Wesley Corpus

with them: they are the people of God; I know they are. How sweet they look! Don’t they look different from other people? Come, mother, let us praise God; I am always better after prayer. ‘O fora thousand tongues to sing my dear Redeemer’s praise!’ O how great is my rejoicing! I shall be whiter than the driven snow.” Soon after she sald, “Iam refreshed ; indeed lam. Weshall see him on his great white throne. There we shall see him face to face. My dear Jesus! Praise Jesus : why don’t you praise Jesus? Praise my God: he is making intercession for me; he is: the Lord loves me; I know he does.” To her mother she said, “ What a blessed thing it is, that you have brought up a child for the Lord !” “«She continued praying and praising God till the 25th, when her breath was so short, that she could say nothing but “ Jesus.” This she uttered continually as she could, till, about six in the evening, she resigned her spirit, without any sigh or groan, or alteration in her countenance, which had the same sweetness as when she was living. She lived on earth sixteen years, nine mouths, and eighteen days.’ ” Fri. 22.--- I drew up a short account of the case of Kingswood school. 1. The school began on Midsummer day, 1748. The first schoolmasters were J J----, T---- R--_,, W. Ss , R---- M----,, W S----, and A---- G----. The rules were printed; and notwithstanding the strictness of them, in two or three months we had twenty-eight scholars: so that the family, including M D , the housekeeper, R T----.,, our man, and four maid servants, consisted of forty persons.