Charles
Wesley,
the son of the rector of Epworth, Lincolnshire, was born in 1707.
He studied at Christ College, Oxford, and
became a member of a religious group that included his brother, John
Wesley and George Whitefield. The
group became became known as the Holy Club
or the Oxford Methodists.
In 1735 Charles and John
Wesley became missionaries in Georgia, America. They returned
to England five years later and for the rest of his life Charles became
the able lieutenant to his more charismatic brother. Charles wrote
over 5,500 hymns, including the popular Jesu,
Lover of My Soul and Hark, the
Herald Angels Sing. Charles Wesley
died in 1788.
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