Wesley Corpus

styled the Half-way House. Quickly after, as a young man was riding by the door, both horse and man tumbled over each other. As soon as he got up, he began cursing his horse. I spoke a few words, and he was calm. He told me, he did fear God once ;_ but for some time past he had cared for nothing. He went away full of good resolutions. | God bring them to good effect! I reached Kingswood in the evening ; and the next day selected passages of Milton for the eldest children tv transcribe and repeat weekly. Thur. 27.--I went into the school, and heard half the children their lessons, and then selected passages of the ‘Moral and Sacred Poems.” Friday, 28.--I heard the other half of the children. Saturday, 29.--I was with them from four to five in the morning. I spent most of the day in revising Kennet’s.“ Antiquities,” and marking what was worth reading in the school. Wed. October 3.--I revised, for the use of the children, Archbishop Potter’s “ Grecian Antiquities ;” a dry, dull, heavy book. Thur. 4.-- I revised Mr. Lewis’s “ Ilebrew Antiquities ;” something more entertaining than the other, and abundantly more instructive. Sat. 6.--I nearly finished the abridgement of Dr. Cave’s “ Primitive Christianity ;* a book wrote with as much learning, and as little judgment, as anv I remember to have read in my whole life; serving the ancient Christians just as Xenophon did Socrates; relating every weak thing they ever said or did. Wed. 10.--I dined at P---- S----’s, who, with his wife and daughter, are wonderful monuments of God’s mercy. They were convinced of the truth -when I first preached at Bristol; and Mrs. Sk was a living witness of it: yet Satan was afterward suffered to sift her as wheat; it seems, to take possession of her bedy. He tormented her many years in an unheard-of manner; but God has now set her at full liberty. Thur. 11.--I prepared a short “ History of England,” for the use of the children; and on Friday and Saturday a short “ Roman History,” as an introduction to the Latin Historians.