Wesley Corpus

84 REV. J. WESLEY'S [Aug.1776 carried every scrap ofit away." Butis there no way to prevent this shameful breach of all the laws both of religion and humanity ? Indeed there is. The Gentry of Cornwallmay totally prevent it whenever they please. Let them only see that the laws be strictly executed upon the next plunderers ; and after an example is made of ten of these, the next wreck will be unmolested. Nay, there is a milderway. Let them only agree together, to discharge any tinner or labourer that is concerned in the plundering ofa wreck, and advertise his name, that no Cornish gentleman may employ him any more ; and neither tinner nor labourer will any more be concerned in that bad work. Sun. 18. The passage through the sands being bad for a chaise, I rode on horseback to St. Agnes, where the rain con- strained me to preach in the House. As we rode back to Redruth, it poured down amain, and found its way throughall our clothes. I was tired when I came in ; but after sleeping quarter of an hour all my weariness was gone. Mon. 19. I joined together once more the select society, who are continually flying asunder, though they allacknowledge the loss they have sustained thereby. At eleven I met fifty or sixty children. How muchdepends upon these ! All the hope of the rising generation. Tuesday, 20. In the evening I preached at Helstone, where prejudice is at an end ; and all the town, except a few Gentry, willingly hear the word ofsalvation. Wed. 21. I preached at Penzancein a gentleman's balcony, which commanded the market-place,to ahuge congregation, on, "Without holiness no man shall see the Lord." The word fell heavy, upon high and low, rich and poor. Such an opportunity I never had at Penzance before. Thur. 22.-I preached at six in the market-place at St. Just's. Two or three well-dressed people walked by, stopped a little, and then went on. So they did two or three times. Had it not been for shame, they might have heard that which is able to save their souls. Fri. 23. The congregation, both morning and evening, was large ; and great was our rejoicing in the Lord. Saturday, 24. In the evening I preached in a meadow at St. Ives, to one of