The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley, The Early Journal, 1736-1739

The Journal begins with Charles Wesley's arrival at Frederica, a month after the brothers 'first set foot on American ground,' and closes on November 6, 1756. There are some gaps in the record which a student of Early Methodism deeply regrets, but the Journal is only surpassed by that of his brother as a picture of the difficulties in Georgia, the happy scenes of Whit Week, 1738, and the first days of Evangelical Revival, with the triumphs of the field preaching, the perilsof the mob, and the gradual spread of Methodism over England. In this volume the story is carried to August 27, 1739.

The Rev. Nehemiah Curnock has with great patience and skill deciphered some of the short-hand passages of the Journal, which bring out more clearly the conditions under which the poet's life in Georgia was spent. These passages are placed between square brackets.

Names are given as Charles Wesley wrote them, but blanks have been filled in where fresh information has made this possible.

Methodist Reprint Society, copyright 1977, hardback, 324 pages.