Wesley Corpus

Sun. 10.--After preaching at seven, in an house crowded within and without, I left this comfortable place, and went back to Cork. I had a desire to preach abroad in the evening; but the weather would not permit. When the society met, a person hugely daubed with gold thrust violently in. By his appearance I should have judged him to be some Nobleman. But I was afterward informed it was Dr. Taylor. On Monday and Tuesday I took an account of the society, and was grieved, though not surprised, to find such a declen sion. I left two hundred and ninety members: I find only two hundred and thirty-three. And what will the end be, unless those that remain learn to bear one another's burdens? Adding to those in the other provinces about six hundred who are in Munster, the whole number is a little above two thousand. Our evening congregations this week were smaller than usual; as the Gentry were engaged in a more important affair. A company of players were in town. However, many of them came on Friday; for a watch-night was newer to them than a comedy. Mon. 18.--Being advised from Dublin that Captain Dansey (with whom I desired to sail) would sail on the 19th or 20th, I took horse early, and reached Clonmell between five and six in the evening. I took my usual stand near the barrack-gate; and had abundantly more than my usual congregation, as it was the Assize week, so that the town was extremely full of Gentry as well as common people. Tues. 19.--We had many light showers, which cooled the air and laid the dust. We dined at Kilkenny, noble in ruins: I see no such remains of magnificence in the kingdom. The late Duke of Ormond’s house, on the top of a rock, hanging over the river, the ancient cathedral, and what is left of many grand buildings, yield a melancholy pleasure. Thus A little power, a little sway, A sun-beam in a winter's day, Is all the great and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave : We lodged at Castle-Dermot, and reached Dublin on Wednesday, 20; but Captain Dansey was not to sail this 14 REv. J. weslEY’s [Aug. 1760. week.