Wesley Corpus

street, which could contain the congregation ; and the noise and tumult there were so great, that I knew not whether I could preach at all: but I spake a few words, and the waves were still. Many appeared deeply attentive. I believe God has taken hold of some of their hearts, and that they will not easily break loose from him. Fri. 1'7.--I preached in the new house at Birstal, already too small for even a week-day’s congregation. After a few days more spent among the neighbouring societies, I returned, by easy journeys, to London. Fri. June 1.--I wrote as follows to the rector and fellows of our college :-- Ego Johannes Wesley, Collegii Lincolniensis in Academia Oxoniensi Socius, quicquid mihi juris est in preedicté Societate, ejusdem Rectori et Sociis sponte ac liberé resigno: Illis universis et singulis perpetuam pacem ac omnimodam in Christo felicitatem exoptans. [I John Wesley, Fellow of Lincoln College, in the University of Oxford, voluntarily and freely resign to the Rector and Fellows thereof whatever right I have in the aforesaid Corporation: Heartily wishing them, collectively and individu ally, perpetual peace, and every species of felicity in Christ.] A few day after I went down to Bristol, where I procured a particular account of one that went to rest some months before. Part of it was as follows :-- ** Elizabeth Walcam was born in March, 1733. From her infancy she was mild and affable. When she was about six years old, she was much in private prayer; and often called her brother and sister to join with her. If she was in any trifling and laughing company, she seldom went further than a little smile. In the whole course of her life she was remarkably dutiful to her parents, and loving to all; mostly in an even frame of spirit ; slow to anger, and soon pacified; tender-hearted to all that were distressed, and a lover of all that was good.