History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . miltedi Thereare also froiu twenty to thirty native assistants in Missions in Asia, whose names are not givenabove. HISTORY OF THE MISSIONS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAF. CHURCH. BY REV. ENOCH MUDGE. CHAPTER I. Introduction. Mr. Wesley. Arrival in America. Return to England. His preaching, and itsresults. First Methodist church in America, 1768. Missions. Hociety formed in 1820, andsanctioned by General Conference. Minion to New Orleans. The missionary operations of the Methodist Episcopal Church are inter-
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . miltedi Thereare also froiu twenty to thirty native assistants in Missions in Asia, whose names are not givenabove. HISTORY OF THE MISSIONS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAF. CHURCH. BY REV. ENOCH MUDGE. CHAPTER I. Introduction. Mr. Wesley. Arrival in America. Return to England. His preaching, and itsresults. First Methodist church in America, 1768. Missions. Hociety formed in 1820, andsanctioned by General Conference. Minion to New Orleans. The missionary operations of the Methodist Episcopal Church are inter-woven in its entire history, from its origin to the present time. Mr. Wesley, the father and founder of Methodism, early adopted thesentiment on which he ever afterwards acted^. The world is my he sought to do good to all mankind. Accordingly, as 1735,he left London to enter on a new and untried path which promised nothingbtit what he and his coadjutors most ardently desired, a more complete de-liverance from the world, and devotedness to )he work of God in HeT. John Wesley. They arrived at Savannah, in Georgia, on the 5th of February, 1736, where General Oglethorpe led them to a rising ground, where they knelt down to give thanks to God. Wesley imoiediatelyentered on his ministry in this moral waste, and soon found an opportunity to speak to the Indians 67 530 METHODIST MISSIONS. the great word of the gospel. The following conversation, held withthem through an interpreter, is extremely interesting, and may be found inhis journal of the events of the time •.-^— Tiiesday, July 20. Five of the Chickasaw Indians (20 of whom hadbeen in Savannah several days,) came to see us, with Mr. Andrews, theirinterpreter. They were all warriors, four of them head men. The twochief were Paustoobee and Mingo Mattaw. Our conference was as fol-lows :— Q. Do you believe there is One above who is over all things ? Paustoobee answered. We believe there are four be
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