CHAPTER XVIII. 



But for such proof as the nature of the thing allows, I appeal to 

 ray manner of life which hath been from the beginning. Ye who 

 have seen it (and not with a friendly eye), have ye ever seen any 

 thing like the love of gain therein ? Ye of Savannah and Frederica, 

 among whom God afterward proved me, and showed me what was 

 in my heart, what gain did I seek among you ? Of whom did I 

 take any thing? Or whose food or apparel did I covet (for silver 

 or gold had ye none, no more than I myself for many months), even 

 when I was in hunger and nakedness? Ye yourselves and the God 

 and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ know that I lie not. But sup- 

 pose the balance on the other side — let me ask you one plain ques- 

 tion : For what gain (setting conscience aside) will you be obliged 

 to act thus? to live exactly as I do? For what price will you 

 preach (and that with all your might — not in an easy, indolent, fash- 

 ionable way) eighteen or nineteen times every week ; and this 

 throughout the year? What shall I give you to travel seven or 

 eight hundred miles, in all weathers, every two or three months? 

 For what salary will you abstain from all other diversions than the 

 doing good and the praising God ? I am mistaken if you would not 

 prefer strangling to such a life, even with thousands of gold and 



Silver? (John Wesley.) 



THE second American Conference, in 1774, agreed 

 to the following particulars : 



1. Every preacher who is received into full connection is to have 

 the use and property of his horse, which any of the circuits may 

 furnish him with. 



2. Every preacher to be allowed six pounds Pennsylvania cur- 

 rency (sixteen dollars) per quarter, and his traveling charges be- 

 sides (sixty-four dollars per year). 



3. For every assistant to make a general collection at Easter, in 



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