Wesley Corpus

Miller, whether he had any thoughts of perfecting his speaking statue, which had so long lain by. He said he had altered his d2sign; that he intended, if he had life and health, to make June, 1773.] JOURNAL. 499 two, which would not only speak, but sing hymns alternately with an articulate voice; that he had made a trial, and it answered well. But he could not tell when he should finish it, as he had much business of other kinds, and could only give his leisure hours to this. How amazing is it that no man of fortune enables him to give all his time to the work! I preached in the evening at Lisburn. All the time I could spare here was taken up by poor patients. I generally asked, “What remedies have you used?” and was not a little surprised. What has fashion to do with physic? Why, (in Ireland, at least,) almost as much as with head-dress. T'listers, for anything or nothing, were all the fashion when I was in Ireland last. Now the grand fashionable medicine for twenty diseases (who would imagine it?) is mercury sublimate | Why is it not an halter, or a pistol? They would cure a little more speedily. Tues. 15.--I went to dreary Newtown. This place always makes me pensive. Even in Ireland I hardly see anywhere such heaps of ruins as here; and they are considerably increased since I was here before. What a shadow is human greatness! The evening congregation in the new market-house appeared deeply attentive, especially the backsliders; several of whom determined to set out afresh. When I came to Belfast, I learned the real cause of the late insurrections in this neighbourhood. Lord Donegal, the pro prietor of almost the whole country, came hither to give his tenants new leases. But when they came, they found two merchants of the town had taken their farms over their heads; so that multitudes of them, with their wives and children, were turned out to the wide world. It is no wonder that, as their lives were now bitter to them, they should fly out as they did. It is rather a wonder that they did not go much farther. And if they had, who would have been most in fault? Those who were without home, without money, without food for themselves and families?