Wesley Corpus

Mon. 24.--Calling at Marazion, in my way to Penzance, where I had promised to preach once more, the House was filled in a few minutes, so that I could not refrain from preaching a short sermon; and God was there of a truth. We had a rainy afternoon; so I was obliged to preach in the new preaching-house, considerably the largest, and, in many respects, far the best, in Cornwall. Tues. 25.--I went to St. Ives, and preached, as usual, on one side of the market-place. Well nigh all the town attended, and with all possible seriousness. Surely forty years’ labour has not been in vain here. Wed. 26.-I returned to Redruth, and applied to the great congregation, “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.” I then met the society, and explained at large the rise and nature of Methodism ; and still aver, I have never read or heard of, either in ancient or modern history, any other church which builds on so broad a foundation as the Methodists do; which requires of its members no conformity either in opinions or modes of worship, but barely this one thing, to fear God, and work righteousness. Thur. 27.--We set out early, and reached Truro soon after 470 REv. J. Wesley’s [Sept. 1789. five. I preached at six, to a House full of serious people, on, “Awake, thou that sleepest.” The congregation seemed to be awake. Thence we hasted forward to Port-Isaac. I preached in the evening, in an open part of the town, to almost all the inhabit ants of it. How changed [since the time] when he that invited me durst not take mein, for fear his house should be pulled down Fri. 28.--I preached at nine in our new House at Camel ford, throughly filled, though at a short warning; and at six in the evening, in the new House at Launceston; still too small for the congregation, who seemed exceeding lively. So there is a fair prospect in Cornwall, from Launceston to the Land's End. Saturday, 29. Going through Tavistock, a poor man asked me to preach. I began in about a quarter of an hour, the preaching-house being filled directly; but with so poor a congregation as I have not seen before, for twice seven years. In the evening I preached at Plymouth-Dock, to a very different congregation, but equally serious. Sun.