Wesley Corpus

Tues. 9.--I desired as many of our brethren as could, to observe Wednesday, the 10th, as a day of fasting and prayer. Just as we were praying for him, (we were afterward informed,) he left off raving, and broke out, “* Lord, how long? Wilt thou hide thy face for ever? All my bones are broken. ‘Thy wrath lieth heavy upon me: I am in the lowest darkness, and in the deep. But the Lord will hear: he will rebuke thee, thou unclean spirit: he will deliver me out of thy hands.” Many such expressions he uttered for about half an hour, and then raved again. Thur. 11.--He was more outrageous than ever. But while we were praying for him in the evening, he sunk down into a sound sleep, which continued for ten hours; nor was he furious any more, although the time of deliverance was not come. Sat. 13.--I preached once more at St. Just, on the first stone of their new society house. In the evening, as we rode to Camborne, John Pearce, of Redruth, was mentioning a remarkable incident :--While he lived at Helstone, as their class was meeting one evening, one of them cried, with an uncommon tone, ‘“ We will not stay here : we will go to” such a house, which was in a quite different part of the town. They all rose immediately, and went; though neither they nor she knew why. Presently after they were gone, a spark fell into a barrel of gunpowder, which was in the next room, and blew up the house. So did God preserve those who trusted in him, and prevent the blasphemy of the multitude.