Wesley Corpus

In the evening we saw the palace the late elector was building when God called him away. The stone work he had very near finished, and some of the apartments within. It is a beautiful and magnificent design ; but all is now swiftly running to ruin. The new church on the outside resembles a theatre. It is eight square, built of fine freestone. We were desired also to take notice of the great bridge which joins the new with the old town; of the large, brass crucifix upon it, generally admired for the workmanship ; and of the late King Augus- ‘tus’s statue on horseback, which is at a small distance from it. Alas! ‘where will all these things appear, when the earth and the works thereo ‘shall be burned up? Between five and six the next evening, (having left Mr. Hauptman ~with his relations in Dresden,) we came to Neustadt; but could not ‘procure any lodging in the city. After walking half an hour, we came to another little town, and fcund a sort of an inn there: but they told us plainly, we should have no lodging with them ; for they did not like our looks. About eight we were received at a little house in another village, where God gave us sweet rest. Tues. Aug. 1.--At three in the afternoon I came to Hernhuth, about thirty English miles from Dresden. It lies in Upper Lusatia, on the border of Bohemia, and contains about a hundred houses, built on a rising ground, with evergreen woods on two sides, gardens and cornfields on the others, and high hills at a small distance. It has one long street, through which the great road from Zittau to Lébau goes. Fronting the middle of this street is the Orphan house ; in the lower part of which is the apothecary’s shop, in the upper, the chapel, capable of containing six or seven hundred people. Another row of houses runs at a small distance from either end of the Orphan house, which accord- _ ingly divides the rest of the town (besides the long street) into two squares. At the east end of it is the count’s house; a small, plain building like the rest: having a large garden behind it, well laid out, not for show but for the use of the community.