Wesley Corpus

Mon. 17.--I went on to Blackburn, which was sufficiently crowded; it being the fair-day. No House would contain the people; so I stood abroad, and expounded that awful scrip ture, “I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.” All were still as night, unless when they sung; then their voices were as the sound of many waters. Tues. 18.--I preached at Padiham, Burnley, Southfield, and Colne. Thursday, 20. I went to Otley, and found God was there, both in the evening, and morning service. Friday, 21. I preached at Yeadon; where the work of God is rapidly going forward. Such a company of loving children I have nowhere seen, but at Oldham, near Manchester. Sunday, 23. I preached in Haworth church in the morning; and Bingley church in the afternoon; but as there were many hundreds that could not get in, Mr. Atmore preached abroad at the same time. In the evening I preached to an huge multitude at Bradford. Surely the people of this town are highly favoured, having both a Vicar and a Curate that preach the truth. Mon. 24.--I preached at Halifax; Tuesday, 25, at ten in Heptonstall church; (the ugliest I know;) and in the afternoon at Todmorden church. How changed are both the place and the people since I saw them first “Lo ! the smiling fields are glad; and the human savages are tame !” Thur. 27.--I preached at Greetland at ten; and at Hudders field in the evening. Friday, 28. I preached at Longwood House; the owners of which are a blessing to all the poor, both in spirituals and temporals. Saturday, 29. The wind drove us in the evening into the Cloth-Hall, in Gildersome ; where I expounded and applied, “The things that are seen are temporal; but the things that are not seen are eternal.” Sun. 30.--I preached in the new House at Dewsbury, as I had intended. I could not preach abroad at Birstal at noon, because of the boisterous wind. I got some shelter from it at Wakefield, while I applied those words in one of the Psalms for the day, “He healeth them that are broken in heart, and giveth medicine to heal their sickness.” On Monday, MAY 1, and Tuesday, I preached at Leeds; on Wednesday, at the church at Horsforth, with a remarkable blessing. Thursday, 4.