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EMBARKS FOR GEORGIA. He embarked for Savannah, Geor gia, some time in the latter part of December, 1737, but was hindered by contrary winds, etc., so that the vessel only got out of the Downs, January 29, 1738. John Wesley, returning from Georgia, entered the Downs the day after Whitefield sailed out, thus the friends missed each other.
ing and card-playing were the usual occupations of this motley company. By degrees, through his evident sin cerity, patience and tact, he won them over, so that the captain of the ship invited him to have “public service and expounding twice a day in the great cabin.” . Such advances had been made by the time the ship sailed from Gibral-
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The company on shipboard was far tar, where Whitefield preached to the from agreeable, in one sense. “The garrison several times, that the cap- ship was full of soldiers, and there tain of the soldiers, to save White- were nearly twenty women among field trouble, proposed to gather his them. The captains, both of the sol- men on deck morning and evening by diers and sailors, with the surgeon, beat of drum, that Whitefield might and a young cadet, gave him soon to preach to them. Whitefield accord- understand, that they looked upon him ingly .did so, the captain of the ship as an impostor, and at first they standing on one side of him and the treated him as such.” Cursing, swear- captain of the soldiers standing on the
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