Wesley Corpus

17.-We had such a mumber of communicants at the cathedral as was scarce ever seen there before. In the evening many were cut to the heart; and, I believe, not a few com forted. A love-feast followed; at which many spoke what God had done for their souls, with all plainness and simplicity. Mon. 18.-I went through a delightful country to Pros perous; a little town, begun five years ago by Captain Brooke, 302 Rev. J. Wesley’s [April, 1785. just returned from the East Indies. Here he introduced every branch of the cotton manufactory, on a most extensive plan. He built two rows of commodious houses, with all convenient appurtenances; and he now employs about two thousand men, women, and children, on the spot, beside near the same number in other places. They had a very large Room, but not near large enough for the congregation. All that got in seemed much affected, as they did likewise at five in the morning. About fifty of them are already joined in a society. Fair blossoms | But what will the fruit be? A remarkable circumstance, we were informed, occurred near this place, about three weeks before:-A poor woman, who owed her landlord fourteen pounds, scraped seven together, which she brought him. But he absolutely refused to take less than the whole, yet detained her in talk till evening. She then set out on a car. When she was within a mile of home, she over took a soldier, who said he was exceedingly tired, and earnestly entreated her to let him ride with her on the car, to which she at length consented. When they came to her house, finding there was no town within two miles, he begged he might sit by the fire-side till morning. She told him she durst not suffer it, as hers was a lone house, and there was none in it but herself and her girl: But at last she agreed he should lie in the girl’s bed, and she and the girl would lie together. At midnight, two men, who had blackened their faces, broke into the house, and demanded her money.