Wesley Corpus

18.--The passage through the sands being bad for a chaise, I rode on horseback to St. Agnes, where the rain con strained me to preach in the House. As we rode back to Redruth, it poured down amain, and found its way through all our clothes. I was tired when I came in ; but after sleep ing a quarter of an hour all my weariness was gone. Mon. 19.--I joined together once more the select society, who are continually flying asunder, though they all acknow ledge the loss they have sustained thereby. At eleven I met fifty or sixty children. How much depends upon these ! All the hope of the rising generation. Tuesday, 20. In the evening I preached at Helstone, where prejudice is at an end; and all the town, except a few Gentry, willingly hear the word of salvation. Wed. 21.--I preached at Penzance in a gentleman's balcony, which commanded the market-place, to a huge congregation, on, “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.” The word fell heavy, upon high and low, rich and poor. Such an opportunity I never had at Penzance before. Thur. 22.-I preached at six in the market-place at St. Just’s. Two or three well-dressed people walked by, stopped a little, and then went on. So they did two or three times. Had it not been for shame, they might have heard that which is able to save their souls. Fri. 23.−The congregation, both morning and evening, was large; and great was our rejoicing in the Lord. Saturday, 24. In the evening I preached in a meadow at St. Ives, to one of the largest congregations I had seen in the county. Sunday, 25. I met the children; the most difficult part of our office. Sept. 1776.] JOURNAL. 85 About five in the evening I began preaching at Gwennap, to full twenty thousand persons. And they were so commo diously placed, in the calm, still evening, that every one heard distinctly. Tues. 27.-About noon I preached in the piazza, adjoining to the Coinage-Hall in Truro.