Charles Wesley, called a "sweet singer of Israel," was born five years after his brother John. The two brothers were close and worked together on many religious endeavors. They also had some significant disagreements about the direction the Methodist movement should go and concerning Charles' interference with John's personal life when he wanted to marry.
Methodist historian J. B. Wakeley said in Anecdotes of the Wesleys (1869) that Charles' "characteristics were liveliness of disposition, peculiar frankness, sterling integrity, love of simplicity, sparkling wit and humor. With his wit he silenced infidels, quelled mobs, confounded magistrates, priests, and bishops.... He could face mobs without fear, and sing sweetly in the midst of storms. Denounced as a vagabond, arrested for treason, shut out of the churches, pelted with stones, beaten with clubs, with a spirit of unbending heroism he exclaimed, 'None of these things move me!'" (pp. 323-324)
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