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epresentative for the upper class culture from England. Itwas no wonder that there was a collision between theestablished culture from England, and the young fightingraw material that built up the colonies in Georgia. Therewas also at the same time a collision between the HighChurch State Religion from England and a non- conformistChurch that had fled from the stiffness in England to theFree Church tradition in America.It was not easy to be John Wesley in Georgia inthe year 1735. It was that year that the Wesley brotherssailed over to Georgia in America with the ship “TheSimmonds”. It was in the middle of October 1735, that theysailed from England. John Wesley learnt German so that hecould speak to the 26 moravians among the passengers.During the voyage John taught the Germans English. Hecould himself already speak Latin, French and Italian. OnSaturday the 18 th of October 1735 he baptized, AmbrosiusTackner, a 30- year old man, who had only been baptizedby a layman. Tackner would now like to be baptized by aPriest.THE WORLDS GREATEST LOVE STORIESIn “The Star” Monday 7 th July 1958 there was aNewspaper article number 2 in a series concerning theworlds greatest love stories. The named article concernsJohn Wesley. Anthony Praga says in his article with theheading: “Love was torture for John Wesley”. Wesleycame in the series in company with Napoleon´ s love lettersto Josephine, these letters are presented in number three inthe series.75