Wesley Corpus

Tues. Oct. 12. We considered if any thing could yet be done for the poor people of Frederica; and I submitted to the judgment of my friends ; which was, that I should take another journey thither: Mr. Ingham undertaking to supply my place at Savannah, for the time 'should stay there. I came hither on Saturday, the 16th, and found few things better than I expected. The Morning and Evening prayers, which were read for a while after my leaving the place, had been long discontinued, and from that time every thing grew worse and worse ; not many retaining any more of the form than the power of godliness. I was at first a little discouraged, but soon remembered the word which cannot fail: ' Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world." I cried to God to "arise and maintain his own cause ;"' and after the Evening prayers were ended, invited a few to my house; as I did every night while I stayed at Frederica. I read to them one of the exhortations of Ephraim Syrus: the most awakening writer, IJ think, of all the ancients. We concluded our reading and conversation with a psalm; and I trust our God gave us his blessing. Finding there were several Germans at Frederica, who, not understanding the English tongue, could not join in our public service, I desired them to meet me at my house; which they did every day at noon from thence forward. We first sung a German hymn ; then I read a chapter in the New Testament; then explained it to them as well asI could. After another hymn, we concluded with prayer. I took boat, and atter a slow and dangerous passage, came to Savannah, on Sunday, the 31st.