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to Gisburn. The church was so full that a few were obliged to stand without the doors. The word was quick and powerful. So it was afterward at Settle. Sufficient for this day was the labour thereof. Mon. 19. I went on to Ambleside ; where, as I was sitting down to supper, I was informed, notice had been given of my preaching, and that the congregationwas waiting. I would not disappoint them; but preached immediately on salvation by faith. Among them were a gentleman and his wife, who gave me a remarkable relation. She said she had often heard her mother relate, what an intimate acquaintance had told her, that her husband was concerned in the Rebellion of 1745. He was tried at Carlisle, and found guilty. The evening before he was todie, sitting andmusing in her chair, she fell fast asleep. She dreamed, one came to her, and said, "Go to such a part of the wall, and among the loose stones you will find akey, which you must carry to your husband." She waked ; but, thinking it a common dream, paid no attention to it. Presently she fell asleep again, and dreamed the very same dream. She started up, put on her cloak and hat, and went to that part of the wall, and among the loose stones found akey. Having, with some difficulty, procured admission into the gaol, she gave this to her husband. It opened the door of his cell, as well as the lock of the prison door. So at midnight he escaped for life. Tues. 20. We went to Whitehaven, where there is a fairer prospect than hasbeen for many years. The society is united in love, not conformed to the world, but labouring to experience the full image of God, wherein they were created. The House was filled in the evening, and much more the next, when we had all the Church Ministers, and mostof the Gentry, in the town ; [April, 1784. but they behaved with as much decency as if they had been colliers. Thur. 22.-I preached in the market-house at Cockermouth. In ourway thence, we had some of the heaviest rain I have seen in Europe. The Sessions being at Carlisle, I could not have the Court-House ; but we had agood opportunity in our own House. Friday, 23. We travelled through a lovely country to