Q. How do you know that?

A. From what I have seen. When our enemies came against us before, then the beloved clouds came for us. And often much rain, and sometimes hail, has come upon them, and that in a very hot day. And I saw when many French and Choctaws and other nations came against one of our towns: And the ground made a noise under them, and the Beloved Ones in the air behind them: And they were afraid and went away, and left their meat and drink and their guns. I tell no lie. All these saw it too.

Q. Have you heard such noises at other times?

A. Yes, often: Before and after almost every battle.
Q. What sort of noises were they?

A. Like the noise of drums and guns and shouting.

Q. Have you heard any such lately?

A. Yes: Four days after our last battle with the French. Q. Then you heard nothing before it?

A. The night before, I dreamed I heard many drums up there, and many trumpets there, and much stamping of feet and shouting. Till then I thought we should all die. But then I thought the Beloved Ones were come to help us. And the next day I heard above a hundred guns go off, before the fight began. And I said "When the sun is there, the Beloved Ones will help us, and we shall conquer our enemies." And we did so.

Q. Do you often think and talk of the Beloved Ones?

A. We think of them always wherever we are. We talk of them and to them, at home and abroad; in peace, in war, before and after we fight; and, indeed, whenever and wherever we meet together.

Q. Where do you think your souls go after death?

A. We believe the souls of the red men walk up and down near the place where they died, or where their bodies lie. For we have often heard cries and noises near the place, where any prisoners have been burnt.

Q. Where do the souls of white men go after death?
A. We cannot tell. We have not seen.

Q. Our belief is, that the souls of bad men only walk up and down; but the souls of good men go up.

A. I believe so too. But I told you the talk of the nation.

Mr. ANDREWS, the Interpreter. They said at the burying (which Mr. Wesley had attended shortly before,) "They knew what you was doing. You was speaking to the Beloved Ones above, to take up the soul of the young woman."

Q. We have a Book that tells us many things of the Beloved Ones above. Would you be glad to know them? A. We have no time now but to fight. If we should ever be at peace, we should be glad to know.

Q. Do you expect ever to know what the white men know? Mr. ANDREWS. They told Mr. Oglethorp, they believed "the time will come when the red and white men will be one."

Q. What do the French teach you?

A. The French Black Kings* never go out. you go about. We like that. That is good.

We see

But

Q. How came your nation to the knowledge they have? A. As soon as ever the ground was sound, and fit to stand upon, it came to us, and has been with us ever since. we are young men. Our old men know more. But all of them do not know. There are but a few, whom the Beloved One chooses from a child, and is in them, and takes care of them, and teaches them. They know these things, and our old men practise, therefore they know; but I do not practise, therefore I know little.

March 4.-Mr. Wesley wrote to the trustees for Georgia, giving them an account of his expenses from March

* So they called the Priests.

At

1, 1736, to March 1, 1737, which deducting extraordinary expenses for repairing the parsonage house, journies to Frederica, &c. amounted for himself and Mr. Delamotte, to forty four pounds, four shillings and four pence. the same time he accepted of the fifty pounds a year, sent by the society for his maintainence, which, however, was in a manner forced upon him, as he had formed a resolution not to except of it, saying his fellowship was sufficient for him.* For a particular account of the trials, perplexities and persecutions Mr. Wesley suffered, passed through and endured, in America, the reader is referred to Moore's life of Wesley, Vol. I. Sometime in November, 1737, he determined to return to England. About the first of December, he left Savannah, in company with three other persons.

Mr. Wesley and his three companions suffered great hardships in traveling from Purrysburg to Port Royal. Not being able to procure a guide, they set out an hour before sunrise without one. The consequence was, they lost their way; and wandered in the woods till evening, without any food but part of a gingerbread cake divided among them, and without a drop of water. At night two of the company dug with their hands about three feet deep, and found water, with which they were refreshed. They lay down together on the ground, (in December,) "And I at least," says Mr. Wesley, "slept till near six in the morning." They rose, took the rest of the gingerbread cake, and wandered on till between one and two o'clock, before they came to any house, or obtained any further refreshment.-December 6, after many difficulties and delays they came to Port Royal, and the next day walked to Beaufort, on the opposite

*He thought differently afterward. He did not think that either Mr. Fletcher, or Mr. Perronet, did well in not claiming their dues, as it tended to injure their successors. This also I know from himself.

side of the island. Here Mr. Jones, the minister of the place, invited Mr. Wesley to his house, and gave him, as he acknowledges, a lively idea of the old English hospitality. Mr. Wesley adds, in his private Journal, "Yet observing the elegance, and more than neatness of every thing about him I could not but sigh to myself, and say, Heu delicatum discipulum duri Magistri !"* Perhaps, this remark was more in the Mystic than in the Christian style; and, to adopt the language which Mr. Wesley sometimes used, he was severely reproved for it, shortly after, being almost refused the necessaries of life.

Mr. Wesley proceeds: "Early on Tuesday, December 13th, we came to Charleston, where I expected trials of a quite different nature and more dangerous contempt and hunger being easy to be borne; but who can bear respect and fulness of bread?" On the 16th, he parted from his faithful friend, Mr. Delamotte, from whom he had been but a few days separate since their departure from England. On the 22d, he took his leave of America, after having preached the Gospel, as he observes, in Savannah, "not as he ought, but as he was able, for one year and nearly nine months."

Such a burning and shining light was not to be hidden in the then uncultivated wilds of Georgia. He who had sold all for God and his truth, and who was fitted to defend that truth against all the deceivableness of the carnal mind, with all its additional weapons of vain philosophy, or worldly prudence, was called to act in a very different sphere. And though permitted by the only wise God our Savior, to be "sifted as wheat," and tried in the furnace of adversity, he was preserved and brought forth as gold, which

"Returns more pure, and brings forth all its weight."

* Alas, for the delicate disciple of a Master that endured all hardness! + Those who have faith, and who abide therein.

Divine Providence was about to lead him into a field of action in which every gift that God had given him was tried to the uttermost, and "was found unto praise, and honor, and glory."

Mr. Wesley says, "In 1727, my brother and I reading the bible, saw inward and outward holiness therein, followed after it, and invited others so to do. In 1737, we saw that this holiness comes by faith, and that men are justified before they are sanctified. But still holiness was our point, inward and outward holiness.

In the beginning of the following May, (1738,) Mr. Whitefield arrived at Savannah, where he found some serious persons, the fruits of Mr. Wesley's ministry, glad to receive him. He had now an opportunity of inquiring upon the spot, into the circumstances of the late disputes, and bears testimony to the ill usage Mr. Wesley had received. When he was at Charleston, Mr. Garden acquainted him with the ill treatment Mr. Wesley had met with, and assured him, that, were the same arbitrary proceedings to commence against him, he would defend him with life and fortune.* These testimonies, of persons so respectable, and capable of knowing all the circumstances of the affair, with candid persons, must do away all suspicions, with regard to the integrity of Mr. Wesley's conduct.

January 13.-They had a thorough storm.-On the 24th, being about 160 leagues from the Land's-end, he observes, his mind was full of thought, and he wrote as follows: "I went to America to convert the Indians; but oh! who shall convert me? Who is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? I have a fair summer religion; I can talk well, nay, and believe myself while no danger is near: But let death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled. Nor can I say, 'To die is gain!

+ Roberts' Narrative of the life of Mr. George Whitefield, p. 58.