 | Henry Montagu Butler - Great Britain - 1909 - 346 pages
...have been crushed together. When the child was carried to the house where his parents were, the father cried out, ' Come neighbours, let us kneel down :...eight children ; let the house go ; I am rich enough.' " This providential deliverance Wesley remembered through life with the deepest gratitude. In reference... | |
 | J. Martin Rohde - Homiletical illustrations - 1911 - 364 pages
...chamber to the ground. "Come, neighbors," said the father, as he received his son, "let us kneel down and give thanks to God. He has given me all my eight children ; let the house go, I am rich enough." A few moments more and the founder of Methodism would have been lost to the world.- — Abel Stevens,... | |
 | John Wilbur Chapman - Christian life - 1917 - 314 pages
...the falling roof behind him. "Come neighbors," cried the father, when his child was brought to him, "let us kneel down ! Let us give thanks to God! He has given mo all my eight children. Let the house go. I am rich enough." So far as I know, no one knows the names... | |
 | Alonzo Bernard Webber - Anecdotes - 1920 - 232 pages
...underneath the window and another climbed on his shoulders, and the boy was saved. Then the father said: "Let us kneel down; let us give thanks to God. He...eight children. Let the house go, I am rich enough." THE SENTINEL The morning is the gate of day, But ere you enter there See that you set, to guard it... | |
 | Archie Lowell Ryan, George Herbert Betts - Church membership - 1920 - 132 pages
...window just as the roof fell in. "Come, neighbors," cried the father, when his child was brought to him, "let us kneel down! Let us give thanks to God! He...eight children. Let the house go. I am rich enough." The fire and the prayer naturally made a deep impression upon the imagination of the young child. He... | |
 | 1882
...another. And thus he was taken out. A moment after the roof fell in. When the child was rescued the father cried out, " Come, neighbours, let us kneel down ;...eight children. Let the house go ; I am rich enough." JOHN WESLEY always remembered this deliverance with the deepest gratitude. Under one of the portraits... | |
 | William R. White - Religion - 1986 - 148 pages
...before the building collapsed. Samuel Wesley called to all who were watching the fire, "Come, neighbors, let us kneel down. Let us give thanks to God. He has given me all my children. Let the house go. I am rich enough." As time passed John Wesley believed he had been saved... | |
 | Stephen Tomkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 214 pages
...saved, but Samuel called his neighbours to come and kneel with him in prayer again to give thanks. 'He has given me all my eight children: let the house go, I am rich enough.' This early experience of salvation had a lasting impact on John Wesley's life, quite apart from allowing... | |
 | Theology - 1821 - 684 pages
...carried out to the in. n , r where his parents were, the father cried out, "Come, neighbours, let as kneel down : let us give thanks to God ! he has given...eight children : let the house go, I am rich enough." John Wesley remembered this providential deliverance through life with the deepest gratitude. In reference... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1864 - 582 pages
...the father's words, when John, the last of his children, was brought to him in a neighbour's house: ' Come, neighbours, let us kneel down ; let us give...thanks to God. He has given me all my eight children : I am rich enough.' Well done, Christian heart of oak, firm und true, stern and strong, but sound... | |
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Come, neighbours, let us kneel down ! Let us give thanks to God ! He has given me all my eight children : let the house go ; I am rich enough... 
