This week in Christian history: Billy Sunday retires, Charles Wesley, Magdeburg massacre

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Sunday, May 19, 2019

Charles Wesley has deep spiritual experience – May 21, 1738

This week marks the anniversary of when Charles Wesley, a famous hymn-writer and one of the early leaders of the Methodist movement, had a deep spiritual experience.

While much has been made about the “Aldersgate Experience” that his older brother John Wesley had a few days later, Charles himself experienced a similar religious awakening on Pentecost Sunday.

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“I now found myself at peace with God, and rejoiced in hope of loving Christ,” wrote Charles in his journal that day.

“I saw that by faith I stood; by the continual support of faith, which kept me from falling, though of myself I am ever sinking into sin. I went to bed still sensible of my own weakness, (I humbly hope to be more and more so,) yet confident of Christ’s protection."