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| The Old Rectory - Epworth |
June 17, 1703 (Julian Calendar) / June 28, 1703 (Georgian Calendar)
From John Wesley's journal, June 28, 1775
"This being my birthday, the first day of my seventy-second year, I was considering. How is this, that I find
just the same strength as I did thirty years ago? That my sight is considerably better now and my nerves
firmer than there were then? That I have none of the infirmities of old age and have lost several I had in
my youth? The grand cause is the good pleasure of God, who doth whatsoever pleaseth him. The chief
means are: (1) My constantly rising at four, for about fifty years. (2) My generally preaching at five in the
morning, one of the most healthy exercises in the world. (3) My never travelling less, by sea or land, than
four thousand five hundred miles in a year."
From his journal, June 28, 1785
"Today I entered on my eighty-second year and found myself just as strong to labour, and as fit for any exercise of body or mind, as I was forty years ago. I do not impute this to second causes, but to the sovereign Lord of all...; I am as strong at eighty-one, as I was at twenty-one, but abundantly more healthy, being a stranger to the head-ache, tooth-ache, and other bodily disorders which attended me in my youth.
We can only say ‘The Lord reigneth!’ While we live, let us live to him!"
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