Wesley Corpus

24.--I went on to Scarborough. I think the preaching house here is the most elegant of any square Room which we have in England; and we had as elegant a congregation: But they were as attentive as if they had been Kingswood colliers. Tues. 25.--I visited a poor backslider, who has given great occasion to the enemy to blaspheme. Some time since, he felt a pain in the soles of his feet, then in his legs, his knees, his thighs. Now it has reached his stomach, and begins to affect his head. No medicines have availed at all. I fear he has sinned a sin unto death; a sin which God has determined to punish by death. Fri. 28.--I am seventy-three years old, and far abler to preach than I was at three-and-twenty. What natural means has God used to produce so wonderful an effect? 1. Continual exercise and change of air, by travelling above four thousand miles in a year: 2. Constant rising at four: 3. The ability, if ever I want, to sleep immediately: 4. The never losing a night's sleep in my life: 5. Two violent fevers, and two deep consump tions. These, it is true, were rough medicines; but they were of admirable service; causing my flesh to come again, as the flesh of a little child. May I add, lastly, evenness of temper? I feel and grieve; but, by the grace of God, I fret at nothing. But still “the help that is done upon earth, He doeth it him self.” And this he doeth in answer to many prayers. Mon. JULY 1.--I preached, about eleven, to a numerous and serious congregation at Pocklington. In my way from hence to Malton, Mr. C (a man of sense and veracity) gave me the following account:--His grandfather, Mr. H , he said, about twenty years ago, ploughing up a field, two or three miles from Pocklington, turned up a large stone, under which he per ceived there was a hollow. Digging on, he found, at a small distance, a large, magnificent house. He cleared away the earth; and, going into it, found many spacious rooms. The floors of the lower story were of Mosaic work, exquisitely wrought. Mr. C himself counted sixteen stones within an inch square. Many flocked to see it, from various parts, as long as it stood open: But after some days, Mr.