ney thither Mr. Ingham undertaking to supply my place at Savannah, for the time I should stay there, I came thither 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 long been discontinued, and from that time every thing grew worse and worse: not many retaining any more of the form than of 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 I cried to God to arise and maintain his own cause: the world and after the evening prayers were ended, invited a few to my house, as I did every night while I stayed in Frederica. I read to them one of the exhortations of Ephraim Syrus, the most awakening wri- ←→ ter, I think, of all the ancients. We concluded our reading and conversation with a psalm, and I trust, our God gave us his blessing. Monday 18, 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 as I could; after another hymn we concluded with prayer.

Monday 25, I took boat, and after a slow and dangerous passage, came to Savannah on Sunday the 31st.

Tuesday, Nov. 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." To this indeed my plain answer was, "I know not that I am under any obligation to the contrary. I never promised to stay here one month. I openly declared both before, at, and ever since my coming hither, that I neither would 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 you to be minister of Savannah ?" I replied, "They did; but it was not done by my solicitation: It was done without either my desire or knowledge. Therefore I cannot conceive that appointment to lay me under any obligation of continuing there, any longer than till a door is opened to the heathen: 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 heathen; 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.

Thursday, 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.

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Wednesday 23, Mr. Delamotte and I, with a guide, set out to walk to the Cowpen; when we had walked two or three hours, our guide told us plainly, "He did not know where we were." However, believing it could not be far off, we thought it best to go on. In an hour or two we came to a cypress swamp, which lay directly across our way: There was not time to walk back to Savannah before night; so we walked through it, the water being about breast-high. By that time we had gone a mile beyond it, we were out of all path; and it being now past sun-set, we sat down, intending to make a fire, and to stay there till morning; but finding our tinder wet, we were at a stand; I advised to walk on still; but my companions being faint and weary, were for lying down, which we accordingly did about six o'clock: The ground was as wet as our clothes, which (it being a sharp frost) were soon froze together; however, I slept till six in the morning. There fell a heavy dew in the night, which covered us over as white as snow. Within an hour after sun-rise, we came to

a plantation, and in the evening, without any hurt, to Savannah. Tuesday 28, We set out by land with a better guide for Frederica. On Wednesday evening we came to Fort-Argyle, on the back of the river Ogeechy. The next afternoon we crossed Cooanochy river in a small canoe, our horses swimming by the side of it. We made a fire on the bank, and notwithstanding the rain, slept quietly till the morning.

Saturday, Jan. 1, 1737, Our provisions fell short, our journey being longer than we expected; but having a little barbecued bearsflesh (i. e. dried in the sun) we boiled it, and found it wholesome food. The next day we reached Darien, the settlement of the Scotch Highlanders, a sober, industrious, friendly, hospitable people; whose minister, Mr. M'Leod, is a serious, resolute, and I hope, a pious man.

On Monday evening we left Darien, and on Wednesday 5, came to Frederica. Most here were as we expected, cold and heartless: We found not one who retained his first love. O send forth thy light and thy truth, that they may guide them! Let them not yet follow their own imaginations!

After having beaten the air in this unhappy place for twenty days, on January 26, I took my final leave of Frederica. It was not any apprehension of my own danger, though my life had been threatened many times, but an utter despair of doing good there; which made me content with the thought of seeing it no more.

In my passage home, having procured a celebrated book, the Works of Nicholas Machiavel, I set myself carefully to read and consider it. I began with a prejudice in his favour; having been informed, he had often been misunderstood, and greatly misrepresented. I weighed the sentiments that were less common; tran

scribed the passages wherein they were contained; compared one passage with another, and endeavoured to form a cool, impartial judgment; and my cool judgment is, That if all the other doctrines of devils which have been committed to writing, since letters were in the world, were collected together in one volume, it would fall short of this: And, that should a prince form himself by this book, so calmly recommending hypocrisy, treachery, lying, robbery, oppression, adultery, whoredom and murder of all kinds; Domitian or Nero would be an angel of light, compared to that man.*

Monday 31, We came to Savannah. Tuesday, February 1, being the anniversary feast, on account of the first convoy's landing in Georgia, we had a sermon, and the holy communion. Thursday 24, It was agreed, Mr. Ingham should go for England, and endeavour to bring over (if it should please God) some of our friends to strengthen our hands in his work. Saturday 26, He left Savannah.

