By John Pollock
Kingsway. 270 pages.
ISBN 0 85476 857 2
If you are looking for some inspiration for your walk with God during the summer break, why not read this biography of John Wesley? It is a reissue of a volume originally published by Lion back in 1989, but has lost none of its fire.
Pollock is an eloquent writer, and paints the scenes and dramas of 18th-century Britain well. We are taken from Wesley as a small boy rescued from a fire in his father's parsonage (a brand plucked from the burning), through the beginnings of the Holy Club at Oxford with his brother Charles, into the full glow of the great revival led by himself and Whitefield, and the struggles for unity in the Methodist movement of his more mature years.
