Toeltschig answered "I am VERY glad," a short sentence which spoke volumes!
Wesley, Ingham and Toeltschig.
During the days which elapsed between his arrival in London
and the meeting of the Trustees, Toeltschig had many interviews
with those who had been "awakened" by the two companies of Moravian colonists,
by Count Zinzendorf, and by Peter Boehler and George Schulius.
The last two were even then at Portsmouth, on their way to America,
and the interest caused by their visit was very manifest.
John and Charles Wesley had been particularly attracted to Boehler,
the former especially finding great relief in laying
his many spiritual perplexities before him. Wesley complained
that when he conversed with Spangenberg in Georgia,
and they could not agree on any point, Spangenberg would drop the subject
and refuse to discuss it further, but in Boehler he found
a clearness of argument, and power of persuasion which convinced
without irritating him.
Having passed through many stages with the guidance, sympathy,
and encouragement of Boehler, Wesley at last found the assurance of salvation
he had sought for so many years, and three weeks after Boehler left London,
he records that at a meeting of their society "I felt I did trust in Christ,
Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me
that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me
from the law of sin and death.
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