Susanna Annesley Wesley led a prayer meeting from her kitchen during her minister spouse Samuel’s absence, a very unusual thing for a woman to do in 1711. He received letters of complaint from his curate (associate) and exchanged letters with Susanna on the subject. She gave him several excellent reasons for doing this audacious ministry and shut the conversation down with —
”If you do, after all, think fit to dissolve this assembly, do not tell me that you desire me to do it, for that will not satisfy my conscience; but send me your positive command, in such full and express terms as may absolve me from all guilt and punishment for neglecting this opportunity of doing good, when you and I shall appear before the great and awful tribunal of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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