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boat. In the night we made a fire on the shore. A little after mid- 

 night we prayed with the negroes, took boat again, and reached 

 Savannah the next day, where I had a joyful meeting with my dear 

 friends who had arrived three weeks before. 



Tims, after a journey of five months' duration, 

 Y^hitefield once more reached his parish in America, 

 Januaiy 11, 1740. It seemed a strange thing for him 

 to send the rest of his company by ship, and for him- 

 self and William Seward and others to travel to the 

 same place through primeval forests, uncultivated 

 plains, and miasmal swamps; but in these colonial 

 wanderings he made the acquaintance of ministers 

 and people which affected the whole course of his 

 after-life. 



William Stephens, in his journal of proceedings in 

 Georgia, says: 



January 13, 1710. Mr. Whitefield's name, which of late has 

 made so much noise in England, could not fail in drawing all sorts 

 of people to the Church. Botli morning and evening he made justi- 

 fication by faith only the subject of his discourse, which he pressed 

 home with great energy, denouncing anathemas on all such as taught 

 otherwise. 



January 20. Mr. Whitefield read prayers at seven ; again at ten, 

 with a sermon ; again at three, with a sermon ; a lecture at seven, 

 besides the sacrament after the second morning service, when he ad- 

 ministered to between thirty and forty. Both the sermons were on 

 justification and regeneration. I hope for one on good works before 

 long. 



Again, Mr. Stephens writes: 



June 22, 1740. Mr. Whitefield always prays and preaches extem- 

 pore. For some time past he has laid aside his surplice, and has 

 managed to get justification by faith and the new birth into every 

 sermon. 



After spending seventeen days in the southern part 

 of the province, during which he preached five ser- 

 mons to the congregation of the Eev. Mr. McLeod, at 



