Wesley Corpus

7.-I preached at Sturton and Gainsborough ; and Thursday, 8, at Scotter, where the poor people walk “in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost.” In the evening I preached at Ouston; and on Friday, 9, went on to Epworth. How true is this trite remark,+ Nescio quá natale solum dulcedine cunctos Ducit, et immemores nom sinet esse suá / The natal soil to all how strangely sweet ! The place where first he breathed who can forget ! In the evening I took my usual stand in the market-place; but had far more than the usual congregation. Saturday, 10. Taking a solitary walk in the churchyard, I felt the truth of, “One generation goeth, and another cometh.” See how the earth drops its inhabitants as the tree drops its leaves | Sun. 11.--About eight I preached at Misterton; and about one at Overthorpe. But good Alice Shadford was not there. She was long “a mother in Israel,” a burning and shining light, an unexceptionable instance of perfect love. After spending near a hundred years on earth, she was some months since transplanted to paradise. So general an out-pouring of God’s Spirit we had seldom known, as we had at Epworth in the afternoon. July, 1779.j JOURNAL. 159 Iike mighty wind, or torrent fierce, It did opposers all o'errun. O that they may no more harden their hearts, lest God should swear, “They shall not enter into my rest l” Mon. 12.-I preached at Crowle; and afterwards searched the church-yard, to find the tomb of Mr. Ashbourn. We could find nothing of it there. At length we found a large flat stone in the church; but the inscription was utterly illegible, the letters being filled up with dust. However, we made a shift to pick it out; and then read as follows:-- %cre Iics tijc 33dup of AND SO L E MNLY BE QUEATHEID THE FOLLOW IN G VERSE S T O HIS “Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: As your fathers did, so do ye.”--Acts vii. 51. “I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.”--Isai. xlix. 4.