ing
months being inserted between November and December in that "year of
confusion". By 1582, however, the Julian Calendar had fallen ten days
behind the seasons, so another calculation was made, and Pope Gregory
XIII abolished the Julian Calendar in all Catholic countries, dropped
the dates of ten days from that year, and established the "reformed", or
"Gregorian Calendar". This was adopted in Catholic Germany, in 1583, in
Protestant Germany and Holland, in 1700, but in England not until 1752,
by which time the difference had increased to eleven days. Following the
ancient Jewish custom the Year, for many centuries, began with the 25th
of March, but public sentiment came to favor the 1st of January as
the more appropriate date, and it was gradually adopted. In England,
however, the legal year continued to begin with March 25th, until 1752,
although many people were either using the newer fashion, or indicating
both, and a date might be correctly written in four ways, e.g. January
10th, 1734, old style, legal, January 10th, 1734-5, or January 10th,
1735, old style, popular, and January 21st, 1735, new style, the last
agreeing with the calendar now in general use.

Bishop Nitschmann gives the outline of their religious services on
almost every day, and in the translation which follows these are
generally omitted; in the same way some paragraphs are left out of the
Wesley Journal. Extracts from Dober's and Ingham's Journals are inserted
when they give facts not otherwise noted.

====== 24 Oct. 1735.

Nitschmann's Diary. Oct. 24th, 1735.

I went to the ship, (the 'Simmonds', Captain Cornish).
My heart rejoiced to be once more with the Brethren.
In the evening we held our song service.

(We have all given ourselves to the Lord, and pray that the Saviour may
comfort our hearts with joy, and that we may attain our object, namely,
to call the heathen, to become acquainted with those whom we have not
known and who know us not, and to worship the name of the Lord.--Letter
of Oct. 28.)

====== 25 Oct. 1735.

John Wesley's Journal. Oct. 14th, 1735, (O. S.) Tuesday.

Mr. Benjamin Ingham, of Queen's College, Oxford, Mr. Charles Delamotte,
son of a merchant in London, who had offered himself some days before,
my brother Charles Wesley, and myself, took boat for Gravesend, in order
to embark for Georgia. Our end in leaving our native country was not to
avoid want, (God having given us plenty of temporal blessing