Wesley Corpus

At one I preached to the largest congregation I have seen since I left Newcastle. All behaved with deep seriousness but one man, whom | afterward learned to be a Baptist preacher. Just as I was taking horse he came again, and laboured hard to begin a dispute : but having neither time nor strength to spare, I gave him the ground and rode away. The congregation at Epworth was full as large, if not larger than that at Misterton. Among them was a poor grey-headed sinner, a mocker at all religion. But his mocking is past. He was in tears most of the time, and is now “ feeling after God.” Mon. 25.--I left Epworth with great satisfaction, and about one preached at Clayworth. I think none was unmoved, but Michael Fenwick; who fell fast asleep under an adjoining hayrick. From thence we rode to Rotherham. When I came in, | had no strength and no voice left. However, in an hour I was able to preach to the largest congregation that I suppose was ever seen there. Tues. 26.-- I was not able to sit up above two or three hours together. However, IT preached in the morning and evening, and spoke severally to the members of the society. Wed. 2’'7.--I preached about noon at Barley Hall, and in the evening at Sheffield. After spending a short time with the society, I lay down as svon as possible. But I could not sleep before twelve o’clock ; and not long together after. Yet I felt no faintness in the morning, but rose lively and well, and had my voice more clear and strong in preaching, than it had been for several days. Thur. 28.--I received a strange account from Edward Bennet’s eldest daughter :-- “On Tuesday, the 12th of this month, I told my husband in the morning, ‘I desire you will not go into the water to-day; at least, not into the deep water, on the far side of the town; for I dreamed I saw you there out of your depth,‘and only your head came up just above the water.’ He promised me he would not, and went to work. Soon after four if the afternoon, being at John Hanson’s, his partner’s house, she was on a ' sudden extremely sick, so that for some minutes she seemed just ready to