our nation, and I hope they will hear.  But we would not be, made Christians as the Spaniards make Christians.  We would be taught; and then, when we understand all clearly, be baptized."[1] There was good sense in this remark.  They would be informed of the evidences of the truth of Christianity, and have its principles and doctrines explained to them, and its precepts, tendency, and design illustrated; and hence be enabled to adopt it from conviction.  This they would do, when they were made to understand how it was a divine revelation, and saw its effects in the life of its professors.  But the reply of Wesley was not simple enough to be comprehended by him.  It was this; “There is but one,—­He that sitteth in the heaven,—­who is able to teach man wisdom.  Though we are come so far, we know not whether He will please to teach you by us, or no.  If He teaches you, you will learn wisdom; but we can do nothing.”  All the inference which the poor Indian could draw from this was, that he who had come as a religious teacher disclaimed his own abilities, and referred to a divine Instructer, of whom the Mico could know nothing as yet, by whom alone the converting knowledge was to be communicated.

[Footnote 1:  Account of the Settlement of the Saltzburg Emigrants at Ebenezer, in Georgia.  By Philip George Frederic von Reck.  Hamburgh, 1777. 12mo, p. 7.]

Moreover, he had been an observer of the disposition and conduct of those who called themselves Christians; and, at another interview with Wesley, when urged to listen to the doctrines of Christianity, and become a convert, he keenly replied, “Why these are Christians at Savannah!  Those are Christians at Frederica!” Nor was it without good reason that he exclaimed, “Christians drunk!  Christians beat men!  Christians tell lies!  Me no Christian.”

Scenawki, however, had more courtesy.  She presented the Missionaries with two large jars of honey, and one of milk; and invited them to come up to Yamacraw, and teach the children, saying, the honey represented the inclination of the people there, and the milk the need of their children.  What a beautiful illustration of the mode of teaching practised by the Apostle!  “I have fed you with milk, and not with meat;” adapting the instruction to the capacity of those to whom it was imparted, and “as they were able to receive it,” could properly digest it, “and be nourished thereby.”

Other conferences effected little; and as Mrs. Musgrove did not reside at Yamacraw, and could not often assist him as an interpreter; and, perhaps, could not readily make perspicuous in the Indian dialect what was somewhat more mystical than even his English hearers could comprehend, his cherished purposes for the conversion of the Indians seemed to be thwarted.  Besides, the condition of the people at Savannah was such as to require clerical services, and he gave himself wholly to them.