1. The State of the World's Children (UNICEF, 1995).
  2. Pharis J. Harvey, "Where Children Work: Child Servitude in the Global Economy," The Christian Century (April 5, 1995).
  3. The State of the World's Children.
  4. Marian Wright Edelman, "Cease Fire! Stopping the Gun War Against Children in the United States," The Chicago Theological Seminary Register (Winter, 1995).
  5. The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., ed. Thomas Jackson, 3rd edition, 14 vols. (London: Wesleyan Methodist Book Room, 1872; many later reprints), 8:308.
  6. See Theodore W. Jennings, Jr., Good News to the Poor: John Wesley's Evangelical Economics (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990), and M. Douglas Meeks (ed.), The Portion of the Poor: Good News to the Poor in the Wesleyan Tradition (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995).
  7. Henry D. Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992), 533.
  8. Richard P. Heitzenrater, Wesley and the People Called Methodists (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995), 105-6.
  9. Ibid., 232.
  10. See Wesley's essay "Thoughts Upon Methodism," dated August 4, 1787, and his sermon "On God's Vineyard," written in 1787 after Wesley visited the societies across England.

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