The Impact of Society's Attitudes Toward Aging on the Lives of Older Adults in America

For four decades, John Wesley's indomitable faith complemented his spiritual strength, physical energy, and extraordinary sense for organization. During the last fourteen months of his life, the printed record (Wesley's diaries, journals, letters) seems to reveal an eighty-seven-year-old man who, physically, had come to his end. But that same record also yields the activities of an evangelical missionary still traveling and preaching throughout Great Britain, still administering the details of his Methodist or anization. He would continue, as he once remarked, to "do a little for God before he dropped into the dust." Wesley did not seek to avoid old age; he simply never considered it!