Quincy,
Wesley's predecessor in the Savannah pastorate, had not yet vacated his house.
Wesley writes, "We had now an opportunity, day by day,
of observing their whole behaviour. For we were in one room with them
from morning to night, unless for the little time I spent in walking.
They were always employed, always cheerful themselves,
and in good humor with one another; they had put away all anger,
and strife, and wrath, and bitterness, and clamor, and evil speaking;
they walked worthy of the vocation wherewith they were called,
and adorned the Gospel of our Lord in all things." The impression thus made
upon John Wesley was lasting, and even during the subsequent years in England,
when differences of every kind arose between him and the Moravians,
and his Journal is full of bitter denunciations of doctrines and practices
which he did not understand, and with which he was not in sympathy,
he now and again interrupts himself to declare, "I can not speak of them
but with tender affection, were it only for the benefits
I have received from them."
An event which occurred on March 10th, is of more than local interest,
in that it is the first unquestioned instance of the exercise
of episcopal functions in the United States.
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