Wesley Corpus

which I preached inat Antrim ; and the people behaved exceed- ing well ; the children as well as the rest. In the evening I was at the new chapel at Lisburn, the largest and best-finished in the north of Ireland. Sunday, 7. It was well filled at nine. We went to church alittle before twelve, where the singingwas admirably good ; the Clerk who teaches them to sing, having been formerly a Leader in our society. The day continuing stormy, I could not preach in the street, but we were glad to retreat into the Linen-Hall. Here was such a congregation as I have not seen since I came into the kingdom ; but some things, called gentlemen, were walking to and fro, and talking during the greatest part of the sermon. If these had been poor men, probably they would have had common sense. Themeeting of the society which followed, at which we permitted many others to be present, was exceeding solemn. The power of God fell uponmany. I observed one gentlewoman in particular, that wept and trembled exceedingly. I did not wonder, therefore, June, 1789.1 that the Room was filled at five; and that we had a parting blessing. Mon. 8.-We went on to Belfast. I had at first thought of preaching in the Linen-Hall ; but the weather being very uncertain, I went to the heads of the large meeting-house, to desire the use of it, which they granted in the most obliging manner. It is the completest place of public worship I have ever seen . It is of an oval form ; as I judge by my eye, a hun- dred feet long, and seventy or eighty broad. It is very lofty, and has two rows of large windows ; so that it is as light as our new chapel in London : And the rows ofpillars, with every other part, are so finely proportioned, that it is beautiful in the highest degree. The House was so crowded both within and without, (and indeed with some of the most respectable persons in the town,) that it was with the utmost difficulty I got in; but I then found I went not up without the Lord. Great was my liberty of speech among them; great was our glorying in the Lord : So that I gave notice, contrary to my first design, of my intending