"HOW JOHN WESLEY WORKED"
"His travels were immense, amounting to about 290,000 miles, or about twelve times the circumference of the globe, making about 5,000 miles a year.
"He preached before the days of steam or electricity, twenty sermons a week, and often more. Most of these sermons were preached in the open air, and often amid showers of brickbats, rotten eggs, and personal violence calculated to test the strongest nerve. A Baptist preacher recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his pastorate. It was announced as an unusual fact that he had preached an average of three sermons a week during the fifty years. But John Wesley preached on an average, for fifty-four years, three sermons a day. The Baptist clergyman had preached during the time a little over 8,000 sermons. Mr. Wesley preached in fifty-four years, more than 44,000 sermons. This did not include numberless addresses and exhortations on a great variety of occasions.
"For many years he was editor of the 'Arminian Magazine,' a periodical of fifty-six pages—the work of one man in these times.
"He wrote and published a commentary on the whole Bible in four large volumes.
"He compiled and published a dictionary of the English language—no small undertaking.
"He wrote and published a work of four volumes on natural philosophy.
"He wrote and published a work of four volumes on ecclesiastical history.
"He wrote and published comprehensive histories of England and Rome.
"He wrote grammars of the Hebrew, Latin, Greek, French, and English languages.