A grand Day--First Sermon--Personal Appearance--Plain Speaking--Work at Oxford--First Visit to London--Letter to Wesley--Unknown Oxford Methodists--At Dummer--Resolves to go to Georgia--Letter to Charles Wesley 47-63 A YEAR OF PREACHING. 1737. Whitefield's Popularity--Pious Clergymen--Dissenting Ministers--Abounding Wickedness--Dr. Isaac Watts--Infidelity-- State of Dissenting Churches--National Impiety--Whitefield at Bristol--In London--At Stonehouse--Crowded Congregations--First Publication--New Birth--Rev. John Hutton--Preaching in London Churches--Opposition--Intercourse with Dissenters--First _extempore_ Prayer--Picture taken--Marvellous commotion-- Charity Schools--"Lecture Churches"--Charles Wesley--Poem on Whitefield--_Weekly Miscellany_--"The Oxford Methodists"-- Whitefield and the Wesleys--Sermons published--The almost Christian--Terrific Preaching--Original Sin--Profane Swearing-- First Farewell Sermon--Ignorant of Justification by Faith only--Preface to "Forms of Prayer" 64-105 FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA. 1738. Collections for Poor of Georgia--Whitefield's Cargo--Notable Day--Embarks for Georgia--At Gravesend--At Margate--At Deal--Wesley's return to England--Eternity of Hell's Torments--At Gibraltar--Publication of Journal--Sermon on Drunkenness--Incidents of the Voyage--Ill of Fever--Farewell Sermon on Shipboard--America--The Indians--Georgia--Carolina-- Emigrants to Georgia--First Services at Savannah--Tomo Chici-- Charles Delamotte--Schools opened--Work at Savannah--The Saltzburghers--Visit to Frederica--Dead Infidel--Departure from Savannah--Reasons for return to England--Storms at Sea--Pastoral Epistle--Lands in Ireland--Bishop Burscough--Archbishop Boulter--Arrives in England--At Manchester--The Wesley Brothers--Churches closed--Hostile Publications--Last Week of 1738 106-154 COMMENCEMENT OF OUTDOOR PREACHING. JANUARY TO AUGUST, 1739.