Wesley Corpus

Fri. June 1.--I rode over the mountains to Shronill, and found a handful of serious, loving people. I preached in the evening and . morning, Saturday, 2; and then went on to Limerick. Sunday, 3. --(Being Whit Sunday.) Our morning service began, as usual, at four o’clock. In the evening I preached at Mazdyke, to four or five times. as many as our church would have contained ; and my voice would now command them all: it was weak till I went to Cork; but in the midst of the drumming it was restored, and has never failed me since. Mon. 4.--I rode to Newmarket, a village near the Shannon, eight miles, as they call it, from Limerick. I found the spirit of the people while I was preaching, but much more in examining the society. Four or five times I was stopped short, and could not go on, being not able to speak ; particularly when I was talking with a child, about nine years old, whose words astonished all that heard. ‘The same spirit we found in prayer ; so that my voice was well nigh lost among the various cries of the people. Tues. 5.--I returned to Limerick. In examining the society here, I could not but take particular notice of about sixty of the Highland regiment of soldiers,--men fit to appear before princes. Their zeal, “ according to knowledge,” has stirred up many; and they still speak for God, and are not ashamed. Wed. 13.--I rode to Shronill again; and in the morning, Thur. 14, to Clonmell. After an hour’s rest we set forward, but,were obliged to stop in the afternoon, sooner than we designed, by my horse’s having a shoe loose. ‘The poor man, at whose house we called, was not only a epee ae 7h a June, 1750. | REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. 4893 patient of exhortation, but exceeding thankful for it. We afterward missed our way; so that it was near eight o’clock before we got over the ferry, a mile short of Waterford.