Wesley Corpus

Sat. 23.--I spoke severally with those who had been so troubled the night before. Some of them I found were only convinced of sin; others had indeed found rest to their souls. This evening another was seized with strong pangs: but ina short time her soul was delivered. Sun. 24. --As I was riding to Rose Green, in a smooth, plain part of the road, my horse suddenly pitched upon his head, and rolled over and over. I received no other hurt than a little bruise on one side; which for the present I felt not, but preached without pain to six or seven thousand people on that important direction, ‘‘ Whether ye eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” In the evening a girl of thirteen or fourteen, and four or five other persons, some of whom had felt the power of God before, were deeply convinced of sin; and with sighs and groans which could not be uttered called upon God for deliverance. Mon. 25.--About ten in the morning, J. eC r, as she was sitting at work, was suddenly seized with grievous terrors of mind, Journal I.--10. 142 REV. J. WESLEY'S JOURNAL. | June, 1739. attended with strong trembling. Thus she continued all the afternoon; but ‘at the society in the evening God turned her heaviness into joyFive or six others were also cut to the heart this day; and soon after found Him whose hands made whole: as did one likewise, who had been mourning many months, without any to comfort her. Tues. 26 --I preached near the house we had a few days before began to build for a school, in the middle of Kingswood, under a little sycamore tree, during a violent storm of rain, on those words, “ As the rain cometh down from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud:--so shall my word be that goeth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void. But it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Three persons terribly felt the wrath of God abiding on them at the society this evening. But upon prayer made in their behalf, he was pleased soon to lift up the light of his countenance upon them.