Wesley Corpus

Sat. 16.--I spent an hour or two at Nottingham, and then rode on to Markfield. At eight I preached. ‘The church was pretty well filled, and God gave a blessing with his word. Sun. 1'7.--Desiring to improve the time we had, I preached at eleven in the morning, and in the evening. Monday, 18.--I rode to Wednesbury; and, after two or three days spent there and at Birmingham, on Thursday, 21, came to London. Sun. 31.--I preached at seven in Moorfields to a large and well behaved congregation. Mr. Bateman desired me to preach a charity sermon at his church, St. Bartholomew the Great, in the afternoon but it was with much difficulty that I got in; not only the church itself, but all the entrances to it, being so thronged with people ready to tread upon one another. The great noise made me afraid at first, that my labour would be in vain; but that fear was soon over; for all was still, as soon as the service began. I hope God gave us this day a token for good. If he will work, who shall stay his hand? Thur. June 4.-- I veduced the sixteen stewards to seven; to whom were given the following instructions :-- “J. You are to be men full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, that you may do all things in a manner acceptable to God. i! Jime, 1747. | REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 399 “2 You are to be present every Tuesday and Thursdav morning, in order to transact the temporal affairs of the society. e “3 You are to begin and end every meeting with earnest prayer unto God, for a blessing on all your undertakings. “4, You are to produce your accounts the first Tuesday in every month tha! they may be transcribed into the ledger. “5. You are to take it in turn, month by month, to be chairman. The chairman is to see, that all the rules be punctually observed, and immediately to check him whe breaks any of them. “6. You are to do nothing without the consent of the minister, either actually had, or reasonably presumed. “7. You are to consider, whenever you meet, ‘God is here.’ 'Therefore, be deeply serious: utter no trifling word : speak as in his presence, and to the glory of his great name.