Danielle 's Reviews > The Journal of John Wesley

If you are interested in the origins on Methodism, or the works of a master evangelist, this massively abridged journal of an incredible man, John Wesley, is a great place to start.
Originally in multiple volumes, his journals spanning his adult life - covering 50 years & over 100,000 miles of field preaching on horseback, it has been condensed into this current form.

It has 2 introductions which nicely cover elements of Wesley's life that are excluded from the rest of the book; such as Wesley's influence and his family life. The latter 25% of the book is fascinating, either because of the selection of journal entries or Wesley just shared more of his observations and opinions as he got older. His faith in God is compelling and striking and inspiring, right until his very last breath.

Kindle format.
- It has a good interactive table of contents, as well as sub-tables of content.

- It has a footnote whenever a spelling or punctuation error was actually original to the journal as Wesley wrote it.
- Some of the footnotes shouldn't be there, they were just old English words not often used or with spellings that have changed since
- Some of the footnotes are not coded right so look like <=##&&

- There are lot of other distracting typos, such as an exclamation point written as 1 (such as Oh1 instead of Oh!); the letter m written as rn (such as hirn instead of him) and numerous others.

These are distracting, especially as at times there's a lot to concentrate on & it's the only thing preventing me giving it a 5 star review.