Wesley Corpus

Above twenty years she has been a Class and a Band Leader, and of very eminent use. Ten months since she was accused of drunkenness, and of revealing the secret of her friend. Being informed of this, I wrote to Norwich, (as I then believed the charge,) that she must be no longer a Leader, either of a band or a class. The Preacher told her further, that, in his judg ment, she was unfit to be a member of the society. Upon this she gave up her ticket, together with the band and her class papers. Immediately all her friends (of whom she seemed to have a large number) forsook her at once. No one knew her, or spoke to her. She was as a dead thing out of mind On making a more particular inquiry, I found that Mrs. W (formerly a common woman) had revealed her own secret, to Dr. Hunt, and twenty people besides. So the first accusation vanished into air. As to the second, I verily believe, the drunkenness with which she was charged, was, in reality, the falling down in a fit. So we have thrown away one of the most useful Leaders we ever had, for these wonderful reasons ! Wed. 29.--I crossed over to Lynn, and found things much better than I expected. The behaviour of Mr. G. , which one would have imagined would have done much harm, had rather dome good. People in general cried, “Let that bad man go, they will do better without him.” And the House was sufficiently crowded with serious hearers. November 1. I returned to London. In the two following weeks I visited the classes both in London and the neighbouring societies. Sunday, 16. Being much importuned, I preached in the evening at Mr. Maxfield's chapel. But I dare not do so again, as it cannot contain one third of that congregation at the new chapel. Mon. 17.-I preached at Sevenoaks, and on Tuesday, 18, at Mount-Ephraim, near Tunbridge-Wells. Wednesday, 19, I came once more to the lovely family at Shoreham. A little longer that vesserable old man is permitted to remain here, that the flock may not be scattered. When I was at Sevenoaks I made an odd remark. In the year 1769, I weighed an hundred and twenty-two pounds. In 1783, I weighed not a pound more or less.