By Mr. Ingham I wrote to Dr. Bray's associates, who had sent a parochial library to Savannah. It is expected of the Ministers who receive these, to send an account to their benefactors of the method they use in catechising the children, and instructing the youth of their respective parishes. That part of the letter was as follows:

"Our general method is this: A young gentleman, who came with "me, teaches between thirty and forty children to read, write, and "cast accounts. Before school in the morning, and after school in "the afternoon, he catechises the lowest class, and endeavours to fix "something of what was said, in their understanding as well as their "memories. In the evening he instructs the elder children. On "Saturday in the afternoon I catechise them all. The same I do on "Sunday before the evening service. And in the church, imme"diately after the second lesson, a select number of them having re

*Nicholas Machiavel was born of a distinguished family at Florence. The book here referred to is a political treatise, entitled, The Prince, which, of all his writings, has made the greatest noise in the world. Mankind are not agreed as to the motives of this work; some thinking he meant to recommend tyrannical maxims; others that he only delineated them to excite abhorrence. Some have said that his greatest fault was that he told the world what bad princes did, not what they ought to do; and that his principles, though daily condemned are daily put in practice. It has also been said, that he took his political maxims from the government of the Popes. He died in 1530.

+ Dr. Thomas Bray was born at Marton, in Shropshire, in the year 1656, and educated at Oxford. He was at length presented to the vicarage of Over-Whitacre, in Warwickshire; and in 1760, to the rectory of Sheldon, where he composed his Catechetical Lectures, which procured him such reputation, that Dr. Compton, Bishop of London, pitched upon him as a proper person to model the infant church of Maryland, and for that purpose he was invested with the office of commissary. He now engaged in several noble undertakings. He procured sums to be raised for purchasing small libaries, for the use of the poor ministers in the several parts of our plantations: and the better to promote this design he published two books: one entitled, Bibliotheca Parochialis, or a scheme of such theological and other heads, as seem requisite to be perused or occasionally consulted by the clergy, together with a catalogue of books which may be profitably read on each of those points; the other, Apostolical Charity, its nature and excellency considered. He endeavoured to get a fund established for the propagation of the gospel, especially among the uncultivated Indians; and by his means a patent was obtained for erecting the corporation called, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He, by his industry, procured relief for prisoners; and formed the plan of the society for the reformation of manners, charity schools, &c. He wrote 1. his Martyrology or Papal usurpation, in one volume folio. 2. Directorium Missionarium; and other works. He died in 1730..

peated the catechism and been examined in some part of it, I en"deavour to explain it at large, and to enforce that part, both on "them and the congregation.

"Some time after the evening service, as many of my parishioners "as desire it, meet at my house, as they do also on Wednesday even"ings, and spend about an hour in prayer, singing and mutual ex"hortation. A smaller number (mostly those who design to com"municate the next day) meet here on Saturday evenings; and a "few of these come to me on the other evenings, and pass half an ❝hour in the same employment."

Friday, March 4, I wrote the Trustees for Georgia an account of the last year's expence, from March 1, 1736, to March 1, 1737, which, deducting extraordinary expences, such as repairing the parsonage house, and journeys to Frederica, amounted for Mr. Delamotte and me to 441. 4s. 4d.

From the directions I received from God this day, touching an affair of the greatest importance, I could not but observe, as I had done many times before, the entire mistake of those, who assert, "God will not answer your prayer, unless your heart be wholly resigned to his will." My heart was not wholly resigned to his will. Therefore, not daring to depend on my own judgment, I cried the more earnestly to him, To supply what was wanting in me. And I know and am assured, He heard my voice, and did send forth his light and his truth.

