Now the parish has a library. Eleven Methodist voices, sixty-six thousand pages — Wesley, Clarke, Fletcher, Asbury, Arminius — searchable to the word, cross-linked to every verse, and open to anyone, anywhere.
Eleven rings, one for each author — Arminius at the heart, Beet at the rim. Sixty-six panes to a ring, Genesis at twelve o'clock round to Revelation. A pane burns brighter the more often that author cites that book: 127,665 references, counted across the whole library. See Beet blaze across Paul's letters, and every ring flare at the Gospel of John.
“I felt my heart strangely warmed.”
Wesley kept his journal for fifty-five years; Asbury rode six thousand miles a year and kept his for forty-five. Here they become a calendar — every day of the year opens on what happened that day, and where.