CHAPTER XIX. 



Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

 To whom we for our children cry; 



The good desired and wanted most 

 Out of thy richest grace supply ! 



The sacred discipline be given 



To train and bring them up for heaven. 



Unite the pair so long disjoined, 



Knowledge and vital piety; 

 Learning and holiness combined, 



And truth and love, let all men see 

 In those whom up to thee we give, 

 Thine, wholly thine, to die and live ! 



(Charles Wesley.) 



Question. Can we have a seminary for laborers? 

 Answer. If God spare us to another Conference. 



(Complete Minutes of British Conference for 1744.) 



Question. Can we have a seminary for laborers yet? 

 Answer. Not till God gives us a proper tutor. 



(Complete Minutes for 1745.) 



ON the second day of April, in the year that forms 

 the epoch of Methodism (1739), Mr. Whitefield, 

 kneeling on a loose stone deposited in a piece of 

 giound provisionally given as a site, laid the founda- 

 tion of Kingswood School, and prayed that the gates 

 of hell might not prevail against it, to which the coll- 

 iers said a hearty amen. On the 12th of May next 

 ensuing, Mr. Wesley in Bristol laid the foundation- 

 stone of his first Methodist meeting-house, and in the 

 month of June began to build the school in Kings- 

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