Most of us are excited when we spot a prominent person, an entertainer, professional athlete or high profile politician.  I am no exception.  Judith and I happened to be in Washington, staying at the Washington Hilton Hotel, where the White House Press Corp Banquet was to be held.  The evening of the banquet, we were chatting on the elevator with someone we thought to be part of the hotel staff.  Later on television we saw him sitting at the right hand of President Bush.  It turned out to be Carl Cannon, who was elected president of the White House correspondents.  
In a short while we began to notice many celebrities coming into the hotel.  We spoke to Mary Tyler Moore, Jason Priestly, Julie Andrews, Bradley Whitford, Giselle, the Rev. Al Sharpton, John Roberts, Morley Safer and many other prominent personalities.  Celebrity watching is very entertaining.
    Few people deserve the title of “celebrity” more than John Wesley.  Few have had such an impact on their century and those to follow as has John Wesley.  Rupert Davies writes, “...hardly any historical personage from outside the New Testament has attracted to himself in modern times so many books, dissertations, essays, chapters and articles, at every level of scholarship and its substitutes, as John Wesley.”   
It’s amazing how much he accomplished and how far he traveled. In 1703, when John Wesley was born, the “Age of Reason” had just been ushered onto the scene. Isaac Newton's Principia in 1687 had introduced the world to the modern scientific method, and parliamentary government had just been established.  In 1702 the first daily newspaper was published in Britain, the first step toward mass communication.  With such dramatic achievements, yet such primitive “advances,” it remains a remarkable wonder that John Wesley could write so much, preach to so many, cover so many miles (4,000 miles a year) and be admired and banished by so many.  A prominent historian has declared that no one had more influence on the 18th century than did John Wesley.
    If John Wesley had been invited to the White House Press Corp Banquet, we would all have been eager to snap a photo and get an autograph.