"He preached before the days of steam or electricity, twenty sermons a week, and often more. Most of these sermons were preached in the open air, and often amid showers of brickbats, rotten eggs, and personal violence calculated to test the strongest nerve. A Baptist preacher recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his pastorate. It was announced as an unusual fact that he had preached an average of three sermons a week during the fifty years. But John Wesley preached on an average, for fifty-four years, three sermons a day. The Baptist clergyman had preached during the time a little over 8,000 sermons. Mr. Wesley preached in fifty-four years, more than 44,000 sermons. This did not include numberless addresses and exhortations on a great variety of occasions. "For many years he was editor of the 'Arminian Magazine,' a periodical of fifty-six pages--the work of one man in these times. "He wrote and published a commentary on the whole Bible in four large volumes. "He compiled and published a dictionary of the English language--no small undertaking. "He wrote and published a work of four volumes on natural philosophy. "He wrote and published a work of four volumes on ecclesiastical history. "He wrote and published comprehensive histories of England and Rome. "He wrote grammars of the Hebrew, Latin, Greek, French, and English languages. "He wrote, abridged, revised, and published a library of fifty volumes known as the 'Christian Library,' and some time after he re-read, revised, corrected, and published the whole in thirty large volumes. This library contains one of the richest collections found in the English language. "He wrote a good-sized work on electricity. "He prepared and published for the common people three works on medicine. "He published six volumes of church music. His poetical works, in connection with his brother Charles, amounted to not less than forty volumes. Charles wrote most of them, but they passed under the keen revision of John, without which we doubt if Charles Wesley's hymns would have been what they are--the most beautiful and soul-inspiring to be found in the English language. "In addition to these multiplied publications, we have seven large volumes, including sermons, journals, letters and controversial papers known as 'Wesley's Works.' It is claimed that Mr. Wesley's works, including abridgments and translations, amounted to at least two hundred volumes. It is difficult to understand how a man could have found time to accomplish so much literary labor while perpetually on the wing.