Wesley Corpus

Sun. 27-. I preached at eight in the Room, and at five in the market-place, to a huge congregation. They were deeply attentive ; but no more affected than the stones they stood upon. Mon. 28. I preached in the new preaching-house, at Robin Hood's Bay, and thenwent on to Scarborough. Tuesday, 29, I spent agreeably and profitably with my old friends ; and inmy way toBridlington, Wednesday, 30, took a view ofFlamborough- Head. It is an huge rock, rising perpendicular from the sea to an immense height, which gives shelter to an innumerable multitude of sea-fowl of various kinds. I preached in the evening at Brid July, 1779. ] 157 lington, and afterwards heard a very uncommon instance of paternal affection:-A gentleman of the town had a favourite daughter, whom he set up in a milliner's shop. Some time after she had a concern for her soul, and believed it her duty to enter into the society. Upon this her good father forbad her his house ; demanding all the money he had laid out ; and required her instantly to sell all her goods, in order to make the payment! In this journey I looked over the " History of Whitby," in which are many curious things. Among others, there is an account of St. Ninian, a Monk of Whitby Abbey, long before the Conquest. Here is also an account of the father of the Percy family : He came over with William the Conqueror, and took his name from a town in Normandy. So the pretty tale of piercing the eye of the Scotch King proves to be mere inven- tion! Thur. JULY 1.-This was the first of eighteen or twenty days full as hot as any I remember in Georgia; and yet the season is remarkably healthy. I preached in Beverley at noon, and at Hull in the evening. Saturday, 3. I reached Grimsby, and found a little trial. In this, and many other parts of the kingdom, those striplings, who call themselves Lady Hunting- don's Preachers, have greatly hindered the work of God. They have neither sense, courage, nor grace, to go and beat up the devil's quarters, in any place where Christ has not been named ; but wherever we have entered as by storm, and gathered a few souls, often at the peril of our lives, they creep in, and, by doubt-