Wesley Corpus

and cry, " Glory ! glory ! " perhaps twenty times together. Just so do the French Prophets, and very lately the Jumpers in Wales, bring the real work into contempt. Yet whenever we reprove them, it should be in the most mild and gentle manner possible. Tues. 4. In the evening I preached to alovely congregation at Stockport. Friday, 5. I went on, as swiftly as I could, through Manchester, Wigan, and Bolton. APRIL 16. (Being Easter-Day.) I crossed over to Warrington ; where, having read Prayers, preached, and administered the Lord's Supper, I hastened back to Bolton. The House was crowded the more, because of five hundred and fifty children, who are taught in our Sunday-Schools : Such an army of them got about me when I came out of the chapel, that I could scarce disengage myself from them. Mon. 17.-I went on to Blackburn, which was sufficiently crowded; it being the fair-day. No House would contain the people ; so I stood abroad, and expounded that awful scrip- ture, " I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God." All [May, 1786 were still as night, unless when they sung ; then their voices were as the sound ofmany waters. Tues. 18.-I preached at Padiham, Burnley, Southfield, and Colne. Thursday, 20. I went to Otley, and found God was there, both in the evening, andmorning service. Friday, 21. I preached at Yeadon ; where the work of God is rapidly going forward. Such a company of loving children I have nowhere seen, but at Oldham, near Manchester. Sunday, 23. I preached in Haworth church in the morning ; and Bingley church in the afternoon ; but as there were many hundreds that could not get in, Mr. Atmore preached abroad at the same time. In the evening I preached to an huge multitude at Bradford. Surely the people of this town are highly favoured, having both a Vicar and a Curate that preach the truth. Mon. 24.-I preached at Halifax ; Tuesday, 5, at ten in Heptonstall church: (the ugliest I know:) and in the afternoon at Todmorden church. How changed are both the place and the people since I saw them first ! " Lo ! the smiling fields are glad; and the human savages are tame !" Thur. 27. I preached at Greetland at ten; and at Hudders-