Wesley Corpus

A great awakening has been in this town lately; and many of the most notorious and profligate sinners are entirely changed, and are happy witnesses of the gospel salvation. I preached at Birr in the evening; Wednesday, 14, at Ferbatin and Coolylough; Thursday, 15, in the church at Clare, one of the neatest I have seen in the kingdom; in the evening I preached at Tullamore. I believe all the troopers were present; none of whom was more affected than one who had been a sinner far above his fellows. He was present again at five in the morning, and seemed fully resolved to forsake all sin. Fri. 16.--In the evening, and at ten on Saturday, I preached at Portarlington. On Saturday evening at Mount Mellick, and on Sunday, 18, at nine, and again at twelve, to an artless, earnest, serious people. In the afternoon I went on to Montrath. The rain constrained me to preach in the House; and God was present, both to wound and to heal. Mon. 19.--In the evening I preached in the new House at Kilkenny, to a numerous congregation, almost as genteel and full as unawakened as that at Portarlington. The next evening it was considerably larger, and many seemed to be deeply affected. Even at this fountain-head of wickedness, I trust, God will always have a seed to serve him. Wed. 21.--Some applied to the Quakers at Enniscorthy, for the use of their meeting-house. They refused: So I stood at Hugh M'Laughlin’s door, and both those within and without could hear. I was in doubt which way to take from hence, one of my chaise-horses being much tired; till a gentle man of Ballyrane, near Wexford, told me, if I would preach at his house the next evening, I 2 would meet me on the road with a fresh horse. So I complied, though it was some miles out of the way. Accordingly, he met us on Thursday, 22, April, 1773.] JOURNAL• 491 six or seven miles from Enniscorthy. But we found his mare would not draw at all: So we were forced to go on as we could. I preached in the evening at Ballyrane, to a deeply serious congregation. Early in the morning we set out, and, at two in the afternoon, came to Ballibac-Ferry.