Introduction
In 1742, John Wesley extended his northern preaching tour to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a large, cramped city by the North Sea, founded on coal mining and the coal-trade of England’s east coast. Many areas were grindingly poor, and over time ignorance and want had so tightened their grip that violence and addiction kept areas such as Sandgate, down on the Quayside, utterly wretched. Naturally, it was to Sandgate that Wesley at once demanded to go.
In May, 1742, after a visit to Birstal, where he stayed with John Nelson, examined the little society he had formed, and preached to the people, Wesley pushed on to Newcastle. After he had rested awhile, he walked into the town. Lady Huntingdon had begged him to make some effort for the poor colliers,* and he found that there was great need. So much drunkenness, cursing, and swearing, even from the mouths of little children, he had not seen or heard before in so small a compass of time. “Surely,” he says, “this place is ripe for Him who came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”*
Full of this feeling, he went out at seven o’clock on the Sunday morning, to “Sandgate, the poorest and most contemptible part of the town,” and standing with his companion, John Taylor, at the end of a street to sing the hundredth psalm. Before the service ended 1,200 to 1,500 people had gathered round him. He chose those words, “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed.”*
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One Sunday morning in May 1742, John Wesley rose up to preach in Sandgate, down by the River Tyne. He had chosen Sandgate because it was the most wretched quarter of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the most in need of the gospel. He began with a psalm, and then preached on the Suffering Servant, from Isaiah, to over a thousand open-mouthed locals from the slums.
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One Sunday morning in May 1742, John Wesley rose up to preach in Sandgate, down by the River Tyne. He had chosen Sandgate because it was the most wretched quarter of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the most in need of the gospel. He began with a psalm, and then preached on the Suffering Servant, from Isaiah, to over a thousand open-mouthed locals from the slums.
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