Wesley Corpus

not stir till about eight the next evening. We had asmall, fair wind. From Fishgard to Dublin is about forty leagues. We had run ten or twelve, till, atabout eight in the morning, Friday, 3, it fell dead calm. The swell was then such as I never felt before, except in the Bay of Biscay. Our little sloop, between twenty and thirty tons, rolled to and fro witha wonderful motion. Aboutnine, the Captain, finding he could not get forward, would have returned, but he could make no way. About eleven I desired we might go to prayer. Quickly after the wind sprung up fair; but it increased, till, about eight at night, it blew a [Oct. 1777. storm, and it was pitch dark ; so that,having only the Captain and a boy on board, we had much ado to work the vessel. However, about ten, though we scarce know how, we got safe into Dublin Bay. Sat. 4.-Between seven and eight I landed at Ring's End. Mr. M'Kenny met me, and carried me to his house. Our friends presently flocked from all quarters, and seemed equally surprised and pleased at seeing me. I moved no dispute, but desired a few of each side tomeet me together at tenon Mondaymorning. In the evening, although on so short a warning, we had an exceeding large congregation ; on whom (waiving all matter of contention) I strongly enforced those solemn words, " I must work the works of Him that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh, when no man can work." Sun. 5.-I was much comforted at St. Patrick's, where an uncommon awe seemed to rest on the whole assembly. In the evening I preached on Eph. iv. 30, &c., being the conclusion of the Epistle for the day. Nothing could be more seasonable, and I read it as a presage of good. Mon. 6.-At ten I met the contending parties ; the Preachers on one hand, and the excluded members on the other : I heard them at large, and they pleaded their several causes with earnest- ness and calmness too. But four hours were too short to hear the whole cause ; so we adjourned to the next day : Meantime, in order to judge inwhat statethe society reallywas, I examined them myself ; meeting part of them to-day, and the rest on