Wesley Corpus

-About noon I preached in the Town-Hall at Eves- ham, to a congregation of a very different kind. Few of them, I doubt, came from any other motive than to gratify their curi- osity. However, they were deeply attentive ; so that some of them, I trust, went away a little wiser than they came. I had been informed that Mr. Weston, the Minister of Campden, was willing I should preach in his church ; but, before I came, he had changed his mind. However, the Vicar of Pebworth was no weathercock ; so I preached in his church, Sunday, 24, morning and evening; and, I believe, not invain. -I went on to Birmingham. I was surprised to hear that a good deal of platina was used there ; but, upon inquiry, I found it was not the true platina, an original metal between gold and silver, (being in weight nearest to gold, even as eighteen to nineteen,) but a mere compound of brass and spelter. I preached at Dudley, in the midst of Antino- mians and backsliders, on , " We beseech you not to receive the 70 REV. J. WESLEY'S April, 1776. grace of God in vain." In the evening I preached to our old flock at Wednesbury ; and the old spirit was among them. -About eight I preached to avery large congregation even at Wolverhampton; and at six in the evening, to a mixed multitude in the market-place at Newcastle-under-Lyne. All were quiet now; the gentleman who made adisturbance when I was here last having been soon after called to his account. I preached at Congleton. The Minister here having much disobliged his parishioners, most of the Gentry in thetowncame to the preaching, both at two in the afternoon, and in the evening ; and it was an acceptable time : I believe very few, rich or poor, came in vain. Mon. APRIL 1.-I went on to Macclesfield. That evening I preached in the House ; but it being far too small, on Tues- day, 2, I preached on the Green, near Mr. Ryle's door. There are no mockers here, and scarce an inattentive hearer. So mightily has the word of God prevailed ! -Having climbed over the mountains, I preached at the New-Mills, in Derbyshire. The people here are quite