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the same time the particular advantages which one 

 might reasonably expect would further his spiritual 

 progress by going among the Indians — leaving with 

 him at the end of the conversation several letters of 

 Governor Oglethorpe relating to that race of people, 

 their manner of living, their customs, and their great 

 expectation of having a white man to come among them 

 to teach them wisdom. Mr. Ingham began now to 

 pray more frequently and fervently that God would 

 be pleased to direct him to do his will. With Mr. 

 Wesley there came to London his brother Charles, his 

 brother-in-law Wesley Hall, and Matthew Salmon, 

 in person, in natural temper, and in piety one of the 

 loveliest young men of the Holy Club, to receive ordi- 

 nation from the Bishop of London, and to be in readi- 

 ness to embark with him on the 14th of October. 

 With these Mr. Ingham frequently conversed, and in 

 a second interview with Mr. Wesley alone one night, he 

 found his heart so moved that almost involuntarily he 

 said to him, " If neither Mr. Hall nor Mr. Salmon go 

 along with you, I will go." It is remarkable that the 

 Psalms, the lessons, and all that he then read or heard, 

 suggested to him that he ought to go. At morning 

 prayers in Westminister Abbey, on Tuesday, October 

 7, 1735, the reading of the tenth chapter of St. Mark 

 made so strong an impression upon him that at the 

 hearing of these words, "And Jesus answered and said, 

 Verily 1 say unto you, There is no man that hath left 

 house, or brethren, or sister, or father, or mother, or 

 wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, 

 but he shall receive a hundred-fold now in this time, 

 houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and 

 children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the 

 world to come eternal life," he determined in his 



