The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . nrying to Xt^w York, Connnissary \escy re-Iused him liie use of Trinity Church ; but tiie undeterred evangelist Tlic two Firat IurU ol Lilo, etc., p. 95. Work^, in., p. -104. MISSIUNAKIKS OK TIIK CHURCH IN GEOKOIA. 351 proncliod fo lliousnnds in tlic fields and in ollior jilacps of worshiptrccly oHcrid for his use. On liis Journcyinjis h(^ iiciilcctcd no oppor-tunity, in <iiia(lifs or elsewhere, to j)roelaini tho misoarehahlc riehesofChrist, and, altliouiili liis held preaehin_<j; cost him the eonntonanco andsu])p()rt of man
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . nrying to Xt^w York, Connnissary \escy re-Iused him liie use of Trinity Church ; but tiie undeterred evangelist Tlic two Firat IurU ol Lilo, etc., p. 95. Work^, in., p. -104. MISSIUNAKIKS OK TIIK CHURCH IN GEOKOIA. 351 proncliod fo lliousnnds in tlic fields and in ollior jilacps of worshiptrccly oHcrid for his use. On liis Journcyinjis h(^ iiciilcctcd no oppor-tunity, in <iiia(lifs or elsewhere, to j)roelaini tho misoarehahlc riehesofChrist, and, altliouiili liis held preaehin_<j; cost him the eonntonanco andsu])p()rt of many of his hrethrcn of the cloth, still others widconuulhim t( their ]inlpils ;in<l their homes, and so oreat werc^ the demandsmade ujion him for sermons that it was not until the 1 Ith of .lanuary,1739/40, that he reached Savannah, and found that his companions,who liail eomo by sea, had arrived three weeks before liim. ISelore his eomini:, Mi. Ilahersham. who, as seliool-master andlay-rt-ader, had done mueh to keep alive both ehnrch and school during. Whitefields absence, had selected the site for the Orphan-house aboutnine miles from Savannah, and had begun to collect material for thefuture orphanage. In the meantime temporary shelter ^^as providedfor the orphans found in the colony, and in connection with thoseinstructions an o))p()rtuni(y was offered for the free education of chil-dren of the colonists. An intirmary was also established, and thesick Avere cared for by an experienced surgeon, without charge. OnLady-day, Tuesday, March 2Pi, the first brick of great-house Maslaid, as Whitefield tells it, with full assurances of faith. It wascalled Bethesda, in the hope that it might be a house of mercy tomany souls. He Mas not, he tells us, disappointed in his hope. Stephens, whose journal gives us so many glimpses of the innerlife of the colony, records, under date of Alarch 11, a notice of a Jourual, p. . 352 HISTORY OF the ajierican episcopai, ciiukch. burial, which
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