Abstract
How are we to assess the Georgia sojourn of the Wesleys? Lamentably, it has become commonplace to dismiss 1736-1737 as failure. But was it? Was it the ill-starred venture we customarily assume? Or is it to be regarded as a major milestone—a necessary seasoning—for the brothers soon to lead the evangelical revival? Has the propitious moment not come to sound a new and positive note regarding Georgia, and should that word not emanate from Georgia? In Georgia the Wesleys painfully burned their fingers in the fire of reality, yet in the torturing experience, they learned and matured.