d by interesting circumstances.

It is at this juncture that Samuel Wesley, her future husband, first
appears in the story as the friend of her soul. This young student,
seven years her senior, had himself made "proof" of Socinianism. In the
course of some literary work, he had been specially well paid for the
translation of Socinian writings from the Latin; but his strong mind
revolted from their principles, the task was resigned, and his faith
became more firmly rooted in Christ as the eternal Son of God. In this
frame of mind Mr. Wesley met Susanna Annesley, and by God's help,
succeeded in accomplishing her complete extrication from the meshes of
doctrinal error and distress.

It can be gathered from her writings, about this time, that the salutary
change proceeded not out of complaisance to the lover, but by reception
of a fulness of light from heaven. Clearness, zeal, and love mark her
_Meditations and Disquisitions on the Holy Trinity; the Godhead and
Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ; the Personality and Work of the
Holy Spirit_.

Another epoch in the girlhood of this remarkable young lady was the
engagement, somewhat previously, of her mind in the controversy between
the Church and Nonconformity. Here she had ample opportunity of being
well-informed, for her father's house was the resort of many able men on
both sides of the question. The result was that, with all due respect
toward her beloved parent, she, renounced his ecclesiastical views and
attached herself to the Established Church. "I was educated among the
Dissenters," she writes, "and because there was something remarkable in
my leaving them at so early an age, not being full thirteen, I had drawn
up an account of the whole transaction, under which I had included the
main of the controversy between them and the Established Church as far
as it had come to my knowledge." Clearly, Susanna Wesley is not to be
considered as having merely accepted the ecclesiastical situation,
turning "Churchwoman" by marriage.

III.

MARRIAGE.

Dr. Annesley's daughters were remarkable for their personal beauty, and
from all accounts it would seem that the subject of this narrative
shared this "dower." She was of average stature and slight frame.

"Some time, late in 1689 or early in 1690," Susanna Annesley was married
to Samuel Wesley. Mr. Wesley was at that time a curate at a salary of
L30 a year, and with his newly-wedded wife, took lodgings in London till