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people holy, yet few were inclined to attend divine 

 service at all, and fewer still came to the Lord's Sup- 

 per, or were indeed prepared to receive that holy sac- 

 rament. The upright among them respected him for 

 his disinterestedness and fidelity, but others formed 

 conspiracies to ruin him, and attempts were even 

 made to take him off by assassination. "Mr. Charles 

 Wesley and I," said Mr. Ingham, on leaving Frederica, 

 March 28, " had the happiness of undergoing for the 

 truth's sake the most glorious trial of our whole lives, 

 wherein God enabled us exceedingly to rejoice, and 

 also to behave ourselves throughout with undaunted 

 courage and constancy; for which may we ever love 

 and adore him! The Book of God Avas our support, 

 wherein, as our necessities required, we always met 

 with direction, exhortation, and comfort. Thy word 

 is a lantern to my feet, and a light unto my paths. In 

 God's word will I comfort me." 



On the 15th of May, duties connected with his office 

 of Secretary for Indian Affairs called him to Savannah, 

 and from thence he was sent with important dispatches 

 to England, so that he never again visited Frederica 

 where he had met with such unworthy treatment. 

 "At four," says he, "I set out for Savannah, whither 

 the Indian traders were coming down to meet me and 

 take out licenses. I was overjoyed at my deliverance 

 out of this furnace, and not a little ashamed of myself 

 for being so." 



If while at Frederica the life of Charles Wesley was 

 endangered by attempted assassination, and by fever, 

 at Savannah it was once or twice in equal peril from 

 other causes. July 7, says he: "Between four and 

 five this morning, Mr. Delamotte and I went to the 

 Savannah. We chose this hour for bathing, both for 



