Wesley Corpus

from sin, although exceedingly depressed by the tottering tene- ment of clay. About noon I spent an hour with her poor scholars ; forty of whom she has provided with a serious master, who takes pains to instruct them in the principles of religion, as well as in reading andwriting. A famous actress, just come down from London, which, for the honour of Scotland, just during the sitting of the Assembly, stole away a great part of our congregation to-night. How much wiser are these Scots than their forefathers ! Sun. 23. I went in the morning to the Tolbooth kirk ; in the afternoon, to the old Episcopal chapel. But they have lost their glorying ; they talked, the moment Service was done, as if they had been in London. In the evening the Octagon was well filled; and I applied, with all possible plainness, “ God is a Spirit ; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Mon. 24. I preached at Dunbar. Tuesday, 25. I spent an hour with Mr. and Mrs. F., a woman everyway accomplished. [June, 1784. Neither of them had ever yet heard a sermon out ofthe kirk ; but they ventured that evening , and I am inhope theydidnot hear in vain. Wednesday, 26. We went on to Berwick-upon- Tweed. The congregation in the Town-Hall was very nume- rous. So it was likewise at five in the morning. Thursday, 27. We travelled through a delightful country to Kelso. Here the two Seceding Ministers have takentrue pains to frightenthe people from hearing us, by retailing all the ribaldry of Mr. Cudworth, Toplady, and Rowland Hill. But God has called one of them to his account already, and in a fearful manner. As no house could contain the congregation, I preached in the church-yard; and a more decent behaviour I have scarce ever seen. Afterwards we walked to the Duke of Roxburgh's seat, about half a mile from the town, finely situated on a rising ground, near the ruins of Roxburgh Castle. It has a noble Castle ; the front, and the offices round, make it look like a little town. Most of the apartments within are finished in an elegant, but not in a costly, manner. I doubt whether two of Mr. Lascelles's rooms, at Harewood House, did not cost more in