At the time of Toeltschig's sojourn in London, however,
he was in the early, troubled stage of his experience,
rejoicing in what he had attained through Boehler's influence,
but beset with doubts and fears. And so, as he records in his Journal,
he determined "to retire for a short time into Germany,
where he hoped the conversing with those holy men who were themselves
living witnesses of the full power of faith, and yet able to bear
with those that are weak, would be a means, under God,
of so establishing his soul, that he might go on from faith to faith,
and from strength to strength."
Ingham, meanwhile, informed of Toeltschig's arrival in London,
had hastened "over one hundred and forty miles" to see his friend,
a fact that seems to have touched Toeltschig deeply,
and arranged to go with him to Herrnhut, as they had often planned
while still in Georgia. John Wesley joined them, and the three young men
sailed on June 24th, landing at Rotterdam two days later.
Wesley's Journal does not mention Toeltschig by name,
but on leaving Rotterdam he says, "we were eight in all,
five English and three Germans," and there is no doubt
that Toeltschig went with them to Marienborn to report to Count Zinzendorf,
who was living there during his temporary exile from Herrnhut.
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