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works in the heart of the believer. As Wesley

listened, faith was kindled in his soul. “I felt

my heart strangely warmed,” he says. “I felt I

did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation:

and an assurance was given me, that He had

taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me

from the law of sin and death.”—Ibid., page

52.

Through long years of wearisome and

comfortless striving—years of rigorous self-

denial, of reproach and humiliation—Wesley

had steadfastly adhered to his one purpose of

seeking God. Now he had found Him; and he

found that the grace which he had toiled to

win by prayers and fasts, by almsdeeds and

self-abnegation, was a gift, “without money

and without price.”

Once established in the faith of Christ, his

whole soul burned with the desire to spread