would undertake; for which they desired and would receive no
pay, saying it was good for their proud hearts, and their loving Saviour
had done more for them. And every day had given them occasion of showing a
meekness which no injury could move. If they were pushed, struck, or
thrown down, they rose again and went away; but no complaint was found in
their mouth. There was now an opportunity of trying whether they were
delivered from the spirit of fear, as well as from that of pride, anger,
and revenge. In the midst of the psalm wherewith their service began, the
sea broke over, split the mainsail in pieces, covered the ship, and poured
in between the decks as if the great deep had already swallowed us up. A
terrible screaming began among the English. The Germans calmly sung on. I
asked one of them afterward, 'Were you not afraid?' He answered, 'I thank
God, no,' I asked, 'But were not your women and children afraid?' He
replied mildly, 'No; our women and children are not afraid to die.' "(371)

Upon arriving in Savannah, Wesley for a short time abode with the
Moravians, and was deeply impressed with their Christian deportment. Of
one of their religious services, in striking contrast to the lifeless
formalism of the Church of England, he wrote: "The great simplicity as
well as solemnity of the whole almost made me forget the seventeen hundred
years between, and imagine myself in one of those assemblies where form
and state were not; but Paul, the tent-maker, or Peter, the fisherman,
presided; yet with the demonstration of the Spirit and of power."(372)

On his return to England, Wesley, under the instruction of a Moravian
preacher, arrived at a clearer understanding of Bible faith. He was
convinced that he must renounce all dependence upon his own works for
salvation, and must trust wholly to the "Lamb of God that taketh away the
sin of the world." At a meeting of the Moravian society in London, a
statement was read from Luther, describing the change which the Spirit of
God works in the heart of the believer. As Wesley listened, faith was
kindled in his soul. "I felt my heart strangely warmed," he says. "I felt
I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation: and an assurance was
given me, that He had taken away _my_ sins, even _mine_, and saved _me_
from the law of sin and death."(373)

Through long years of wearisome and comfortless striving,--years of
rigorous self-denial, of reproach and humiliation,--Wesley had s