Lesser accounts and miscellaneous material will be found in Clarke’s Memoirs of the Wesley Family; in Gorrie’s Eminent Methodist Ministers; in Larrabee’s Wesley and his Coadjutors; in Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit, v. 94; in J. B. Hagany’s paper in Harper’s Magazine, vol. xix.; in the Galaxy, Feb., 1874; in the Contemporary Review, 1875 and 1876; in Madame Ossoli’s Methodism at the Fountain, in her Art, Literature, and Drama; and in W. M. Punshon’s Lectures.
See also Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, vol. v.; Malcolm’s Index, and numerous references in Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, p. 1398.
Tyerman’s Oxford Methodists uses the material he was forced to leave out of his Life of Wesley.
The portraits of Wesley are numerous. Tyerman gives the earliest known; and it was taken (1743) nearer the time of his Georgia visit than any other which we have. J. C. Smith in his British Mezzotint Portraits enumerates a series (vol. i. pp. 64, 442; ii. 600, 692, 773; iii. 1365; iv. 1545, 1748).—Ed.]
[881] [Cf. the view of the building given in Stevens’ Georgia, p. 352.—Ed.]
[882] [Whitefield’s labors in Georgia are summarized in Tyerman’s Life of Whitefield, London, 1876, with references; and other references are in Poole’s Index to Periodical Lit., p. 1406. Bishop Perry, in his Hist. of the American Episcopal Church, gives the bibliography of Whitefield’s Journals, and a chapter on “The Wesleys and George Whitefield in Georgia.” An account by Bishop Beckwith of the Orphan House is contained in the same work. Foremost among the opponents of Whitefield was Alexander Garden, an Episcopal clergyman in Charleston, who lived in the colony from 1720 to his death in 1756. As the Commissary of the Bishop of London, the constructive ecclesiastical head of the colonies, he brought much power to aid his pronounced opinions, and he prosecuted Whitefield with vigor both in the ecclesiastical court and in the desk. In 1743 Garden reviewed his course in a letter [N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., xxiv. 117] in which he says: “Bad also is the present state of the poor Orphan House in Georgia,—that land of lies, and from which we have no truth but what they can neither disguise nor conceal. The whole Colony is accounted here one great lie, from the beginning to this day; and the Orphan House, you know, is a part of the whole,—a scandalous bubble.”—Ed.]
[883] [Reprinted with editorial annotations and corrections of errors in B. R. Carroll’s Hist. Collections of South Carolina, New York, 1836, vol. i.—Ed.]
[884] [This name is variously spelled Hewatt, Hewat, Hewitt, and Hewit. Cf. Drayton’s View of So. Carolina, p. 175.—Ed.]
[885] [Cf. Sabin, x. no. 42973; Field, Indian Bibliog., no. 972.—Ed.]
[886] [Mr. Geo. R. Gilmer, in an address in 1851 on the Literary Progress of Georgia, said of McCall’s history, “A few actors in the scenes described read it on its first appearance; it was then laid upon the shelf, seldom to be taken from it. Ten years afterwards Bevan collected materials for the purpose of improving what McCall had executed indifferently. He received so little sympathy or aid in his undertaking that he never completed it.”—Ed.]