and thotight of his nation. are, after all, thousands of men burdened with as many complexes who do not burn so brightly, and surely the search for the man John Wesley must be a search for the whole man. In such a than the éssential part lies not in his faults but in his effort to respond to the God in whom he believed,
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 770, 23 April 1954, Page 10
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202Another John Wesley New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 770, 23 April 1954, Page 10
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