so many prayers, morning and evening, in public or in private; not anything superadded now and then to a careless or worldly life; but a constant ruling habit of the soul; a renewal of our minds in the image of God; a recovery of the divine likeness; a still increasing conformity of heart and life to the pattern of our most holy Redeemer.”1 These words of John Wesley, written in 1734, embody and express the aim of the great revival of last century, and it cannot but be of interest to trace its development
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