Wesley Corpus

19.--Mr. Collins assisted me in the morning, so I had an easy day’s work. Monday, 20, and the next day, I read over the King of Sweden’s tract, upon the Balance of Power in Europe. If it be really his, he is certainly one of the most sensible, as well as one of the bravest, Princes in Europe; and if his account be true, what a woman is the Czarina' But still God is over all ! Wed. 22.--I preached once more in Temple church, on, “All things are possible to him that believeth.” Sat. 25.-Mr. Hay, the Presbyterian Minister of Lewens mead meeting, came to desire me to let him have the use of our preaching-house on Sundays, at those hours when we did not use it ourselves, (near ten in the morning and two in the afternoon,) while his House was re-building. To this I willingly consented, and he preached an excellent sermon there the next day at two. I preached at five in the morning to more than the House would well contain. Mon. 27.--I left Bristol; about eleven I preached in the Devizes; and in the evening at Sarum. I do not know that ever I saw the House so crowded before, with high and low, - = of. o - §: Oct. 1790.] JOURNAL. 495 rich and poor: So that I hope we shall again see fruit here also. Wed. 29.--About noon I preached at Winton. The congre gation was larger than usual, and, what was stranger still, seemed not a little affected How long have we cast our bread upon the waters here ! And shall we find it again after many days? In the evening I preached to a crowded and deeply attentive congregation at Portsmouth-Common. Thursday, 30. It being a lovely morning, we went in a wherry, through Cowes harbour, to Newport; one of the pleasantest, neatest, and most elegant towns in the King's dominions. Both the nights I preached here, the preaching-house would by no means contain the congregation. I was likewise well pleased with the poor, plain, artless society. Here, at least, we have not lost our labour. Friday, October 1. We purposed to return to Portsmouth, (about twenty miles,) it being a calm sun shiny morning, in the wherry; but a friend offering us a kind of hoy, we willingly accepted his offer.