Charles Wesley's Unnecessary Childhood

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Charles Wesley is one of the nineteen children of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and one of the ten that survived childhood. God used Charles Wesley to make hymns so that His love could to this dark world. Charles Wesley was born in December 18, 1707 in Epworth, England. Charles Wesley was a premature child, his first two months of life he laid there covered in wool. At nine years old Charles was sent to Winchester School where he became a King’s Scholar in 1721, and in the year 1725 He became captain of the school. Susanna Wesley was a big part of Charles Wesley’s life as Poetry Foundation points out “ Susanna Wesley provided her many children with their early education and her absent husband’s parishioners with spiritual guidance.” Susanna

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