Wesley Corpus

Tues. Noy. 23.--Mr. Oglethorpe sailed for England, leaving Mr. Ingham, Mr. Delamotte, and me, at Savannah ; but with less prospect of preaching to the Indians than we had the first day we set foot in America. Whenever I mentioned it, it was immediately replied, “ You cannot leave Savannah without a minister.” ‘'T'o this indeed my plain answer was, “ I know not that I am under any obligation to the contrary. [ never promised to stay here one month. I openly declared both before, at, and ever since my coming hither, that I neither wouid nor could take charge of the English any longer than till I could go among the Indians.” If it was said, “ But did not the Trustees of Georgia appoint vou to he minister of Savannah?’ I replied, “‘ They did; but it was jot done by my solicitation: it was done without either my desire or snowledge. ‘Therefore, I cannot conceive that appointment to lay me Jan. 1737.] REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 33 under any obligation of continuing there any longer than till a door is opened to the Heathens ; and this I expressly declared at the time I consented to accept of that appointment.” But though I had no other obligation not to leave Savannah now, yet that of love I could not break through : I could not resist the importunate request of the more serious parishioners, “to watch over their souls yet a little longer, till some one came who might supply my place.” And this I the more willingly did, because the time was not come to preach the Gospel of peace to the Heathens; all their nations being in a ferment: and Paustoobee and Mingo Mattaw having told me, in terms, in my own house, “ Now our enemies are all about us, and we can do nothing but fight; but if the beloved ones should ever give us to be at peace, then we would hear the great Word.” Thur. Dec. 9.--Hearing of one dangerously ill, I went to her immediately: she told me, “that she had many things to say :” but her weakness prevented her saying them then; and the next day God required her soul of her.