Wesley Corpus

Sat. 11.--Having no direction to any one in Derry, I was musing what to do, and wishing some one would meet me, and challenge me, though I knew not how it could be, as I never had been there before, nor knew any one in the town. When we drew near it, a gentleman on horseback stopped, asked me my name, and showed me where the Preacher lodged. In the afternoon he accommodated me with a convenient lodging at his own house. So one Mr. Knox is taken away, and another given me in his stead. At seven I preached in the Linen-Hall (a Square so called) to the largest congregation I have seen in the North of Ireland. The waters spread as wide here as they did at Athlone. God grant they may be as deep / Sun. 12.--At eight I preached there again, to an equal May, 1765.] JOURNAL, 211 number of people. About eleven Mr. Knox went with me to church, and led me to a pew where I was placed next the Mayor. What is this? What have I to do with honour? Lord, let me always fear, not desire, it. The Afternoon Service was not over till about half an hour past six. At seven I preached to near all the inhabitants of the city. I think there was scarce one who did not feel that God was there. So general an impression upon a congregation I have hardly seen in any place. Monday, 13, and the following days, I had leisure to go on with the Notes on the Old Testament. But I wondered at the situation I was in, in the midst of rich and honourable men | Whilst this lasts it is well. And it will be well too when any or all of them change their countenance, And wonder at the strange man's face, As one they ne'er had known. Tues. 14.--I wrote the following letter to a friend:-- “DEAR SIR, Londonderry, May 14, 1765. “YoUR manner of writing needs no excuse. I hope you will always write in the same manner. Love is the plainest thing in the world: I know this dictates what you write; and then what need of ceremony? “You have admirably well expressed what I mean by an opinion, contra-distinguished from an essential doctrine.