This month sees a tercentenary for John Wesley who was born on June 17 1703 in Epworth, Lincolnshire.
It was on May 24 1738 that Wesley received assurance of salvation in a momentous experience of conversion. It lit the fire of evangelistic zeal in his heart which continued until his death in 1791.
Before his conversion, he had met Peter Bohler, a Moravian missionary, and had been convinced by him that salvation is by faith alone. It is interesting to read two letters John Wesley wrote just prior to his Aldersgate experience. The first is to William Law, who for 12 years had been his mentor and whose Serious Call and Christian Perfection he had previously studied avidly. The second is to an unidentified friend, who, like Wesley, was seeking salvation.
