Introduction

Biography

Both of Ol­iv­ers’ par­ents died when he was young, so he did not re­ceive tho­rough re­li­gious train­ing as a child. For­tu­nate­ly, he heard a ser­mon by G. White­field which ev­en­tu­al­ly led him to Christ.

After con­ver­sion, he joined the Me­tho­dist So­cie­ty at Bradford-on-Avon. It was through that or­gan­i­z­ation that he first met John Wes­ley and joined his ev­an­gel­is­tic eff­orts, most­ly in Corn­wall.

For some time, Ol­iv­ers co-ed­it­ed the Ar­min­i­an Ma­ga­zine. He al­so wrote an el­e­gy up­on the death of John Wes­ley.