Wesley Corpus

little society. One desiring me to step into a house there, it was filled presently ; and the poor people were all ear, while I gave a short exhortation, and spent a few minutes in prayer. In the evening as the Town-Hall at Carrickfergus could not contain the congregation, I preached in the market-house, on, "Fear God, and keep his commandments ; for this is the wholeofman." The people in general appeared to be more serious, and the society more earnest, than they had been for many years. Thence we went to Belfast, the largest town in Ulster, said to contain thirty thousand souls. The streets are well laid out ; are broad, straight, and well-built. The poor-house stands on an eminence, fronting the main street, and having a beautiful prospect on every side, over the whole country : The old men, the old women, the male and the female children, are all employed according to their strength ; and all their apartments are airy, sweet, and clean, equal to any thing ofthe kind I have seeninEngland. I preached in the evening on one side of the new church, to farthe largest congregation I havescen in Ireland; but I doubt the bulk of them were nearly concerned in mytext, " And Gal- lio caredfor none of these things. " Thur. 11. About nine I preached to five or six hundred people in the old church at Newtown, Clannibois. The sight of these vast buildings and large gardens running to decay, through the extinction of the family that lately ownedthem, (so success- ful was the scheme of those wretches who purposely educated poor Mr. C.-, the last of the family, in such a manner as to insure his not living long, and his dying without issue,) always makes me pensive; but still our comfort is, " There is aGodthat judgeth in the earth." About twelve I preached at Kirkhubly: Thence we went to Port-a-ferry, and foundaready passage to Strangford. I stood [June, 1778. on the point of a rock, which projected into a large circular cavity, that contained inthe hollow, and round the edge of it, all the multitude who flocked together. I spoke longer than I used to do ; and was no more weary when I had done, than I was at six it the morning. After servicewe went to Down- patrick, where I slept in peace.