Wesley Corpus

coach ; and before eleven, on Tuesday, 5, reached Colchester. Dec. 1782.] JOUR 2 In order to strengthen this poor feeble society, I stayed with them till Friday, preaching morning and evening, and visiting in the day as many as I could, sick or well. I divided the classes anew, which had been strangely and irregularly jumbled together ; appointed Stewards ; regulated temporal as well as spiritual things ; and left them in a better waythan they had been for several years. Monday, 14, and the followingdays, I visited the societies in and about London. Sun. 24.-I preached at St. Clement's in the Strand, (the largest church I ever preached in at London, except, perhaps, St. Sepulchre's, ) to animmense congregation. I fullydischarged my own soul, and afterwards took coach for Northamptonshire. On Monday, 25, I preached at Towcester ; on Tuesday, at Whittlebury, so called; but the true name of the town is Whittle; on Wednesday, at Northampton ; and on Thursday I returned to London. Friday, 29. I preached at Highgate, in the palace built in the last century by that wretched Duke of Lauderdale ; now one of the most elegant boarding-houses in England. But, alas ! it is not Publow ! Mon. DECEMBER 3.-I preached at St. Neot's, in Hunting- donshire ; Tuesday, 3, at Bugden about one ; and in the evening atHuntingdon. Two Clergymen were there, with one ofwhom Ihadmuch serious conversation. Wednesday, 4. I preached with great enlargement of spirit, to my old congregation at Bedford. Thursday, 5. With some difficulty I crossed the country to Hinxworth, and preached to fifty or sixty plain people, who seemed very willing to learn. In the afternoon, it being impossible todrive a chaise straight round to Luton, I was obliged to go many miles about, and sodid not reach it till after six o'clock ; so I went directly to the preaching-house, and beganwithout delay enforcing those solemn words, " To-day, if ye will hear his voice,harden not your hearts." Fri. 6.-I could procure no other conveyance to St. Alban's but inan open chaise; andhence, (the frost being very sharp,) I contracted a severe cold. Monday, 9. Ihad a better convey- ance into Kent. In the evening I preached at Canterbury ; on Tuesday at Dover ; the next day at Canterbury again. On Thursday, 12, and on Friday morning, I preached at Chatham ;