Wesley Corpus

God's Eyes Are over All the Earth Source: The Works of John Wesley, Volume 11 (Zondervan) Author: John Wesley --- MANY years ago, as my eldest brother was walking in the back street of Hackney, a gentleman accosted him, and said, “Sir, I am old, and I would willingly inform you of a remarkable scene of Providence, that it may be remembered when I am gone hence:-I was walking here some time since, (as I frequently do,) early in a morning, when a chariot stopped at a little distance from me, and a young lady, stepping out, ran by me with all her might. A gentleman quickly followed her, caught her, and brought her back; when I just heard her say, ‘What, my dear, will you serve me so?’ Immediately that door over against us opened, and he thrust her in before him. I mused upon it all day and all night, and was very uneasy. In the morning, a gardener which I employed coming in, I asked him, “Do you know such a house in Hackney?’ He answered, ‘Sir, I am going to trim the trees in the garden next to it; and I will make any inquiries which you desire, and bring you back the best account I can. The account he gave me the next morning was this:--When I went to work, I saw over a low hedge a gardener trimming the trees in the other garden; and I asked him, ‘Pray, who lives in that house?” On his answering, ‘A mad Doctor; I asked, “Has he many patients?” He said, ‘I do not know, though I dine in the house; for he never suffers any to see them.’ I said, ‘I will give you a pot of beer, if you can find the name of a young lady that came in a day or two ago. He answered, ‘I cannot promise; but I will do my best when I go in to dinner. When I saw him again, he said, ‘No patient in the house dares speak to any one; and I could get no pen, ink, and paper; but I got a pin and a card, on which a young woman has pricked her name: Here it is.’ I took the card, and knew the name.