. The new eclectic history of the United States . rch. From 1729 to 1735 he was a teacher at Oxford, where he became theleader of a set of pious young men, who were called Methodists, from theirmethodical mode of living. In 1735, Oglethorpe persuaded Wesley to go toGeorgia as a missionary. His brother Charles and two Oxford friends wentwith him; his chief object was the conversion of the Indians. It was uponthis journey that Wesley met with some Moravian missionaries, and was so im-pressed that, immediately upon his return to England, he commenced the studyof their doctrines, which finally led
. The new eclectic history of the United States . rch. From 1729 to 1735 he was a teacher at Oxford, where he became theleader of a set of pious young men, who were called Methodists, from theirmethodical mode of living. In 1735, Oglethorpe persuaded Wesley to go toGeorgia as a missionary. His brother Charles and two Oxford friends wentwith him; his chief object was the conversion of the Indians. It was uponthis journey that Wesley met with some Moravian missionaries, and was so im-pressed that, immediately upon his return to England, he commenced the studyof their doctrines, which finally led to his founding the Methodist Church. 6. Georce WHITEFIELD (1714-1770), an associate of the Wesleys at Ox-ford, was the most remarkable preacher of his day,— his audiences frequentlynumbering ten thousand persons. He was deeply interested in spreading Meth-odist doctrines, and visited the American colonies no fewer than seven times,preaching wherever he went. His death, from asthma, occurred at Newbury-port, Ma^s. CHAPTER XI. FRENCH A Jesuit Missionary. 160. While Englishmen thus oc-cupied the Atlantic coast, Frenchadventurers were laying the foun-dations of several important Statesin the great central valley, andalong the southern shores of ourcountry. Missionaries, traders, andsoldiers were the three (lasses whoplanted the lily-standard of Franceby the lakes of central New Yorkand the northwest, along the Mis-sissippi and its brain lies, and bythe Mexican Gulf. The Franciscanand Jesuit Fathers were moved by zeal for the souls of thesavage heathen; and the chanting of the Mass in their littlechapels broke the silence of man)- a wilderness far from thedwellings of white men. 161. In 1673 Father Marquette,- with six Frenchmen, madehis way, first of Europeans, to the upper waters of the Missis-sippi, and descended it inboats as far as the mouthof the Arkansas. Mich-igan traces its origin toMarquette, who establishedthe missions of St. Mary andSt. Ignace. At Kaskaski
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