the morning until five, each of us used private prayer. From five to seven we read the Bible together, carefully comparing it (that we might not lean to our own understandings) with the writings of the earliest ages. At seven we breakfasted. At eight were the public prayers. From nine to twelve I usually learned German, and Mr. Delamotte, Greek. My brother writ sermons and Mr. Ingham instructed the children. At twelve we met to give an account to one another what we had done since our last meeting, and what we designed to do before our next. About one we dined. The time from dinner to four we spent in reading to those whom each of us had taken in charge, or in speaking to them severally as need required. At four were the evening prayers; when either the Second Lesson was explained, as it always was in the morning, or the children were catechised, or instructed before the congregation. From five to six we again used private prayer. read in our cabin to two sengers (of whom there were about eighty English on board), and a few more in theirs. the Germans in their Ingham was reading many as desired to hear.

From six to seven I or three of the pas

each of my brethren to At seven I joined with public service, while Mr. between the decks to as At eight we met again,

to exhort and instruct one another. Between nine and ten we went to bed, where neither the roaring of the sea nor the motion of the ship could take away the refreshing sleep which God gave us.1

Without pausing to consider how much more industrious our seafaring priests might have been had they only been initiated in the secrets of modern "efficiency," it may be worth while to look at further indications of Wesley's tendency to treat seriously his commission as a priest in the Church. About a fortnight after reaching Savannah the newly arrived Ordinary jots down the item:

Mary Welch, aged eleven days, was baptized according to the custom of the first Church, and the rule of the Church of England. The child was ill then, but recovered from that hour.

No opportunist comprehension nor diplomatic dread of extremes here. Rules, you see, are rules, and the baby must be im

1 Journal, i. 16.

mersed at baptism. On the same subject there is a further entry :

I was asked to baptize a child of Mr. Parker's, second bailiff of Savannah; but Mrs. Parker told me, "Neither Mr. Parker nor I will consent to its being dipped." I answered, "If you certify that your child is weak, it will suffice, the rubric says, to pour water upon it." She replied, "Nay, the child is not weak, but I am resolved it shall not be dipped." This argument I could not confute. So I went home; and the child was baptized by another person.

Nor had Wesley been in Savannah long before he began dividing the public prayers according to the original appointment of the Church ("still observed in a few places in England"). The morning service began at five. The communion office, with the sermon, at eleven. The evening service at about three. On one occasion the martinet director feels constrained to reprove a young woman, Mrs. Williamson, for misbehaviour.

As she is far from show

ing signs of penitence he repels her from the Lord's Table. The matter is complicated by the fact that the lady, previous to her marriage, had been for some time engrossed in a friendship with Wesley, and only his austere interpretation of priestly duty had stood in the way of a betrothal. The day after repelling Sophia Williamson from the Sacrament, he is arrested for defaming the lady. When brought before the Bailiff of Savannah, Wesley answers that this is an ecclesiastical affair, with which the civil authorities have nothing to do. Then, at the request of the young woman's uncle, he writes his explanations to Sophia :

The rules whereby I proceed are these: "So many as intend to be partakers of the holy Communion, shall signify their names to the Curate, at least some time the day before." This you did not do.

"And if any of those . . . have done any wrong to his neighbours so that the Congregation be thereby offended; the Curate shall .

advertise him, that in any wise he presume not to come to the Lord's Table until he have openly declared himself to have truly repented." If you offer yourself at the Lord's Table on Sunday, I will advertise you (as I have done more than once) wherein you have done wrong: And when you have openly declared yourself to have truly repented, I will administer to you the mysteries of God.