I  believe  that  when  Wesley  wrote  the  756th  Hymn  (490),  he


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fully  intended  that  the  members  should  be  publicly  received
and  recognised  in  the  manner  just  described.
This  Colony  was  for  a  long  time  a  separate  district  from  the
islands,  under  the  general  superintendency  of  the  Rev.  John
Mortier;  but  in  1844  it  was  joined  to  St.  Vincent  and  the
islands  and  made  into  a  united  district,  under  the  chairmanship
of  the  Rev.  John  Cullingford  and  his  successors,  and  remained
so  till  the  Conference  of  1863,  when  it  was  once  more  separated.
And  now  once  more  the  St  Vincent  and  the  British  Guyana
Districts  are  reunited  and  formed  into  one  large  district,  of
which  the  Rev.  George  Sykes  is  the  chairman  and  general
superintendent,  and  the  Rev.  David  Wright,  Deputy  Chairman
in  Georgetown,  Demerara.
The  ordained  agents,  Missionaries  or  Ministers  in  the  Wes-
leyan  Church,  both  in  British  Guyana  and  in  all  the  West
Indian  Islands,  are  generally  Englishmen  or  respectable  Creoles,
whose  local  experience  makes  them  valuable.  The  late  Rev.
