Wesley Corpus

5.--About eight I preached at Ormiston, twelve miles from Edinburgh. The House being small, Istood in the street, and proclaimed “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The congregation behaved with the utmost decency. So did that on the Castle-Hill in Edinburgh, at noon; though I strongly insisted, that God “ now commandeth all men every where to repent.” In the evening the House was throughly filled; and many seemed deeply affected. I do not wonder that Satan, had 18 REv. J. Wesley’s [June, 1774. it been in his power, would have had me otherwise employed this day. Wed. 8.--I took my leave of our affectionate friends, and in the evening preached at Dunbar. Thursday, 9. The wind being high, I preached in the Court-House at Alnwick; but it was intolerably hot. Friday, 10. About eleven I preached in the little Square, adjoining to the preaching house in Morpeth. In the evening I preached at Newcastle; and in the morning, Saturday, 11, set out for the Dales. About noon I preached at Wolsingham, and in the evening near the preaching-house in Weardale. Sun. 12.--The rain drove us into the House, both morning and afternoon. Afterwards I met the poor remains of the select society; but neither of my two lovely children, neither Peggy Spence nor Sally Blackburn, were there. Indeed a whole row of such I had seen before ; but three in four of them were now as careless as ever. In the evening I sent for Peggy Spence and Sally Blackburn. Peggy came, and I found she had well nigh regained her ground, walking in the light, and having a lively hope of recovering all that she had lost. Sally flatly refused to come, and then ran out of doors. Being found at length, after a flood of tears, she was brought almost by force. But I could not get one look, and hardly a word, from her. She seemed to have no hope left: Yet she is not out of God’s reach. I now inquired into the causes of that grievous decay in the vast work of God, which was here two years since; and I found several causes had concurred: 1. Not one of the Preachers that succeeded was capable of being a nursing-fatherto the new-born children: 2.