Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-14


a brief mention Of the facts l have
tired TO bring out in greater fullness'
II q historian were to incorporate In
one book all that bears upon the his
tory he would make a book so volum-
inous that no one could have time to
read IL, but II he Is faithful he VIII
mass over nothing Of Importance With
out giving Il as fair and full treat
ment as possible. This Bishop Stevens
and after him Colonel Jones have done
when treating Of the distinguished
Episcopal ministers OF whom I write.
John and Charles Wesley were
brothers-John the elder by eight
years. They were both in oxford at
the university. John a Fellow and
Charles having but just received his
degree, and his ordination as an
Episcopal priest. They were both OF
them unmarried and we're intensely
religious They belonged 10 a little
society which John had founded which
was derisively called the Holy Club,
or the Methodist society. IL was the
object OF Mr.. Oglethorpe and the
trustees to make the Georgia colony
a model one and a clergyman was
brought out with the. first ship load
OF emigrants. He returned to En-
gland and died on his way home The
year and when Mrs Oglethorpe went
back to England he sought for an
other clergyman. Mr.. John Wesley
was commended to him. When he laid
the case before him and Mr.. Wesley
saw the opening for a great Indian
mission for which the pastorate OF
village church would be a preparation,
ne consented to come and his brother
Charles decided to come with him.
Mr.. Oglethorpe made Charles his sec
rotary and chaplain. Others OF the holy
club-Mr. Ingham. Mr. Delamotte
agreed TO come TO help I'm the mission
field. So they took shipping with Mr..
Oglethorpe and alas for poor John
Wesley's peaceful. life in the new field.
one Of the passengers was a fair young
girl. Her name as given by Mr.. Wes-
ley's biographer. Henry. Moore, was
Sophia Hopkey. but Colonel Jones
SAYS Sophia Hopkins. I think Colonel
Jones Is right. Mr. Wesley was an
extreme high churchman, whose mys-
teal and ascetic views were of the
more pronounced kind He and his
companions held services on the slow
sailing ship which was carrying him
beyond the sea and spent their inter-
walls in study. Mr.. Wesley taught the
Germans English and they taught him
came very much interested In religious
matters and sympathized very deeply.
with this little group of despised Meth
odists, and so the leader OF them all
became very much interested I'm her.
The result was as might have been
expected. The handsome young cler-
g5uian fell in love with the fair maid.
He never proposed marriage, but he
thought very deeply about IL. The Ger
mans on board were a little doubtful
as TO Miss Sophia's earnestness, and
when after they reached Savannah Mr..
Wesley consulted one OF them about
closing up matters BY a proposal OF
marriage they said nay. Miss Sophia
had good reason TO lock for a definite
proposition, but when T. did not come
and evidently was not coming, she was
deeply hurt but like a sensible girl,
did not die OF a broken heart, but sim
ply married a nice young man in the
new village There was not a breath
OF scandal in the whole AFFAIR.
Mr.. Wesley did not expect or intend
TO remain in Savannah. He wanted
TO 60 10 the Indians and found a mis-
sion station, but there was no rector
and he went into the little two
roomed cabin among the pines which
was the parsonage and began his work.
ne Hnu eEIklCE at y GloCh III TIC
morning. communion every Sunday,
preaching at II and catechised the chill
dren at and preached again at night.
He relished those frequent services
more than his parishioners did. Some
Of them were dissenters, most Of them
were sinners and some OF them repro
bates. but he was not going to abate
one 1.-THE OF the demands the church
made. A mother wanted her babe
haptised. The ancient rubric said a
babe must be baptised by immersion
unless il was weak, but the little
Georgian was a lusty fellow and his
parents could not plead that he was
not able TO take the immersion, and
as they did not want II he was not
christened TIN Mr.. Whitfield came.
Some OF the people were a little bet
ter on as 10 footgear than others. and
when a stout lad went barefooted TO
school and was ridiculed the brave
parson took on his shoes and walked