Wesley Corpus

and afterwards talked with a girl sixteen years of age. She was justified two months since, and has not yet lost the sight of God's countenance for a moment; but has been enabled to rejoice evermore, and to pray without ceasing. But being sur- rounded with relations who neither loved nor feared God, they were pressing upon her continually, till by little and little she 144 REV. J. WESLEY'S [March, 1779. sunk back into the world, and had neither the power nor form of religion left. Sun. 21. I returned to Norwich, and took an exact account of the society. I wish all our Preachers would be accurate in their accounts, and rather speak under than above the truth. I had heard again and again of the increase of the society. And what is the naked truth ? Why, I left in it two hundred and two members ; and I find one hundred and seventy-nine ! Sun- day, 21. At twelve I took coach, and in the morning reached London. Sun. 28.-Immediately after preaching at Spitalfields, I hasted away to St. Peter's, Cornhill, and declared to a crowded congregation, " God hath given us his Holy Spirit." At four I preached in the new chapel, for the benefit of the Reformation Society. This also I trust will be a means of uniting together the hearts of the children of God of various denominations. Mon. MARCH 1.-I went to Bristol. Thursday, 4. I went over to Paulton, and preached at noon to the liveliest people in all the Circuit. This people are now just of the same spirit as those of Bristol were forty years ago. Thur. 11.-I opened the new chapel at Bath. It is about half as large as that at London, and built nearly uponthe same model. After reading Prayers, I preached on, " We preach Christ crucified; to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness." I believe God sent his word home to many hearts. We concluded the service with the Lord's Supper. Mon. 15. I began my tour through England and Scotland; the lovely weather continuing, such as the oldest man alive has not seen before, for January, February, and half of March. In the evening I preached at Stroud, the next morning at Glou- cester, designing to preach in Stanley at two, and at Tewkesbury