Wesley Corpus

I found likewise what was better still,--a serious, earnest people. There was a remarkable blessing among them, both in the evening and the morning; so that I did not regret the having been wet to the skin in my way to them. Fri. 12.--Having as far as Hyde-Park-Corner to go, I took a coach for part of the way, ordering the man to stop anywhere at the end of Piccadilly next the Haymarket. He stopped exactly at the door of one of our friends, whose mother, above ninety years old, had long desired to see me, though I knew it not. She was exceedingly comforted, and could not tell how to praise God enough for giving her the desire of her soul. We observed Friday, the 19th, as a day of fasting and prayer for our King and country, and the success of the Gospel: And part of the answer immediately followed, in the remarkable increase of believers, and in the strengthening Dec. 1760.] JOURNAL. 29 of those who had before attained that precious faith, “unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness.” Sat. 20.--In the evening I hastened back from Snowsfields, to meet the penitents, (a congregation which I wish always to meet myself) and walked thither again at five in the morning. Blessed be God, I have no reason or pretence to spare myself yet. I preached a charity sermon in West-Street chapel, both morning and afternoon; but many were obliged to go away, finding it impossible to get in. Is it novelty still which draws these from all parts? No; but the mighty power of God. To-day I sent the following letter:-- “To the Editor of Lloyd's Evening Post. “To MR. T. H., alias E. L., &c., &c. “WHAT, my good friend again! Only a little disguised with a new name, and a few scraps of Latin ' I hoped, indeed, you had been pretty well satisfied before; but since you desire to hear a little farther from me, I will add a few words, and endeavour to set our little controversy in a still clearer light. “Last month you publicly attacked the people called Methodists, without either fear or wit. You charged them with ‘madness, enthusiasm, self-contradiction, imposture,’ and what not ! I considered each charge, and, I conceive, refuted it to the satisfaction of all indifferent persons.