passengers, including Gen.
Oglethorpe, were on board, but it was not until the afternoon of October
31st, that the 'Simmonds' sailed from Gravesend.

Four Journals.

On the 'Simmonds', as she sailed slowly down the Thames on her way to
Georgia, there were four Englishmen, with whom the Moravians were to
become well acquainted, who were to influence and be influenced by them,
and through whom a great change was to come into the religious history
of England. These were John and Charles Wesley, Benjamin Ingham and
Charles Delamotte. The Wesleys were sons of Samuel Wesley, a clergyman
of the Church of England, and while at the University of Oxford
they, with two companions, had formed a little society for religious
improvement, and by their strict and methodical habits gained the name
of "Methodists"; both brothers had taken orders in the English Church,
and were on their way to Georgia, John to serve as rector at Savannah,
and Charles as Gen. Oglethorpe's private secretary. Benjamin Ingham was
born in Yorkshire, and met the Wesleys at Oxford, where he joined their
Methodist society. He, too, had been ordained in the English Church,
and now, at the age of twenty-three, had yielded to John Wesley's
persuasions, and agreed to go with him "to the Indians". Charles
Delamotte, the son of a London merchant, met the Wesleys at the home of
James Hutton, shortly before they sailed for Georgia, and was so much
impressed by them, and by their object in seeking the New World, that he
decided "to leave the world, and give himself up entirely to God," and
go with them.

For the greater part of his life John Wesley kept a Journal, extracts
from which were given to the public from time to time, and Benjamin
Ingham's account of the voyage to Georgia was also printed, so that the
story of those weeks is quite well known. Nevertheless, something of
interest may be gained by comparing these two Journals with the Diaries
kept by David Nitschmann, Bishop of the Moravians, and John Andrew
Dober, one of the second company.

To avoid confusion it should be noted that the difference of eleven days
in the dates is only apparent, not real, for the Englishmen used the
old style calendar, the Germans employed the modern one. In 46 B. C. the
Roman Calendar had gained two months on the actual seasons, and a more
accurate calculation resulted in the adoption of the so-called "Julian
Calendar" (prepared at the request of Julius Caesar), the two miss