On April 2, 1739, John Wesley realized that the pulpits and sanctuaries were closed to him.
Wesley.
He famously wrote, "At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be More vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation." Today we are proclaiming the glad tidings of salvation--and the other things that come with church--with comics.
If he wanted to follow God\'s call, he had to give up the stuffy trappings of a Church of England priest and an Oxford don and go to the people.
On April 2, 1739, John Wesley realized that the pulpits and sanctuaries were closed to him