and the Spaniards. In the mean while, a vessel with about twenty families of Jews arrived, to all of whom lots of land were assigned. Another vessel came, bringing forty Irish convicts, who had been refused at Jamaica. These also were received; although, like some others of their brethren, they were not remarkable for the peaceableness of their habits. They afterwards occasioned considerable disturbance in the colony. The Governor strictly forbad the use of rum among all classes of settlers; and the Trustees would on no account tolerate the employment of Negro slaves. They wished the people to acquire and preserve habits of industry; and they knew that this would never be the case, if Negroes were imported, and labour were extorted from them under the driver's lash.

After remaining in Georgia about fifteen months, Mr. Oglethorpe returned to England; and the report of success which he gave on his arrival served greatly to increase the popularity of the undertaking. The fame of the colony spread far and wide, and still greater numbers of people, from Germany as well as England, left their homes, and hastened to this desired spot. Among these were persons of some property, who hoped to turn their capital to good account. While the Governor was making his arrangements for conducting a second company of emigrants to Georgia, application was made to some of the Oxford Methodists, to settle in the colony as Clergymen. Dr. Burton pressed Mr. John Wesley especially to undertake a mission among the Indians in the neighbourhood of the colony. Mr. Oglethorpe well knew the sterling worth of the Wesleys, having long been a personal friend of the family. He was a regular correspondent of the Rector of Epworth; and two complimentary poems addressed to him are found in the volume which was published by the younger Samuel Wesley. After considerable hesitation, and taking the advice of friends, Mr. John Wesley consented to go as a Missionary to the Indians; and it was finally arranged that Charles should accompany him, as Secretary to the Governor. Up to this time, Charles had declined entering into holy orders; but he was now ordained, that he might be able to officiate as a Clergyman in the colony, where the spiritual interests of the people had been unavoidably neglected.

The conduct of the two brothers, in tearing themselves away from their friends, and embarking for the distant wilderness, excited great surprise in many quarters, as might be expected. Of the purity of their motives, indeed, no doubt can be entertained. They were both happily and usefully employed as College Tutors; and had they sought preferment in the Church, considering their acquirements, talents, and connexions, they might doubtless have obtained it. But the fact is, by reading the writings of Mr. Law, and others of a similar kind, they were deeply impressed with the necessity of holiness. According to their apprehensions, true holiness is attained principally by means of sufferings, mental and bodily; and hence they adopted this mode of life, resolved to do and suffer whatever it should please God to lay upon them. Their theological views were not only defective, but erroneous. They understood not the true nature of a sinner's justification before God; nor the faith by which it is obtained; nor its connexion with sanctification. Holiness of

heart and life was the object of their eager pursuit; and this they sought, not by faith, but by works, and personal austerity, according to the misleading doctrine of Mr. Law. "Our end in leaving our native country," says Mr. John Wesley, "was not to avoid want, (God having given us plenty of temporal blessings,) nor to gain the dung and dross of riches or honour; but singly this,-to save our souls; to live wholly to the glory of God."

Mr. Samuel Wesley, jun., who had from the beginning taken a lively interest in the colony, about the time of his brothers' embarkation published a poem for the furtherance of its objects. Poets are Prophets by profession; and Samuel Wesley, while he eulogizes Oglethorpe and his undertaking, prognosticates the future greatness of Georgia. He describes it in distant prospect as a second Britain; and thought that it would, in the mean while, supply the gentlemen of England with wine, and the ladies with silks. In these views he was not singular. Some people from among the Vaudois were carried over, to assist in the breeding and management of silk-worms. The following lines are given as a specimen of Samuel Wesley's "Georgia;" a poem which is now extremely scarce :

"See where beyond the spacious ocean lies
A wide waste land beneath the southern skies;
Where kindly suns for ages roll'd in vain,
Nor e'er the vintage saw, or rip'ning grain ;
Where all things into wild luxuriance ran,
And burden'd Nature ask'd the aid of man.
In this sweet climate and prolific soil
He bids the eager swain indulge his toil;
In thee possession to the planter's hand
Consigns the rich uncultivated land.

'Go you,' the Monarch cries, 'go settle there,
Whom Britain from her plenitude can spare :
Go, your old wonted industry pursue,
Nor envy Spain the treasures of Peru.'"

"Be not content in council here to join ;
A farther labour, Oglethorpe, is thine.

In each great deed thou claim'st the foremost part,
And toil and danger charm thy generous heart.
But chief for this thy warm affections rise,
For O thou view'st it with a parent's eyes!

For this thou tempt'st the vast, tremendous main,
And floods and storms oppose their threats in vain."

