Wesley Corpus

And whether our thoughts and affections are dissipated, scattered from God, by women, or food, or dress, or one or ten thousand pretty trifles, that dissipation (innocent as it may seem) is equally subversive of all real virtue and all real happiness. It carries its own punishment: Though we are loaded with blessings, it often makes our very existence a burden; and, by an unaccountable anxiety, gives a foretaste of what it is to be “punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord!” March 26, 1783. WHEN two or three persons are in a coach, and draw up the glasses, it is observed they become so covered with dew, that we can scarce see through them; but when that is once wiped off, there is no more dew gathered upon the glass, but it continues transparent. You will oblige your readers with the reason of this phenomenon. THE ANswer. THE reason is, that in comparison of the moist vapours that come from the persons in the coach, the glass is cold, and condenses them, remaining cold longer than any other part of the coach; as we find in damp weather, that marble will become wet by condensing the moisture of the air. Then by degrees, the glass, partaking of the warmth of the persons in the coach, is no longer able to condense the floating vapours into water. The proof of this is plain by letting down the glass into its place, because there it cools, and then being brought up it again condenses the vapour and gathers a dew; without which it would not condense the vapour, though in many hours’ travelling. PHILIP VERHEYEN, Doctor of Physic, in the University of Louvain, and Royal Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, was, towards the end of the last and in the beginning of the present century, one of the most eminent Physicians in Europe. He died at Louvain on the 28th of February, 1710, aged sixty-two. He was a man of eminent piety, wholly detached both from the goods and glory of this world. He gave orders not to bury him in the church, but in the churchyard; all the will which he left being in the following words : Philippus Verheyen, Medicinae Doctor et Professor, partem sui materialem hoc in caemeterio condi voluit, ne templum dehonestaret, aut nocivis halitibus inficeret. Requiescat in Apace.