From the Welsh church
Pilgrim, faint and tempest-beaten,
Lift thy gaze, behold and know
Christ the Lamb, our Mediator,
Robed in vestments trailing low;
Faithfulness his golden girdle;
Pilgrim, faint and tempest-beaten,
Lift thy gaze, behold and know
Christ the Lamb, our Mediator,
Robed in vestments trailing low;
Faithfulness his golden girdle;
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Then I picked up the cup of wine. “This is my blood,” I said. Before I could go any further, my little blond-headed boy disgustedly interrupted: “Blood?!?!? I’m not drinking blood!” “It’s a rep-re-sen-ta-tion,” a 5-year-old girl replied, taking special care with her pronunciation. “It’s not really blood,” I said. “It’s wine.” “It’s a rep-re-sen-ta-tion,” the little girl said again. “It’s OK. You don’t have to drink it,” I told the boy. “I’m not drinking blood!” he said again.
[John] Wesley’s friend and fellow preacher George Whitefield had begun preaching in the open air to anyone who would stop to listen, and he appealed to Wesley for assistance. Preaching out of doors was not an idea Wesley took to immediately. “I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which he [Whitefield] set me an example this Sunday,” Wesley wrote on March 29, 1739.
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