"He comes, whose life, when absent from your view, Was one continued ministry for you;

For
you were laid out all his plans and art,
Won every will, and soften'd every heart.
With what paternal joy shall he relate
How views its mother-isle your little state!
Think, while he strove your distant coast to gain,
How oft he sigh'd, and chid the tedious main !
Impatient to survey, by culture graced,
Your dreary woodland, and your rugged waste.
Fair were the scenes he feign'd, the prospect fair;
And sure, ye Georgians, all he feign'd was there.
A thousand pleasures crowd into his breast;
But one, one mighty thought absorbs the rest,—
'And give me, Heaven, to see,' the patriot cries,
'Another Britain in the desert rise." "

"With nobler products see thy Georgia teems,
Cheer'd with the genial sun's directer beams;
There the wild vine to culture learns to yield,
And purple clusters ripen through the field.
Now bid thy merchants bring thy wine no more,
Or from the' Iberian or the Tuscan shore :

No more they need the' Hungarian vineyards drain,
And France herself may drink her best champagne.
Behold at last, and in a subject-land,

Nectar sufficient for thy large demand!

Delicious nectar, powerful to improve
Our hospitable mirth, and social love.
This for thy jovial sons.

Nor less the care

Of thy young province to oblige the fair.

Here tend the silk-worm, in the verdant shade,
The frugal matron and the blooming maid."

Far different thoughts occupied the minds of the devoted brothers, John and Charles, who embarked as Missionaries to Georgia, on board the "Simmonds," Oct. 14th, 1735. Questions of commerce they left to secular men. To raise up a holy people in that distant land was their anxious concern. They were accompanied by Mr. Benjamin Ingham, one of the Oxford Methodists, and by Mr. Charles Delamotte, the son of a merchant in London. The case of this young man was peculiar. Mr. Wesley, in his Journal, says, that he "had offered himself some days before;" but for what purpose, and under what circumstances, the writer's modesty forbade him to state. The fact is, that Delamotte's mind was under deep religious convictions; his heart clave to Mr. Wesley, of whose piety and wisdom he had formed the highest conceptions. When he heard that Mr. Wesley was going as a Missionary to Georgia, he could not bear the thought of being separated from him, and therefore requested permission to accompany him as a servant. To this, as might be expected, the parents and friends of the young man were strenuously opposed. His father, who was a man of high respectability, and held the office of a Magistrate, offered to settle him in a handsome way of business, if he would remain at home. No persuasions, however, could alter the youth's purpose; so that his parents at length gave a reluctant con

sent.

Charles Delamotte, therefore, went abroad; lived with Mr. Wesley; served him as a son in the Gospel; did much good; and endured great hardships for the sake of the Lord Jesus. He was particularly useful in teaching the children of the settlers, and in serving the poor and afflicted. It is probable that the impressions which led to these results were made upon his mind by Mr. Wesley's preaching in London, when he was there preparing for his mission.

The ship in which the Wesleys embarked contained one

• Whitefield's Journal.

hundred and twenty-four persons, men, women, and children, including Mr. Oglethorpe, and twenty-six Germans, members of the Moravian Church, with David Nitschman, their Bishop. These pious strangers were going to Georgia, in compliance with the invitation given to persecuted Protestants; that they might there enjoy, in undisturbed tranquillity, their own peculiar religious rites, and extend the blessings of Christian knowledge to the Creek, Chickasaw, and Cherokee Indians. Sixteen of their brethren were already engaged in this enterprise of Christian mercy, having emigrated to Georgia for that purpose during the preceding year, under the guidance of their Ministers, Mr. Spangenberg, John Toelschig, and Anthony Seyffart; and a portion of land had been assigned to them for their occupation. This was the third mission which the Brethren had instituted. They had one in the Danish island of St. Thomas, and another in Greenland, in successful operation. David Nitschman had been personally concerned in the establishment of that in the West Indies; and for some time had supported himself and his fellowlabourer, Leonard Döber, by working as a carpenter.

The meeting of the Wesleys with this primitive Evangelist, and the pious refugees that accompanied him, appeared to be casual; but it was, in fact, one of those providential arrangements from which the most momentous consequences arise. It was from a learned member of the Moravian Church that the two brothers were subsequently taught the all-important doctrine of present salvation from sin by faith in the Lord Jesus: a doctrine to which all their public usefulness is to be distinctly traced; but of which, as yet, they had no just conception. Their intercourse with David Nitschman and his flock, who accompanied them to Georgia, prepared them for the enlightened instructions of Peter Böhler, which they gratefully received on their return to England. Bishop Nitschman, and a few of his German brethren, during the voyage, applied themselves to the study of English. For nothing were the Wesleys more remarkable than for diligence in their sacred calling. They were always employed either in doing or receiving good, according to the degree of religious light which they possessed. No sooner did they commence their voyage, than they entered upon their Missionary labours, occupying every hour with some useful work, con