Wesley Corpus

preached in our Room about ten, on, " I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ." May God deliver us from this evil disease, which eats out all the heart of religion ! In the evening I preached in the Town-Hall, at Cardiff: But the congregation was almost wholly new. The far greater part of the old society, Ann Jenkins, Thomas Glascot, Arthur Price, Jane Haswell, Nancy Newell, and a long train, are gone hence, and are no more seen. And how few are followers of them, as they were ofChrist ! Mon. 14. Before I reached Monmouth, one met and informed me, that Mr. C., a Justice of the Peace, one of the greatest men in the town, desired I would take a bed at his house. Of consequence, all the rabble of the town were as quiet as lambs ; and we had acomfortable opportunity both night and morning. Surely this is the Lord's doing ! Tues. 15.-We went through miserable roads to Worcester. Wednesday, 16. About ten I preached in the large meeting at [May, 1781. Kidderminster, to a numerous congregation. With much diffi- culty we reached Salop in the evening, and found the people waiting. There has been no tumult since the new House was built. So far God has helped us. Thur. 17. I preached at Whitchurch and Nantwich ; Fri- day, 18, at eleven, in the chapel near Northwich ; and in the evening at Manchester. Sunday, 20. I found much enlarge- ment in applying to a numerous congregation the lovely account given by St. James of " pure religion and undefiled." In the afternoon, I preached a funeral sermon for Mary Charlton, an Israelite indeed. From the hour that she first knew the par- doning love of God, she never lost sight of it for a moment. Eleven years ago, she believed that God had cleansed her from all sin ; and she showed that she had not believed in vain, by her holy and unblamable conversation. Mon. 21. I went over to Warrington, and preached in the evening. Fearing many of the congregation rested in a false peace, I endeavoured to undeceive them, by closely applying those words, " Ye shall know them by their fruits." Tuesday, 22. About eleven, I preached at Chowbent, and in the evening at Bolton ; where the people seemed to be on the wing, just