Wesley Corpus

do not love our hours, and will therefore order dinner to be on table between two and three o'clock." Wehad a piece of boiled beef, and an English pudding. This is true good breeding. The Bishop is entirely easy and unaffected in his whole beha- viour, exemplary in all parts of public worship, and plenteous ingoodworks. Wed. 7.-About noon I preached a few miles from Strabane ; in the evening at Lisleen; and the next at Castle-Caulfield. In the night the rain came plentifully through the thatch, into my lodging-room. But I found no present inconvenience, and was not careful for the morrow. Fri. 9. I preached at eight to a numerous congregation, in the market-place at Dungannon ; at eleven, and at five in the afternoon, in the main street at Charlemount. I lodged at a gentleman's, who showed me a flower, which he called a Gummy Cystus. It blooms in the morning, with a large, beautiful, snow-white flower ; but every flower dies in the even- ing. New flowers blow and fall every day. Does not this short-lived flower answer to that short-lived animal, the Ephe- meron-fly ? Sat. 10-. I preached at nine to a large congregation, at Killeman. The rain began as soon as I concluded ; but it ceased time enough forme to preach in Mr. M'Gough's avenue, atArmagh. JUNE 11.-(Being Trinity-Sunday.) I preached at nine on, " So God created man in his own image;" and in the evening, to an huge congregation. But I could not find the way to their hearts. Mon. 12. Having taken a solemn leave of Armagh, about eleven I preached at Blackwater ; and in the evening at Clan- main, where many seemed cut to the heart. O, why should they heal the wound slightly ! Tues. 13. I was not very well in the morning, but sup- posed it would soon go off. In the afternoon, the weather being extremely hot, I lay down on the grass, in Mr. Lark's orchard, at Cock-Hill. This I had been accustomed to do for forty years, and never remember to have been hurt by it : Only I never before lay on my face ; in which posture I fell asleep. I waked a little, and but a little, out of order, and preached with 48 REV. J. WESLEY'S [June, 1775.