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in tears, asked, " Are those tears of serious joy ?" She said, " Ofjoy ! " on which they wept together. From that hour she felt no pain, but enjoyed perfect health. I think our Lord never wrought a plainer miracle, even in the days of his flesh. In the evening I preached onc emore at Rye ; and the word did not fall to the ground. In the morning we left this loving, well united people, and dined at Sevenoaks. After dinner, we spent an hour in the Duke of Dorset's house. I could not but observe some change for the worse here. The silk covers are removed from several of the pictures,particularly that of Count Ugolino and his sons; and it is placed in aworse light ; so that I could hardly discern the little boy that, when he saw his father Oct. 1790.1 497 gnawing his own arm for anguish, cried out, " Papa, if you are hungry, do not eat your own arm, but mine." The preaching- house was filled in the evening with people,and with the pre- sence of God. Sat. 9-. We returned to London. Monday, 11. I went on to Colchester, and still found matter of humiliation. The society was lessened, and cold enough; preaching again was discon- tinued, and the spirit of Methodism quite gone, both from the Preachers and the people : Yet we had awonderful congregation in the evening, rich and poor, Clergy and laity. So we had likewise on Tuesday evening. So that I trust God will at length build up the waste places. Wed. 13. We set out early, but found no horses at Cob- dock ; so that we were obliged to go round by Ipswich, and wait there half an hour. Nevertheless, we got to Norwich between two and three. In the way we read Captain Carrel's Travels, admirably well wrote, and giving, I believe, a just account of the interior parts of North-America. Here is no gay account of the Islands of Pelew, or Lapita, but a plain relation ofmatter of fact. Surely eastern and western savages are much alike ; and some good might be found in the east as well as the west. But to see nature in perfection, either at Pelew, or else- where, we need only look on the savages at Fort-William Henry,