Wesley Corpus

supplied the engines with abundance ofwater ; so that in a little more than two hours, all the danger was over. Mon. 14. In the evening I preached at Bury ; Tuesday, 36 REV. J. WESLEY'S [Nov. 1774. 15, about one at Loddon, to a people the most athirst for God of any I found in the county. In the afternoon I went on to Yarmouth. When was " confusion worse confounded? " Divi- sion after division has torn the once-flourishing society all in pieces. In order to heal the breach, in some measure, I enforced those deep words, " Though I have all knowledge and all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing." One of our former Leaders being asked what he thought of this, frankly answered, " It is damnable doctrine." Thur. 16.-About noon I preached at Lowestoft, where the little flock are remarkably lively. The evening congregation at Yarmouth was all attention ; and truly the power of Godwas present to heal them. In the evening I returned to Norwich. Never was a poor society so neglected as this has been for the year past. The morning preaching was at an end; the bands suffered all to fall in pieces ; and no care at all taken of the classes, so that whether they met or not, it was all one ; going to church and sacrament were forgotten; and the people rambled hither and thither as they listed. On Friday evening I met the society, and told them plain, I was resolved to have a regular society or none. Ithen read the Rules, and desired every one to consider whether he was willing to walk by these Rules or no. Those in particular, of meeting their class every week, unless hindered by distance or sickness, (the only reasons for not meeting which I could allow,) and being constant at church and sacrament. I desired those who were so minded to meet me the next night, and the rest to stay away. The next night we had far the greater part ; on whom I strongly enforced the same thing. Sunday, 20. I spoke to every Leader, concerning every one under his care ; and put out every person whom they could not recommend to me. After this was done, out of two hundred and four mem-