Wesley Corpus

Having spent two days comfortably, and I hope usefully, on Monday, 25, I rode over the mountains, close by the sea to Looe, a town near half as large as Islington, which sends four inembers to the parliament ! And each county in North Wales sends one! At Fowey a little company met us, and conducted us to Luxulian. Between six and seven I preached in what was once the court yard of a rich and honourable man ; but he and all his family are in the dust, and his very memory is almost perished. The congregation was large and deeply serious. But it was still larger on Tuesday evening, and several seemed to be cut to the heart. On Wednesday they flocked from all parts. And with what eagerness did they ~eceive the word! Surely many of these last will be first. Thur. 28.--I preached at St. Mewan. I do not remember ever to have seen the yard in which I stood quite full before ; but it would not now contain the congregation: many were obliged to stand without the gate. At five in the morning I preached at St. Austle, to more than our room could contain. In the evening I was at St. Ewe. One or 586 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. _Sept. 1755. two felt the edge of God’s sword, and sunk to the ground ; and indeed it seemed as if God would suffer none to escape him; as if he both heard and answered our prayer,-- Dart into all the melting flame Of love, and make the mountains flow. Sat. 30.--As I was riding through Truro, one stopped my horse, and insisted on my alighting. Presently two or three more of Mr. Walker’s society came in; and we seemed to have been acquainted with each other many years; but I was constrained to break from them. About five I found the congregation waiting in a broad, convenient part of the street, in Redruth. I was extremely weary ; and our friends were so glad to see me, that none once thought of asking me to eat or drink; but my weariness vanished when I began to speak. Surely God is in this place also.