THE TWO WESLEYS: On John and Charles Wesley Charles H. Spurgeon (First Published Alabaster, Passmore & Sons, 1861; Re-printed WIPF & Stock, 2014
No doubt many of you will have received the gift of a book, and on opening the package thought, ‘Oh! Not another one!’ and put it to one side unread. This was one of those because I thought it was an anthology of hymns, a biography or theological treatise, albeit written by a famous preacher.
Eventually it reappeared while I was looking for something else. My curiosity was aroused: most of the other books about the Wesleys are weighty tomes, whereas this is a 64-page pamphlet.
The book is a transcript of a lecture delivered by Rev Charles H. Spurgeon on 9 December 1861 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle Lecture Hall. The lecture lasted several hours, and Spurgeon said that he had sufficient material on John Wesley (JW) alone to be able to deliver a number of lectures. This lecture was only a ‘brief’ sketch of John and Charles Wesley (CW) as ‘companions of George Whitefield’.
