426 History of Methodism 



The year following (1819) he was stationed at Sa- 

 vannah, Georgia. He made no objections to the ap- 

 pointment, but went to it not without serious appre- 

 hension on account of the sickliness of the climate. 

 His apprehension, however, quite subsided as the 

 sickly season approached, and he found himself in a 

 field of labor in many respects congenial with his tastes 

 and feelings. He very soon formed an intimate friend- 

 ship with the Kev: Dr. Kollock, of the Presbyterian 

 Church, which was continued until it was terminated 

 by the death of the latter. He writes: 



" From the beginning, my congregations in Savan- 

 nah were very large; and after a short time, the 

 church might have been filled had it been half again 

 as large as it was. Strikingly in contrast with the 

 church in Wilmington in 1813, there were very few 

 negroes who attended Methodist preaching; the pol- 

 icy of the place allowing them separate churches, and 

 the economy and doctrines of the Baptist Church 

 pleasing them better than ours. There was but one 

 side of the gallery appropriated to their use, and it 

 was always the most thinly seated part of the church; 

 while there were two respectably large colored 

 churches in the city, with their pastors, and deacons, 

 and sacraments, and discipline, all of their own. I 

 had, therefore, little access to this portion of the peoj)le, 

 and could do but little for them. Nevertheless, our 

 few members were zealous for their Church, and often 

 had controversies with their Baptist brethren in the 

 neighborhood. Fine specimens of controversy, to be 

 sure, they must have been; and I am tempted to give 

 a sample for the benefit of controversialists in general. 



"I was holding a love -feast for them, and Caesar, 

 an elderly African, spoke with great animation of a 



