Wesley Corpus

Thur. 7.--I called where a child was dying of the small pox, and rescued her from death and the Doctors, who were giving her saffron, &c., to drive them out ! Can any one be so ignorant still? We observed Friday, the 8th, as a day of fasting and prayer, on account of the general want of trade and scarcity of pro visions. The next week I made an end of revising my letters; and from those I had both wrote and received, I could not but Feb. 1773.] JOURNAL, 487 make one remark,-that for above these forty years, of all the friends who were once the most closely united, and afterwards separated from me, every one had separated himself! He left me, not I him. And from both mine and their own letters, the steps whereby they did this are clear and undeniable. Mon. 18.--In my scraps of time this week, I read over “An Account of the European Settlements in America.” But some part of it I cannot receive; I mean, touching the manners of the native Americans: If it be true, that “they all nearly resemble each other,” then, from the knowledge I have of not a few American nations, I must judge a great part of that account to be pure, absolute, romance; and I suspect it to have been transcribed from some papers which I myself read before I embarked for America. Thur. 28.--I buried the remains of poor E.T., of whom, ever since she died, her husband speaks as a most excellent woman, and a most affectionate wife I have known many such instances: Many couples, who while they lived together spoke of each other as mere sinners; but as soon as either was dead, the survivor spake of the deceased as the best creature in the world. Tues. FEBRUARY 2.--Captain Webb preached at the Foundery. I admire the wisdom of God, in still raising up various Preachers, according to the various tastes of men. The Captain is all life and fire: Therefore, although he is not deep or regular, yet many who would not hear a better Preacher flock together to hear him. And many are convinced under his preaching; some justified; a few built up in love. Thur. 4.--I had much conversation with T. M. He said, his printing that wretched book against me, was owing to the pressing instances of Mr.