Wesley Corpus

For five or six days, I think, the weather has been as hot as it is in Georgia. After preach ing, I went on to Exeter with Ralph Mather, then an humble, scriptural Christian. Saturday, 14. I went on to Plymouth-Dock, and in the evening preached in the Square. Sunday, 15. As I could not sleep (an uncommon thing with me) till near two in the morning, my companion was afraid I should not be able to go through the labour of the day; but I knew I did not go a warfare at my own cost. At seven I preached in Mr. Kinsman’s preaching-house, on, “Strive to enter in at the strait gate;” and I think many received the truth in the love thereof. Between one and two I preached in the Tabernacle at Plymouth; and in the evening declared in the Square, to a multitude of people, the nature of that love, without which all we say, know, believe, do, and suffer, profits nothing. Mon. 16.-In the evening I preached at St. Austle; Tuesday, 17, in the Coinage-Hall at Truro; at six, in the main street at Helstone. How changed is this town, since a Methodist Preacher could not ride through it without hazard of his life Wed. 18.--I preached in the Town-Hall in Penzance. It was soon filled from end to end; and it was filled with the Sept. 1773.] JOURNAL. 505 power of God. One would have thought every soul must have bowed down before Him. In the evening I preached at St. Just; Friday, 20, in Penzance and Marazion; and in the evening in the market-place at St. Ives, to the largest congregation I have yet seen in Cornwall. Sat. 21.--I preached in Illogan and at Redruth; Sunday, 22, in St. Agnes Church-town, at eight; about one at Red ruth; and at five, in the amphitheatre at Gwennap. The people both filled it, and covered the ground round about, to a considerable distance. So that, supposing the space to be four-score yards square, and to contain five persons in a square yard, there must be above two-and-thirty thousand people; the largest assembly I ever preached to.