WESLEY, CHARLES
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(1708-1788), was one of the founders of the society which was the beginning of Arminian Methodism. He wrote 7000 hymns, some of great merit, many of which are now in use. From 1735 to 1736 he was in Georgia, secretary to Governor Oglethorpe.
By John Franklin Jameson
