Wesley Corpus

Sun. 5.-About eight I preached at Ormiston, twelve miles from Edinburgh. The House being small, I stood in the street, and proclaimed " the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ." The congregation behaved with the utmost decency. So did that on the Castle-Hill in Edinburgh, at noon ; though I strongly insisted, that God " now commandeth all men every where to repent." In the evening the House was throughly filled ; and many seemed deeply affected. I do not wonder that Satan, had 18 REV. J. WESLEY'S [June, 1774 . it been in his power, would have had me otherwise employed this day. Wed. 8.-I took my leave of our affectionate friends, and in the evening preached at Dunbar. Thursday, 9. The wind being high, I preached in the Court-House at Alnwick ; but it was intolerably hot. Friday, 10. About eleven I preached in the little Square, adjoining to the preaching-house in Morpeth. In the evening I preached at Newcastle ; and in the morning, Saturday, 11 , set out for the Dales. About noon I preached at Wolsingham, and in the evening near the preaching-house in Weardale. Sun. 12. The rain drove us into the House, both morning and afternoon. Afterwards I met the poor remains of the select society ; but neither ofmy two lovely children, neither Peggy Spence nor Sally Blackburn, were there. Indeed awhole row of such I had seen before ; but three in four ofthem were now as careless as ever. In the evening I sent for Peggy Spence and Sally Blackburn. Peggy came, and I found she had well nigh regained her ground, walking in the light, and having a lively hope of recovering all that she had lost. Sally flatly refused to come, and then ran out of doors. Being found at length, after a flood of tears, she was brought almost by force. But I could not get one look, and hardly aword, from her. She seemed to have no hope left : Yet she is not out of God's reach. I now inquired into the causes of that grievous decay in the vast work of God, which was here two years since ; and I found several causes had concurred: 1. Not one of the Preachers that succeeded was capable of being a nursing-father to the new-born children : 2. Jane Salkeld, one great instrument of the work,