Wesley Corpus

Surely this time will not soon be forgotten. Will it not appear in the annals of etermity? Mon. 18.--I set out early, and reached Wooler about four in the afternoon. Some friends from Newcastle met me here, and took me in a chaise to Whittingham. Tuesday, 19. After preaching about noon at Morpeth, we went on to Newcastle. The fire had not gone out since I was here. I felt it as soon as I began to speak; and so, it seems, did the whole congregation. At five in the morning the same spirit was in the midst of us, as well as at seven in the evening; but most of all at the Fell, while I was applying those words, “Believe, and thou shalt be saved.” Thur. 21.--Leaving this house of God, I rode to Carlisle. The day was extremely sultry, so that I was faint and feverish in the evening. However, the next day I got well to Whitehaven. What has continually hurt this poor people is offence. I found the society now all in confusion because a woman had scolded with her neighbour, and another stole a two-penny loaf. I talked largely with those who had been most offended; and they stood reproved. Sunday, 24. About seven I preached at the Gins, and the people flocked together from all quarters. The want of field-preaching has been one cause of deadness here. I do not find any great increase of the work of God without it. If ever this is laid aside, I expect the whole work will gradually die away. Mon. 25.--I rode by Keswick to Kendal. The clouds shaded us most of the way, and the wind was just in our face; other wise we should scarce have been able to bear the heat. A few years ago the fields here were whiteforthe harvest; but the poor people have since been so harassed by Seceders, and disputers of every kind, that they are dry and dead as stones; yet I think some of them felt the power of God this evening; and can he not, “out of these stones, raise up children unto Abraham ?” Tues. 26.--I preached abroad at five; and, I believe, not in vain. Between nine and ten we reached Black-Burton, where there was a general awakening till the jars between Mr. Ingham and Allan laid the people asleep again.