Wesley Corpus

I canby no means regret either the trouble or expense which attended this little journey. It opened me away into, as it were, a new world ; where the land, the buildings, the people, the customs, were all such as I had never seen before. But as those with whom I conversed were of the same spirit with my friends in England, I was as much at home in Utrecht and Amsterdam, as in Bristol and London. Sun. 6.-We rejoiced to meet once more with our English friends in the new chapel ; who were refreshed with the account of the gracious work which God is working in Holland also. Wed. 9. I spent a melancholy hourwith Mr. M., and several others, who charged him with speaking grievous things of me, which he thenknew to be utterly false. If he acknowledges his fault, I believe he will recover ; if not, his sickness is unto death. These four days, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri- day, were as hot as the midsummer days in Jamaica. The summer heat in Jamaica usually raises the thermometer to about eighty degrees. The quicksilver in my thermometer now rose toeighty-two. Mon. 14. I took a littlejourney into Oxfordshire, and found the good effects of the late storms. The thunder had been uncommonly dreadful ; and the lightning had tore up a field near High-Wycomb, and turned the potatoes into ashes. In the evening I preached in the new preaching-house at Oxford, a lightsome, cheerful place, and well filled with rich and poor, scholars as well as townsmen. Tuesday, 15. Walking through 258 REV. J. WESLEY'S [July, 1783. the city, I observed it swiftly improving in everything but reli- gion. Observing narrowly the Hall at Christ-Church, I was convinced it is both loftier and larger than that of the Stadt House in Amsterdam. I observed also, the gardens and walks in Holland, although extremely pleasant, were not to be com- pared with St. John's, or Trinity gardens ; much less with the parks, Magdalen water-walks,&c., Christ-Church meadow, or the White-walk. Wed. 16.-I went on to Witney. There were uncommon thunder and lightning here last Thursday ; but nothing to that which were there on Fridaynight. About ten the storm was just overthe town ; and both the bursts of thunderand lightning, or rather sheets of flame, were without intermission. Those that