Wesley Corpus

And so you will, ina little time,--if you are good. If you are good, when your body dies, your soul will go up and want nothing, and have whatever you can desire. No one will beat or hurt you there. You will never be sick. You will never be sorry any nore, nor afraid of any thing. I can’t tell you, I don’t know how happy you will be; for you will be with God.” May, 1737.] _ REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 37 The attention with which this poor creature listened to instruction is inéxpressible. The next day she remembered all, readily answered every question ; and said, she would ask Him that made her, to show her how to be good. Sun. 24.--I preached twice at Ponpon chapel, on the thirteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians. O how will even those men of Carolina who come eight, ten, or twelve miles to hear the Gospel, rise in judgment against those who hear it not, when it is oreached at their own doors ! % Prec Wed. 27.--I came to Mr. Belinger’s plantation at Chulifinny, where the rain kept me till Friday. Here I met with a half Indian, (one that had an Indian mother and a Spanish father,) and several negroes, who were very desirous of instruction. One of them said, “ When J was at Ashley Ferry, I went to church every Sunday; but here we are buried in the woods. Though if there was any church within five or six miles, Iam so lame I cannot walk, but I would crawl thither.” _ Mr. Belinger sent a negro lad with me to Purrysburg, or, rather, to the poor remains of it. O how hath God stretched over this place ‘the lines of confusion, and the stones of emptiness!” Alas for those whose lives were here vilely cast away, through oppression, through divers plagues and troubles! O earth! how long wilt thou hide their blood? How long wilt thou cover thy slain ?