Wesley Corpus

recovery ; and indeed it was a season of solemnjoy ; particularly when I applied those words, " The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day." Fri. 13. I spent some time with poor Richard Henderson, deeply affected with the loss of his only son ; who, with as great talents as most men in England, had lived two-and-thirty years, and done just nothing. Saturday, 14. In the evening I preached in Temple church ; perhaps for the last time, as good Mr. Easterbrook was suddenly taken ill the next day. Well, whatever is, is best. Sunday, 15. Having Mr. Baddiley to assist me in the morning, I preached at Kingswood in the after- noon ; and in the evening, at the Room. We concluded the daywith asolemn and comfortable love-feast. Mon. 16. We set out early, and dined at Stroud, where I had proof that either people or Preachers, or both, had left their first love. I strongly exhorted them to remember from whence they were fallen, and do the first works. God applied hisword, and I suppose two hundred were present at five in the morning. Tuesday, 17. Many were present at Gloucester in the evening ; but they seemed to be little affected. Wednesday, 18. I preached in Tewkesbury at noon. The Room was crowded, and all seemed to feel what theyheard. I was informed that one who, two or three years ago, had carried all his family toAmerica, in quest of golden mountains, had crept back again, being utterly beggared, and forced to leave his family behind him. In the evening the House at Worcester was throughly filled with a deeply-affected congregation ; but we were in great want ofmore room. Indue time God will give us this also . Fri. 20. We went on to Birmingham, still increasing on every side. Hearing the cry of want of business, even in this aswell as most other trading towns in England, I considered what the meaning of it should be; and the case seems plainly this : Two or three years ago, business poured into Birmingham, and consequently more hands were wanting; but when business returned into its usual channel, they were wanted no longer. These men therefore certainly wanted business, and spread the cry over the town. The same must be the case at Manchester,