Wesley Corpus

Immediately after preaching we set out. How is the face of this country changed in a few years It was, twenty years ago, dreary enough; but is now as a pleasant garden. But what is most remarkable, is the bridge which connects the two mountains, the Peas, together; one of the noblest works in Great Britain; unless you would except the bridge at Edin burgh, which lies directly across the Cowgate: So that one street (a thing not heard of before) runs under another. 420 REV. J. W. ESLEY’s [May, 1788. About noon we came to Berwick-upon-Tweed; but the town being all in a hurry, on occasion of the fair, so that I could not conveniently preach in the market-house, I was glad that Mr. Atcheson, the Presbyterian Minister, offered me the use of his chapel. It was a large commodious place. Several of his hear ers attended; to whom I spoke exceeding plain, in the evening, on 1 Cor. xii. 3; and in the morning, on Isaiah lix. 1-3. Sat. 24.--About one we reached Alnwick. I was a little sur prised at the new preaching-house, (in which I preached in the evening,) exactly resembling the meeting-house we hireat Brent ford. Had they no eyes? Or had they never seen any English House? But the scarecrow must now stand without remedy. Sun. 25.-This was the day on which all the Nonjuring con gregations in Scotland began, by common agreement, to pray in all their public worship for King George and his family. I preached at nine, at two, and at half-past five; the last time on the Gospel for the day, (the history of Dives and Lazarus,) with much enlargement of spirit. After preaching at five in the morning, on Matt. xxvi., and taking a solemn leave of the con gregation, I went on to Morpeth; but was informed the Town Hall was totally engaged; the lower part, by a company of players; the upper, by a dancing-master. However, the latter did scruple the having his right: So I preached to the largest congregation I ever saw there. And our Lord seemed to Dart into all the melting power Of love, and make the mountains flow. It was indeed a wonderful season, such as we had scarce had before since we left Bristol. In the evening I preached at Newcastle, to such a congregation as was never there before.