Wesley Corpus

I should not far exceed the truth if I said so. But here I saw a descendant of fallen Adam, so fully raised above the ruins of the fall, that though by the body he was tied down to earth, yet was his whole ‘conversa tion in heaven; yet was his life, from day to day, ‘hid with Christ in God.” Prayer, praise, love, and zeal, all ardent, elevated above what one would think attainable in this state of frailty, were the element in which he himself continually lived. And as to others, his one employment was, to call, entreat, and urge them to ascend with him to the glorious Source of being and blessedness. He had leisure compara tively for nothing else. Languages, arts, sciences, grammar, 1'hetoric, logic, even divinity itself, as it is called, were all laid aside, when he appeared in the school-room among the 1students. His full heart would not suffer him to be silent. He must speak; and they were readier to hearken to this servant and Minister of Jesus Christ, than to attend to Sallust, Virgil, Cicero, or any Latin or Greek historian, poet, or philosopher they were reading. And they seldom hearkened long, before they were all in tears, and every heart catched fire from the flame that burned in his soul. 10. “These seasons generally terminated in this: Being convinced that to be “filled with the Holy Ghost’ was a better qualification for the ministry of the gospel than any classical learning, (though that too may be useful in its place,) after speaking awhile in the school-room, he used frequently to say, “As many of you as are athirst for this fulness of the Spirit, follow me into my room.” On this, many of us have instantly followed him, and there continued till noon, wrestling like Jacob for the blessing, praying one after another, till we could bear to kneel no longer. This was not done once or twice, but many times.