The influence on John Wesley's theology of an escape as a child from a burning dwelling is thus described by Rev. W. H. Fitchett:
His theology translated itself into the terms of that night scene. The burning house was the symbol of a perishing world. Each human soul, in Wesley's thought, was represented by that fire-girt child, with the flames of sin, and of that divine and eternal auger which unrepenting sin kindles, closing round it. He who had been plucked form the burning house at midnight must pluck men from the flames of a more dreadful fire. That remembered peril colored Wesley's imagination to his dying day.--"Wesley and His Century."
