Calm Singing on a Sinking Ship

On January 25, 1736, a violent storm tore across the Atlantic and slammed into the small ship carrying John Wesley toward the colony of Georgia. Waves crashed over the deck. The mainsail split apart. Water poured into the hold. English passengers screamed. Wesley, an ordained Anglican minister, gripped the rail and felt raw terror flood his chest. But below deck, a group of Moravian Christians — German refugees who had lost nearly everything to persecution — did something Wesley could not comprehend.…