Once, when tempted to linger in a lovely landscape, Wesley
cried, “I believe there is an eternity; I must arise and go
hence”; and those words express the temper of his life. He lived
in the spirit of Andrew Marvel’s strong lines:
Ever at my back I hear
Time’s winged chariots hurrying near.
“And this,” Johnson complained, “is very disagreeable to a
man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I
do.”--W. H. FITCHETT, “Wesley and His Century.”
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=Ether, Doctrine of=--See MYSTERY IN RELIGION.
=Ethical Judgments=--See JUDGING FROM FACTS.