In May two questions were asked of Toeltschig, upon the answering of which
there depended more than any one imagined. The Diary says, -- "The 20th,
was Sunday. -- Mr. Ingham asked if we could not recognize and receive him
as our brother; to which I replied, that he did not know us well enough,
nor we him, we must first understand each other better. On the 21st,
Mr. Wesley spoke with me, and asked me the selfsame question.
I said to him that we had seen much of him day by day,
and that it was true that he loved us and we loved him,
but that we did not so quickly admit any one into our Congregation."
Then at his request Toeltschig outlined the Moravian view of conversion,
and the requisites for church-membership.
A few days later Charles Wesley unexpectedly returned from Frederica,
and Oglethorpe sent word that either John Wesley or Ingham should come down
in his place. The latter was by no means anxious to go, --
his former experience had not been agreeable, but the reason
he gave the Moravians was that a number of Indian traders
were soon to visit Savannah, and he was very anxious to see them.
They advised him to be guided by John Wesley's wish, which he agreed to do,
and then found that Wesley had decided to go himself.
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