In the afternoon, David Nitschmann,
Bishop of the Germans, and two others, began to learn English.
O may we be, not only of one tongue, but of one mind and of one heart.
====== 1 Nov. 1735.
Nitschmann. Nov. 1st.
The English clergyman began to spend an hour teaching us English.
In the early service we read concerning new life in the soul;
the preceding night was blessed to me, and the Saviour was near.
At the evening service we spoke of earnest prayer and its answer.
(David Nitschmann, in the presence of all the members,
formally installed certain of our members in office, --
David Tanneberger as overseer, Dober as teacher and monitor,
Seybold as nurse for the brethren, and Mrs. Dober as nurse for the sisters.
-- Dober's Diary.)
(We have arranged that one of us shall watch each night,
of which Mr. Oglethorpe approves. -- Letter of Oct. 18th.)
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Wesley. Oct. 21st.
We sailed from Gravesend. When we were past about half the Goodwin Sands
the wind suddenly failed. Had the calm continued till ebb,
the ship had probably been lost. But the gale sprung up again in an hour,
and carried us into the Downs.
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