Wesley Corpus

Who now regrets his early youth would spend The life so nobly that so soon should end? Who blames the stripling for performing more Than Doctors grave, and Prelates of threescore ? Who now esteems his fervour indiscreet, His prayers too frequent, or his alms too great? Who thinks, where blest he reigns beyond the sky His crown too radiant, or his throne too high? Who but the Fiend, who once his course withstood, And whisper’d,--“ Stay till fifty to be good %” Sure, if believed to’ obtain his hellish aim, Adjourning to the time that never came. Journal I.--2 Tvrspay, October 14, 1735.--Mr. Benjamin Inghart of Queen’s - College, Oxford, Mr. Charles Delamotte, son of a mer¢sant in Lon- . don, who had offered himself some days before, my bro.her Charles Wesley, and myself, took boat for Gravesend, in order to embark for Georgia. Our end in leaving our native country was not to avoid want, (God having given us plenty of temporal blessings,) nor to gain the dung or dross of riches or honour ; but singly this,--to save our souls ; to live wholly to the glory of God. In the afternoon we found the Simmonds off Gravesend, and immediately went on board. Wednesday and Thursday we spent with one or two of our friends, partly on board and partly on shore, in exhorting one another “ to shake off every weight, and to run with patience the race set before us.” Fri. 17.--I began to learn German, in order to converse with the Germans, six and twenty of whom we had on board. On Sunday, the weather being fair and calm, we had the Morning Service, on quarterdeck. I now first preached extempore, and then administered the Lord’s Supper to six or seven communicants. A little flock. May God increase it! Mon. 20.--Delieving the denying ourselves, even in the smallest mstances, might, by the blessing of God, be helpful to us, we wholly left off the use of flesh and wine, and confined ourselves to vegetable food,--chiefly rice and biscuit. In the afternoon, David Nitschman, Bishop of the Germans, and two others, began to learn English. O may we be, not only of one tongue, but of one mind and of one heart!