Wesley Corpus

gregation, in the morning, of rich as well as poor. But who is able effectually to warn these to flee from the wrath to come ? At eleven I preached in an open place at Newtown, sixteen miles from Londonderry. In the evening we had, at Coleraine, a larger congregation than at Clones itself; and they seemed a more intelligent people than most I have met with. Indeed, the whole town is different from all that I have seen. There is no hurry or noise, but all quiet and still, both by day and by night ; so that nowonder somany here receive the Gospel of peace, and " bring forth fruit unto perfection." Tues. 7.-I accepted the offer of the Presbyterian meeting ; and preached there at noon, and at six in the evening. Wed- nesday, 8. After preaching in the morning, I left many of the loving people in tears, andwent on to Ballymoney ; where I preached in the Court-House, to a very civil, and avery dull, congregation. From hence we went to Ballymena. In the after- noon I walked over to Gracehill, the Moravian settlement. Beside many little houses for them that are married, they have three large buildings ; (on the same planwith that at Fulneck ;) having the chapel in the middle, the house for the single men onthe left hand, that for the single women on the right. We spent one or two agreeable hours in seeing the several rooms. Nothing can exceed the neatness of the rooms, or the courtesy of the inhabitants: But ifthey have most courtesy, we have more love. We do not suffer a stranger, especially a Christian brother, to visit us, without asking him either " to bite or sup." "But it is their way." Iam sorry to say, so itis When I June, 1785.1 called on Bishop Antone, in Holland, an old acquaintance, whom I had not seen for six-and-forty years, till both he and I were grown grey-headed, he did not ask me so much as to wet my lips . Is not this ashameful way ? Away, contrary not only to Christianity, but to common humanity ? Is it not a way that a Jew, a Mahometan, yea, an honest Heathen, would be ashamed of? Having now finished an ingenious book,LeVrayer's "Animad- versions on the Ancient Historians," I thought a few passages