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ble mind. He exposed himself with the utmost indif- 

 ference to every change of season and inclemency of 

 weather. Snow and hail, storm and tempest, seemed 

 to have no effect on his iron body. He would fre- 

 quently lie down and sleep at night with his hair 

 frozen to the earth. He would swim over rivers with 

 his clothes on, and then travel on till they were dry, 

 and all without apparent injury to his health. He 

 possessed great presence of mind and intrepidity in 

 danger. Going from Savannah to Frederica, on one 

 occasion, he wrapped himself up in a cloak and went 

 to sleep upon deck of the boat, but in the course of 

 the night he rolled out of his cloak and fell into the 

 sea, so fast asleep that he did not j)erceive where he 

 was till his mouth was full of water, when he swam 

 round the boat and made his escape. When he made 

 his first visit from Savannah to Charleston, South 

 Carolina, the wind was so contrary and violent that 

 he did not reach Port Boyal, a distance of forty miles, 

 till the evening of the third day. The wind was still 

 so high on the afternoon of the next day that when 

 crossing the neck of St. Helena's Sound, the oldest 

 sailor cried out, " Now, every one must take care for 

 himself!" Mr. Wesley said to him, "God will take 

 care for us all!" As soon as the words were spoken 

 the mast fell; all expected every moment the boat to 

 sink, with little prospect of swimming ashore against 

 such wind and sea. "How is it that thou hadst not 

 faith? " God gave command to the wind and seas, and 

 in an hour the party were safe on land. 



It would hardly be expected, perhaps, that a man 

 so abundant in labors and in the midst of privations 

 and perils, as was Mr. W 7 esley, would entertain such 

 an opinion of himself as he expresses in a letter to a 



