Wesley Corpus

Another church, afterwards used in its stead, bears date 1124. A steeple, standing near the cathedral, is thought to have stood thirteen hundred years. What is left of St. Leonard's College is only a heap of ruins. Two Colleges remain. One of them has a tolerable Square; but all the windows are broke, like those of a brothel. We were informed, the students do this before they leave the College. Where are their blessed Governors in the mean time? Are they all fast asleep? The other College is a mean building, but has a handsome library newly erected. In the two Colleges, we learned, were about seventy students; near the same number as at Old-Aberdeen. Those at New Aberdeen are not more numerous: Neither those at Glasgow. In Edinburgh, I suppose there are a hundred. So four Uni versities contain three hundred and ten students | These all come to their several Colleges in November, and return home in May ! So they may study five months in the year, and lounge all the rest O where was the common sense of those who instituted such Colleges? In the English Colleges, every one may reside all the year, as all my pupils did : And I should have thought myself little better than a highwayman, if I had not lectured them every day in the year, but Sundays. We were so long detained at the Passage, that I only reached Edinburgh time enough to give notice of my preach ing the next day. After preaching at Dunbar, Alnwick, and Morpeth, on Saturday, JUNE 1, I reached Newcastle. Mon, 3.−I visited Sunderland, where the society then con 78 Rev. J. w Esley’s [June, 1776. tained three hundred and seventy-two members. Thursday, 6. I preached at Darlington and Barnard-Castle: On Friday, in Teesdale and Weardale. Here many rejoiced with joy un speakable, and seemed determined never to rest till they had recovered that great salvation which they enjoyed some years ago. Saturday, 8. As we rode to Sheep-Hill, we saw and heard at a distance, much thunder, and rain, and lightning. The rain was before and behind, and on each side: But none fell upon us. About six, I preached at Sheep-Hill. It rained hard very near us; but not a drop came upon us. After eight, I reached Newcastle, thoroughly tired. But a night's rest set me up again.