October 31…Halloween. It seems to get bigger every year. On my street, there are more decorations, more lights, more pumpkins, more ghosts and goblins. November 1, on the other hand, passed with little notice. For John Wesley, it was just the opposite. It was his favorite holiday. Reading his journals, you can pass December 25 with hardly a word about Christmas, and you can comb through his entries from February to June any year and hardly determine Ash Wednesday or Good Friday. But on November 1, Wesley goes into fits of ecstasy. He tells you what text he preached from and where. He cites Brother Charles' hymn for the day. He even delayed the dedication of Wesley's Chapel on City Road in London until November 1, 1778. It was his favorite day of the year. 

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