Excerpt from Charles Wesley: A Study IF ever there was a human being who disliked power, avoided prominence, and shrank from praise, it was Charles Wesley. This was the judgment passed after his death by one who knew him intimately, and it seems indeed that posterity has served him according to his wish. To the majority he remains, as he loved all his life to be, hidden in the amazing shadow of his brother. Yet the man who has been styled with reason the greatest hymn-writer who ever lived, the author of poems which will never die so long as the praises of God are sung in the English tongue, might seem to deserve more than a secondary and reflected recognition. In the great hall of Christ Church, Oxford, hung with scores of portraits of people of importance in their day and of no significance to ours, one looks in vain for any memento of Charles Wesley, Student of Christ Church. Biographies of John Wesley and studies of him have been' multiplied past counting, and most people are content to obtain their notions of Charles Wesley from scattered notices in books devoted to his brother. Yet, both his personality and his career are fully worthy of independent attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.