Wesley's Designated Successor - The Life, Letters and Literary Labors of the Rev. John William Fletcher #245180

"Jean Guillaume De La Flechere," Robert Southey, "was a man of rare talents, and rarer virtue. No age or country has ever produced a man of more fervent piety, or more perfect charity; no Church has ever possessed a more apostolic minister. He was a man of whom Methodism may well be proud, as the most able of its defenders; and whom the Church of England may hold in remembrance, as one of the most pious and excellent of her sons."<br><br>"Fletcher was a saint," said Isaac Taylor, "as unearthly a being as could tread the earth at all."<br><br>"Fletcher," remarked Robert Hall, "is a seraph who burns with the ardour of divine love. Spurning the fetters of mortality, he almost habitually seems to have anticipated the rapture of the beatific vision."<br><br>Dr. Dixon, one of the greatest of Methodist preachers, observed, "I conceive Fletcher to be the most holy man who has been upon earth since the apostolic age."<br><br>No apology is needed for publishing the life of such a man, unless it can be shown that a life worthy of him is already in existence.