Christian Zeal and Industry
Dr. Adam Clarke said that “the old proverb about having too many irons in the fire, was an abominable old lie. Have all in it, shovel, tongs, and poker.” Wesley said, “I am always in haste, but never in a hurry; leisure and I have long taken leave of each other.” He traveled about five thousand miles in a year; preached about three times a day, commencing at five o'clock in the morning; and his published works amounted to about two hundred volumes. Asbury traveled six thousand miles a year, and preached incessantly. Coke crossed the Atlantic eighteen times, preached, wrote, traveled, established missions, begged from door to door for them, and labored in all respects as if, like the apostles, he “would turn the world upside down.” At nearly seventy years of age he started to Christianize India.