home once more. And, oh,
what a happy time they had! Mr. Wesley was getting very old, and he was
so proud to have his "boys" with him again. He talked very seriously to
John and Charles, and told them he did not at all approve of their way
of living. He said he was sure God never meant us to fast so much as to
injure our health, or to shut ourselves up and be so much alone. Jesus
said: "Let your light shine _before men_;" our light should be where
_everybody_ can see it. I am sure old Mr. Wesley was right.

A few months later, and the brothers were again at Wroote, standing by
the bedside of their dying father. "I am very near heaven," he said, as
they gathered round him, "Good-bye!" And "father" went Home.

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CHAPTER X.

A corner in America.--Wanted a missionary.--Mrs.
Wesley gives up her sons to God's work.--At the
dock-side.--The good ship "Simmonds."--Life on
board.--A terrible storm.--The German Christians
who were not afraid.

IF you look on your map of the United States, you will see in the
south-east, a little corner called Georgia. It was to this place that a
number of poor people from England had emigrated; people who had been
cruelly treated in prison, and on being released had no work to do and
nowhere to go. Some kind Christian gentlemen collected money to help
them to get to Georgia, where they could have plenty of work and plenty
of food. A number of poor Germans, too, who had been persecuted in their
own country because of their religion, also went out to this place where
they could worship God as they chose, without fear of cruel treatment.

When people are driven out of their own country like this, they are
called "exiles," and though this little band of exiles found work and
food, and freedom to worship God in the new land, they had no minister.
So the gentlemen who had raised the money, and who knew what brave, good
men Mr. John and Mr. Charles Wesley were, asked them if they would go
out and minister to these poor people in Georgia. "You are just the men
to comfort and teach them," they said.

Then, too, a number of Indians lived in Georgia, and they wanted to be
friends with the white strangers, and General Oglethorpe and Dr. Burton,
the gentlemen I mentioned, thought it would be a good opportunity to
preach the gospel to them.

When Mr. John Wesley was first asked, he said: "No, I cannot go, I