Wesley Corpus

being too stormy to preach abroad, I preached in the Assembly- Room: All the hearers were serious and well-behaved. I trust some will bring forth fruit with patience. Afterwards I took a survey of the Danish mount near the town; the first I have seen, surrounded with a triple ditch ; but it is not either so high or so large as that near Dundee. Is it not strange, that the Irish, as well as the Scots, should so soon have driven out those merciless robbers who defied all the strength of England for so long a time ? Saturday, 14. I May, 1785.] JOURNAL. found a far greater curiosity, a large Druidical temple. I judged by my eye, that it was not less than a hundred yards in diameter ; and it was, if I remember right, full as entire as Stonehenge, or that at Stanton-Drew. How our ancestors could bring or even heave these enormous stones, what modern cancomprehend ? Inthe evening we found many of our old friends at Limerick were removed to Abraham's bosom. MAY 12. (Being Whit- sunday.) The Service at the cathedral began at eleven, and lasted till three. It concluded a little sooner, by myassisting at the Lord's Supper, at the request ofthe Clergymen. Between five and six, I took my stand near the Custom-House, amidst an innumerable multitude of people ; but they were Wild as the untaught Indian's brood. They made such a wonderful noise, that I judged it best to give them the ground, and retire to our own House. Monday, 16. I restored the select society, whichhad been quite neglected. In the evening I earnestly exhorted all our brethren to set out again in the good old way ; and to runwith patience the race that is set before them . Thur. 17.-In myway to Gort, Iwas met by some of our brethren of Killchrist, a village eight miles beyond it, givingme an invitation from Colonel Pearse, to lodge at his house. He sent me to Killchrist in one of his own carriages. There I found a large number of plain people, to whom I preached in the yard. Thence I returned to the Colonel's ; but the house being full of genteel company, I was as out of my element ; there being no room to talk uponthe only subject which deserves the attention of a rational creature.