Thursday 24, A fire broke out in the house of Robert Hows, and in an hour burnt it to the ground. A collection was made for him the next day; and the generality of the people shewed a surprising willingness, to give a little out of their little, for the relief of a necessity greater than their own.

About this time Mr. Lacy of Thunderbolt called upon me; when observing him to be in a deep sadness, I asked, What was the reason of it? And a terrible one indeed he gave in the relation following:

In 1733, David Jones, a sadler, a middle aged man, who had for some time before lived at Nottingham, being at Bristol, met a person there; who after giving him some account of Georgia, asked, Whether he would go thither? Adding, his trade (that of a saddler) was an exceeding good trade there, upon which he might live, creditably and comfortably. He objected his want of money to pay his passage, and buy some tools which he should have need of. The gentleman told him, He would supply him with that, and hire him a shop when he came to Georgia, wherein he might follow his business, and to repay him, as it suited his convenience. Accordingly to Georgia they went; where, soon after his arrival, his master, as he now styled himself, sold him to Mr. Lacy, who set him to work with the rest of his servants in clearing land. He commonly appeared much more thoughtful than the rest, often stealing into the woods alone. He was now sent to do some work on an island three or four miles from Mr. Lacy's great plantation. Thence he desired the other servants to return without him, saying, he would stay and kill a deer. This was on Saturday. On Monday they found him on the shore with

his gun by him, and the fore part of his head shot to pieces. In his pocket was a paper book, all the leaves thereof were fair, except one, on which ten or twelve verses were written; two of which were these, which I transcribed thence from his own hand-writing:

"Death could not a more sad retinue find;

Sickness and pain before, and darkness all behind!”

Sunday, April 3, and every day in this great and holy week, we had a sermon and the holy communion.

Monday 4, I began learning Spanish, in order to converse with my Jewish parishioners; some of whom seem nearer the mind that was in Christ, than many of those who call him Lord.

Tuesday 12, Being determined, if possible, to put a stop to the proceedings of one in Carolina, who had married several of my parishioners without either banns or licence, and declared, “He would do so still;" I set out in a sloop for Charles-Town. I landed there on Thursday, and related the case to Mr. Garden, the Bishop of London's Commissary, who assured me, he would take care no such irregularity should be committed for the future.

Sunday 17, Mr. Garden, to whom I must ever acknowledge myself indebted for many kind and generous offices, desiring me to preach, I did so, on those words of the epistle for the day, Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. To that plain account of the Christian state which these words naturally led me to give, a man of education and character seriously objected, what is indeed a great truth, "Why if this be Christianity, a Christian must have more courage than Alexander the Great."

Tuesday 19, We left Charles-Town; but meeting with stormy and contrary winds, after losing our anchor, and beating out at sea all night, on Thursday 21, we with some difficulty got back into Charles-Town harbour.

Friday 22, It being the time of their annual visitation, I had the pleasure of meeting with the clergy of South Carolina; among whom in the afternoon there was such a conversation for several hours, on Christ our Righteousness, as I had not heard at any visitation in England, or hardly on any other occasion.

Saturday 23, Mentioning to Mr. Thompson, Minister of St Bartholomew's, near Ponpon, my being disappointed of a passage home by water, he offered me one of his horses if I would go by land, which I gladly accepted of. He went with me twenty miles, and sent his servant to guide me the other twenty to his house. Finding a young Negroe there, who seemed more sensible than the rest, I asked her, how long she had been in Carolina? she said, two or three years; but that she was born in Barbadoes, and had lived there in a minister's family from a child. I asked whether she went to church there? she said, "Yes, every Sunday, to carry my mistress's children." I asked what she had learned at church? she said, "Nothing; I heard a deal, but did not understand it." But what did your master teach you at home?" "Nothing."" Nor your mistress?" "No." I asked, "But don't you know that your hands and feet, and