Identifier: 01861476.emory.edu
Title: The illustrated history of Methodism (electronic resource); the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present day. Written in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Lee, James Wideman, 1849-1919 Luccock, Naphtali, 1853-1916 Dixon, James Main, 1856-1933
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: St Louis New York : The Methodist magazine publishing co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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tWalpole, was firmly intrenched in office,Oglethorpe, belonging to the opposition,was out in the cold. He was, therefore,free to throw all his energies into benevo-lent schemes. Bishop Berkeleys abortive attempt tofound a settlement in Bermuda, wherenatives should be trained to evangelizetheir brother Indians, undoubtedly sug-gested to Oglethorpe the possibilities ofcolonization. In 1732 we find him pub-lishing two anonymous tracts, one en-titled An Essay on Plantations, theother, A New and Accurate Account ofthe Provinces of South Carolina andGeorgia. In the latter pamphlet theauthor advances some arguments whichseem to betray his profession. Thewisdom of the Roman state, he re-marks, discharged not only its ungov-ernable distressed multitude, but alsoits emeriti, its soldiers, which had servedlong and well in war, into colonies upon The Illustrated History oe Methodism 61 inquiry, Oglethorpe discovered that thebarbarous treatment meted out to poorCastell was by no means exceptional,
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the frontiers of their empire. Twas bythis policy that they elbowed all thenations round them. Now the trials of a certain distressedmultitude among his fellow-country-men Avere just then particularly arousingOglethorpes sympathies—those who, asdebtors, under the severe laws of therealm, were compelled to wear out amiserable existence in prison. The his-torians of English society, from Fieldingto Dickens, have devoted many movingchapters to this feature of the nationallife. An incident which occurred in theyear 1729 brought the matter home tothe good man. A friend of his namedCastell, an amiable scholar who had pub-lished a work on The Villas of theAncients, was imprisoned for debt; andbeing unwilling to satisfy the exorbitantdemands of the harpy who was then in EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SAVANNAH, ON THR SITE OF THE CHURCH IN WHICH JOHN WKSI.EY PREACHED. and he forced the subject upon the atten-tion of the House of Commons. A com-mittee of fourteen, with himself aschairman, having been appo

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