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some of the hearers were profited, but the most were 

 deeply offended. Observing much coolness in the 

 behavior of a friend, on the following Tuesday, he 

 asked him the reason of it. " I like nothing you do," 

 he answered. "All your sermons are satires upon 

 particular persons, therefore I will never hear you 

 more; and all the people are of my mind, for we won't 

 hear ourselves abused. Besides, they say they are 

 Protestants. But as for you, they cannot tell what 

 religion you are of. They never heard of such a religion 

 before.' They do not know what to make of it. And 

 then your private behavior — all the quarrels that have 

 been here since you came have been owing to you. 

 Indeed, there is neither man nor woman in the town 

 who minds a word you say. And so you may preach 

 long enough, but nobody will come to hear you." 

 Mr. Wesley thanked him for his openness. Three 

 additional visits were made to Frederica, with less and 

 less prospect of doing good ; till finally, having beaten 

 the air for some time in this unhappy place, Mr. 

 Wesley took his leave of it, January 26, 1737, content 

 with the thought of seeing it no more. 



His labors, as well as those of his colleagues, were 

 not confined to Frederica and Savannah, but extended 

 to the Saltzburghers at Ebenezer, to the Highlanders 

 at Darien, to the smaller settlements at Highgate, at 

 Hampstead, Thunderbolt, and Skidoway, and wher- 

 ever an emigrant had pitched his tent. The hardships 

 and dangers which he embraced, that he might preach 

 the gospel and do good of every kind to this people, 

 were such as few but himself would have undertaken, 

 or could have endured. For so small a person, he 

 possessed great muscular strength, a sound and vig- 

 orous constitution, with a most ardent and indefatiga- 



