Wesley Corpus

Afterwards I took a survey of the Danish mount near the town; the first I have seen, surrounded with a triple ditch; but it is not either so high or so large as that near Dundee. Is it not strange, that the Irish, as well as the Scots, should so soon have driven out those merciless robbers who defied all the strength of England for so long a time? Saturday, 14. I May, 1785.] JOURNAL. 307 found a far greater curiosity, a large Druidical temple. I judged by my eye, that it was not less than a hundred yards in diameter; and it was, if I remember right, full as entire as Stonehenge, or that at Stanton-Drew. How our ancestors could bring or even heave these enormous stones, what modern can comprehend? In the evening we found many of our old friends at Limerick were removed to Abraham’s bosom. MAY 15. (Being Whit Sunday.) The Service at the cathedral began at eleven, and lasted till three. It concluded a little sooner, by my assist ing at the Lord's Supper, at the request of the Clergymen. Between five and six, I took my stand near the Custom-House, amidst an innumerable multitude of people; but they were Wild as the untaught Indian's brood. They made such a wonderful noise, that I judged it best to give them the ground, and retire to our own House. Mon day, 16. I restored the select society, which had been quite neglected. In the evening I earnestly exhorted all our brethren to set out again in the good old way; and to run with patience the race that is set before them. Tues. 17.--In my way to Gort, I was met by some of our brethren of Killchrist, a village eight miles beyond it, giving me an invitation from Colonel Pearse, to lodge at his house. He sent me to Killchrist in one of his own carriages. There I found a large number of plain people, to whom I preached in the yard. Thence I returned to the Colonel's; but the house being full of genteel company, I was as out of my element; there being no room to talk upon the only subject which deserves the attention of a rational creature. Wed.