ABSTRACT
On 5 December 1745, Cennick took leave of the Calvinistic Methodists at the Tabernacle. Moravian audiences found that Cennick was ‘very methodistical in his speech and gestures’. When Cennick headed to Germany on Christmas Eve 1745 he was at a low ebb emotionally, having struggled in vain to bring peace and order to the warring parties within Whitefield’s London Tabernacle congregation. The international reach of the Brethren is made evident to Cennick on a number of occasions, including Sunday 26 January, when letters were read out from different parts of the Moravian constellation of missionary outposts. Admission as a Moravian was a lengthy process in Cennick’s lifetime. A number of different genres seem to be blended together, including confessional diary, travelogue, record of pastoral interviews and reflections on the spiritual self-examination he was pursuing with intensity. The physical journeying was part of a spiritual pilgrimage, with its adventures, challenges, and necessary exertion.
