Wesley Corpus

Wed. 13.--I preached at Leith, in the most horrid, dreary Room I have seen in the kingdom. But the next day I found another kind of Room; airy, cheerful, and lightsome; which Mr. Parker undertook to fit up for the purpose, without any delay. Sun. 17.--I had appointed to preach at noon in the Lady’s Walk, at Leith; but being offered the use of the Episcopal chapel, I willingly accepted it, and both read Prayers and preached. Here also the behaviour of the congregation did honour to our Church. Mon. 18.--Dr. Hamilton brought with him Dr. Monro and Dr. Gregory. They satisfied me what my disorder was; and told me there was but one method of cure. Perhaps but one matural one; but I think God has more than one method of healing either the soul or the body. In the evening (the weather being still severe) I preached in the new House at Leith, to a lovely audience, on, “Narrow is the way that leadeth unto life.” Many were present again at 464 REv. J. WESLEY’s [May, 1772. five in the morning. How long have we toiled here almost in vain ' Yet I cannot but hope God will at length have a people even in this place. Wed. 20.--I took my leave of Edinburgh in the morning, by strongly enforcing the Apostle's exhortation, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” I had designed to preach (as usual) at Provost Dixon's, in Haddington, in the way to Dunbar. But the Provost, too, had received light from the “Circular Letter,” and durst not receive those heretics. So we went round by the Marquis of Tweedale’s seat, completely finished within and without. But he that took so much delight in it is gone to his long home, and has left it to one that has no taste or regard for it. So rolls the world away ! In the evening I preached at Dunbar. Thursday, 21. I went to the Bass, seven miles from it, which, in the horrid reign of Charles the Second, was the prison of those venerable men who suffered the loss of all things for a good conscience. It is a high rock surrounded by the sea, two or three miles in circumference, and about two miles from the shore.