Boyhood Home Of Wesley

Deeply interestiug to all who admire the good and lovo the trne must ever te the home wbere Snsannah Wesley gave ' Buoh careítiltraiDÍng in early yeart to the "littlo .Tackey" who in af ter time was destinccl lo be so inilueutiiü in the advancerueut of trne piety. The view {dveu aboye shows tho window, just j above tho rigbt hand gatcpost and i inot hiddpn by ivy, froun which the boy is said to have boen rescned vvhen the i old rectory -was burned. It probably eorj responds to the window in the foimer j house. ïhat one, which was built "all I of timber and plaister and covered all with straw thatche," was destroyed by 1 flre Feb 9, 1709. The present ediflce i was erected in 1710 by Rev. Samuel ! Wesley, the father of Johu. None of the j cbildren was born iu the present rec' tory. Charles was the last oue born in i the old one. Kezia, the nineteenth i child, was born in the house of a neighI bor a month after the fire. Probably ! some of the old oak beams not coiisnined in the flre were used in building some part of the new rectory, as sorne scorch! ed by fire have been fonnd during recent alterations. Mauy additions and changes have been made to the house eince the Mme of theWesleys. It is etill the home of the rector of the parish ohurch of Epworth.