Parish leader’s home life and mercy toward the poor
The article portrays a religious figure who daily had his household read the Scriptures and catechize his family and servants. He taught patience with weaker capacity, avoided harsh punishment, and showed great reverence to children. He opened parish relief, made daughters almoners, sent poor children to school, and distributed Bibles and large print pewter tablets, praising the inventor Metius.
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Memoir of John George Grace of God Manifested
To the Editor of the Methodist Magazine a memoir of a local preacher named John George. The letter notes his useful character and absence of journal records. It mentions his father William George, a wholesale grocer in Sevenoaks Kent, and that John was the eldest of a large family. Dated Feb 14 1810.
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