. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... method excited the mirth of several scions of nobilitywho were on board and Oglethorpe opened out on thescoffers thus, Here, you damned pirates, you do notknow these people. They forget more in an hour thanyou ever knew. You take them for tithe-pig parsons,when they are gentlemen of learning and like myself,graduates of Oxford. I am one of them, I ■would haveyou know. I am a religious man and a Methodist, too,and I 11 knock hell out of anybody who, after this,smiles at either my friends or my religion! Long years after Wesley told this stor
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... method excited the mirth of several scions of nobilitywho were on board and Oglethorpe opened out on thescoffers thus, Here, you damned pirates, you do notknow these people. They forget more in an hour thanyou ever knew. You take them for tithe-pig parsons,when they are gentlemen of learning and like myself,graduates of Oxford. I am one of them, I ■would haveyou know. I am a religious man and a Methodist, too,and I 11 knock hell out of anybody who, after this,smiles at either my friends or my religion! Long years after Wesley told this story to illustratethe fact that a man might give an intellectual assentto a religion and yet not have much of it in his Oglethorpe looked upon Methodism as a good thing—cheaper than a police system—and sure to bringgood results. If John Wesley and George W^hitefieldcould convert his colony and all of the Indians roundabout, his work of governing would be much ;J Oglethorpe was a very practical man. 18 GREAT RE FORMER S—Wesley. OHN WESLEY did not con-S>Si ^^^ *^^ Indians, because hecould not find them, they be-ing away on wars with theother tribes. Besides that he^SBSSI^^BpOt^^ could not speak their language3»^P^^^|Ibi^9 ^^^ ^^^ wholly unused to^^V^p^^^P^ their ways. The Indian does^«^^^SP|^8^ ^^S not unbosom himself to thosetC^SSa^^Bly^m^ who do not know him, and8j5?5^i^^5j6 the few Indians W^esley sawwere stubbornly set in theidea that they had quite as good a religion as his. AndWesley was persuaded that probably they the city of Savannah there were just five hundredand eighteen people when John Wesley was half of these were degenerate sons of aristo-crats, ex-convicts, soldiers of fortune and religiousenthusiasts—the rest were plain, every-day folk S«»Pioneer people are too intent on maintaining life to gointo the abstrusities of either ethics or soon saw^ that his powers demanded a widerfield d^ d<^ The
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