Wesley Corpus

dred and ten students ! These all come to their several Colleges inNovember, and return home in May ! So they may study fivemonths in the year, and lounge all the rest ! O where was the common sense of those who instituted such Colleges ? In the English Colleges, every one may reside all the year, as allmy pupils did : And I should have thought myself little better than ahighwayman, if I had not lectured them every day in the year, but Sundays . Wewere so longdetained at the Passage, that I only reached Edinburgh time enough to give notice of my preaching the nextday. After preaching at Dunbar, Alnwick, and Morpeth, on Saturday, JUNE 1, I reached Newcastle. Mon. 3. I visited Sunderland, where the society then con [June,1776. tained three hundred and seventy-two members. Thursday, 6. I preached at Darlington, and Barnard-Castle : On Friday, in Teesdale and Weardale. Here manyrejoicedwithjoyunspeak- able, and seemed determined never to rest till they had reco- vered that great salvation which they enjoyed some years ago. Saturday, 8. As we rode to Sheep-Hill,we saw and heard at a distance, much thunder, and rain, and lightning. The rainwas before and behind, and on each side : But none fell upon us. About six, I preached at Sheep-Hill. It rained hard very near us; but not a drop came upon us. After eight, I reachedNew- castle, thoroughly tired. But anight's rest set me up again. On Monday and Tuesday I met the classes. I left three hun- dred and seventy-four in the society, and I found about four hundred: And I trust they are more established in the " faith that worketh by love." While I was here, I talked largely with a piouswoman,whom Icould not well understand. I could not doubt of her being quite sincere, nay, and much devoted to God : But she had fallen among some well-meaning enthusiasts, who taught her so to attend to the inward voice, as to quit the society, the preaching, the Lord's Supper, and almost all outward means. I find no persons harder to deal with than these. One knows not how to advise them. They must not act contrary to their conscience, though it be an erroneous one. And who can convince them that it is erroneous ? None but the Almighty.