. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . meta company of Herrn-huters. The calm hu-mility with which theybore all abuse and in-jury heaped upon themand the fortitude withwhich they sang theirsongs in the midst ofa raging storm awak-ened his surprise andadmiration. On hisarrival in Savannah hemet Spangenberg- (§102). When the latterasked him, my broth-er, have you the wit-ness of the Spirit thatyou are a child ofGod? he was terrified and knew not what to answer. After laboring a few years as apreacher in Savannah — to the Indians he never went — he returnedto England. Though his
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . meta company of Herrn-huters. The calm hu-mility with which theybore all abuse and in-jury heaped upon themand the fortitude withwhich they sang theirsongs in the midst ofa raging storm awak-ened his surprise andadmiration. On hisarrival in Savannah hemet Spangenberg- (§102). When the latterasked him, my broth-er, have you the wit-ness of the Spirit thatyou are a child ofGod? he was terrified and knew not what to answer. After laboring a few years as apreacher in Savannah — to the Indians he never went — he returnedto England. Though his work in Georgia was not without goodresults still he says of it later, I went to America to convertothers and was not myself converted. Hitherto he had soughtsalvation through work and not by faith. He now spent some time in London and again met the Herrn-huters through whom he was brought to a still clearer light. Ofhis conversion he writes as follows: In the evening (May 24,1738)I went with a certain reluctance to a religious meeting, where was. John Wesley. 282 THE MODERN ERA read Luthers preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About aquarter before nine, at the description of the change wrought by-God in the soul through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangelywarmed. I felt I did trust Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; andan assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, evenmine, and saved me from the law of sin and death. I at once to pray for those who had persecuted me and despitefully usedme. I then testified publicly before them all of what I now for thefirst time felt in my heart. Ever since his first acquaintance with the Herrnhuters he de-sired to visit their headquarters. In the summer of 1738, hecrossed over to Germany, met Count Zinzendorf, and spent severalweeks at Herrnhut. He was deeply impressed by the Herrnhuterson account of their strong faith, their warm love of Christ and thebrethren, their renunciation of the world, their simple
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