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nal jurisdiction. It was a wild, unexplored wilderness, inhabited only by Indian tribes. Under the sanction of a royal c

lum for foreign Protestants who were the subjects of popish intolerance. No Roman Catholic could find a home there. James Edward Oglethorpe, an earnest friend of hu

at Savannah and were breathing its balmy air, and the enthusiastic governor was on his ret

to endure, and such a spirit as seemed to inflame them, were regarded as excellent qualities for the hardships of such a country as Georgia. Mr. Wesley was earnestly pressed by no less a person than the famous Dr. Burton to undertake a mission to the Indians of Georgia, Dr. Burton telling him th

ou intend to become a knight-errant? How did Quixotism get into your head? You want nothing. You have a go

k be of God, I am sober-minded; for it declares, 'There is no man that hath left houses, and friends, and brethren for th

ty sons, I should rejoice to see them all so employed." His sister Emily said, "Go, my br

, the company embarked on board the Simmonds, off Gravesend

f discovery-the dis

ving given us plenty of temporal blessings; nor to gain the dung and dross of ric

ld live on "water and bread and the fruits of the earth," and speak "without giving offense." He justly concluded that "pomp and show of the world had no place in the wilds of America." "An Indian hut offered no food for curiosity." "My chief motive," he says, "is the hope of saving my own soul. I hope to learn the true sense of the Gosp

liness was in his own heart. He had looked for holiness in works, sacrif

r bishop, were passengers, bound to the New World, fleeing from popish persecutions. Wesley, observing their behavior in the midst of great

beautiful Savannah. Soon they were kneeling upon its soil, t

e, Mr. Wesley," he said; "I have met with a provocation too great for a man to bear. You know I drink nothing but Cyprus wine. I provided myself with several dozens of it, and this villain, Grimaldi, has drank nearly the whole lot of it. I will be avenged. He shall be tied hand and foot,

his bunch of keys on the floor before his poor, cringing servant, saying, "There, villain, take my keys; and behave better in the future.

he witness within yourself? Does the Spirit of God bear witness with your spirit that you are a child of God?" Wesley seemed surprised at such questions. Spangenberg continued, "Do you know Jesus Christ?" Wesley replied, "I know him as the Saviou

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hed himself to Charles Wesley, and devoted himself to the children and the poor, and was the first to follow Charles to England. Delamotte was impelled to go to Georgia from his love of John Wesley and his desire to

sley and his colaborers turned their attention to the whites, hoping that God would before long open their way to preach the Gospel to the Indians. In the prosecution of their mission they practiced the most rigid austerities. They slept on the ground instead of on beds, lived on bread and water, dispensin

to declare that they liked nothing they did. Even Oglethorpe himself had be

mixture of mercy. Scandal, with its scorpion tongue; backbiting, with its canine proclivities; and gossip, which also does immense bus

y to avoid me." "The servant that used to wash my linen sent it back unwashed." "I sometimes pitied and sometimes diverted myself

him a morsel of bread." Though very sick, he was able to go out at night to bury a scout-boatman, "but envied him his quiet grave." He procured the old bedstead on which the boatman had died, upon which to

He took passage in a rickety old vessel with a drunken captain, and all came near being lost at sea. The ship put into Boston in distress, and there Charles Wesley remained for more than a month, sick much

nder among the angels. His life was frequently threatened at Frederica, and at Savannah there was no end to the insults he endured. Hearing o

re white because she learned that he was pleased with that color; was always manifesting great interest in his spiritual state; and all, without doubt, to cover up deeper designs. Mr. Wesley, always unsuspecting and confiding, became strongly attached to her for a time, but was subsequently convinced that God di

ley had promised to marry Miss Hopkey, though Henry Moore declares that Wesley told him that no such thing ever occurred. M

this he was prosecuted before the courts, a packed and paid grand jury bringing against him ten indictments, and the minority

agistrate and others became so strong that he co

eached a sermon in English and administered the communion; at one he held a service in French; at two he catechised the children; at three he held another

telling them that he had sought seven times to have the case tried, but in vain, and that for the balance they could look after that. On the same night, after public prayers, with four men to accompany him, Wesley left Savannah, December 2, 1737, never more to return. They took a small boat to Perrysburg, a d

2d day of December Mr. Wesley set sail for England, where he safely arrived on the first

ng been carried to America, contrary to all his preceding resolutions. "Hereby I trust

xpressible. His name is very precious among the people; and he has laid a foundation that I hope