Wesley Corpus

I was greatly surprised : Not only the matter ofwhat they spoke was rational and scriptural, but the language, yea, and the manner, were exactly proper. Who teacheth like Him ? Mon. 18.-I left our friends at Bristol with satisfaction ; hav- ing beenmuch refreshed among them. In the evening and the next day, I preached at Stroud ; Wednesday, 20, at Glouces- ter, Tewkesbury, and Worcester. Fri. 22. About two in the morning we had such a storm as I never remember. Before it began, our chamber-door clattered to and fro exceedingly : So it sounded to us; although, in fact, it did not move at all. I then distinctly heard the door open, and, having a light, rose and went to it ; but it was fast shut. Meantime the window was wide open : I shut it, andwent to sleep again. So deep a snow fell in the night, that wewere afraid the roads would be impassable. However, we set out in the afternoon, and made shift to get to Kidderminster. We had a large congregation in the evening, though it was intensely cold ; and another at seven in the morning, Saturday, 23 ; and all of them were deeply serious. It was with a good deal of difficulty we got to Bridgenorth, much of the road being blocked up with snow. In the afternoon we had another kind of diffi- culty : The roads were so rough and so deep, that we were in danger, every now and then, of leaving our wheels behind us. But, by adding two horses to my own, at length we got safe to Madeley. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher complained, that, after all the pains they had taken, they could not prevail on the people to join in society, no nor even to meet in a class. Resolving to try, I preached to a crowded audience, on, " I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ." I followed the blow in the afternoon, by strongly applying those words, " Awake, thou that sleepest ; " and then enforcing the necessity of Christian fellowship on all who desired either to awake or keep awake. I then desired those that were willing to join together for this purpose, to call upon Mr. Fletcher and me after Service. Ninety-four or ninetyWe