George-Whitefield-Field-Preacher

CHAPTER IV
1738
ROUGH EXPERIENCES IN GEORGIA—SECOND VOYAGE
WHITEFIELD, on his arrival at Savannah, knew
nothing of the circumstances under which his friend
Wesley had left it. The whole story was related to him,
and he wisely determined to act as if nothing of an unhappy
kind had occurred ; he would not even make any record of it
in his journal. Full of loving anxiety to do his work well,
and heartily believing that the gospel he preached could
promote peace and harmony, he never gave a thought to
the unhappy past, in which his friends had, though not
without provocation, received harsh treatment, but began early
and zealously to preach and to teach. At five o'clock on
the morning after his arrival he read public prayers, and
expounded the second lesson to a congregation of seventeen
adults and twenty-five children. Such was the exchange for
crowded churches in England !
In the afternoon of the same day, Mr. Causton, Wesley's
keen enemy, sent word that he and the magistrates would
wait upon Whitefield, but Whitefield chose to wait upon them,
a courtesy which could hardly fail to prepare the way for
kindly intercourse. The interview was marked by much
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