Archives for March 2021

John Wesley’s Ministry Begins

Wesley peremptorily refused to leave Oxford, and the reason he assigned was very characteristic.Continuing Wesley Begins Methodism,our selection

This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Wesley’s Youth.IntroductionNext to the founders of the world's great

Today's installment concludes 1848 German Revolutions,our selection from The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany

Metternich had hoped to retire quietly to his own villa, but it had been already burned in the insurrection; and he soon found that it was safer to

Count Frontenac stood before him. Since his recall, he had lived at court, needy and no longer in favor; but he had influential friends, and an

The struggle on the streets was raging fiercely. Archduke Albert had found to his cost that the insurrection was not, as he had supposed, the work of

Representatives as they were of the privileged classes, they had little sympathy with the movement that was going on in Vienna.Continuing 1848

The appeal produced its effect; and the crowd grew dense as the students marched into the narrow Herren Gasse.Continuing 1848 German

The expression of desire for reform now became much more general.Continuing 1848 German Revolutions,our selection from The Revolutionary Movement