Wesley Corpus

These have fallen deeply in love with each other, and never desire to be apart. The bird has learned the bark of the dog, so that few can distinguish them. She is inconsolable when he goes out; and, if he stays out a day or two, she will get up all the bones and scraps she can, and hoard them up for him till he comes back. Wed. 7.--About eleven I preached at Warrington. The chapel was well filled with serious hearers; but the great con gregation was at Liverpool. If those without were added to those within, I believe it would have exceeded even that at Manchester; and surely the power of God was present with them also. Thur. 8.--Such another congregation we had on Thursday, among whom were many that had never been there before. They seemed utterly amazed when I explained, “Now faith is the evidence of things unseen.” I believe many were then convinced; but, alas, how soon will that conviction die away ! Fri. 9.-We went to Wigan, for many years proverbially called, wicked Wigan: But it is not now what it was: The inhabitants in general have taken a softer mould. The House in the evening was more than filled; and all that could get in seemed to be greatly affected, while I strongly applied our Lord's words, “I will; be thou clean.” Saturday, 10. I crossed over to Northwich, and again found the wisdom of judging nothing before the time. The removal, which I used to ascribe to cap ice, I find was the effect of necessity. A wretched man, who had persuaded his father-in-law to give the staff out of his own hands, now abridges him of half his five hundred a year; and has the conscience to take fifty pounds a year out of the remainder, for the board of his son, apprenticed to him. In the evening I preached in the lovely House at Bolton, to one of the loveliest congregations in England; who, by patient continuance in well-doing, have turned scorn and hatred into general esteem and good-will. [Part of the manuscript having been lost, causes a chasm here.]- Mon. MAY 24.--We set out at four, and reached Forglen about moon. The face of the country is much changed for the better since I was here before. Agriculture increases on every side; sc do manufactories, industry, and cleanliness.