Wesley Corpus

3. William Kirkman’s case proves only, that God does what pleases him; not that I make myself either “a great saint or a great Physician.” (Page 137.) 4. “R.A. was freed at once, without any human means, from a distemper naturally incurable.” (Page 138.) He was; but it was before I knew him. So, what is that to me? 5. “I found Mr. Lunell in a violent fever. He revived the moment he saw me, and began to recover from that time. Perhaps for this also was I sent.” (Ibid.) I mean, Perhaps this was one end for which the providence of God brought me thither at that time. 6. “In the evening, I called upon Ann Calcut. She had been speechless for some time. But almost as soon as we began to pray, God restored her speech. And from that hour the fever left her.” 7. “I visited several ill of the spotted 124 LETTER. To TIl E fever, which had been extremely mortal. But God had said, * Hitherto shalt thou come.’ I believe there was not one with whom we were, but he recovered.” (Page 139.) 8. “Mr. Meyrick had been speechless and senseless for some time. A few of us joined in prayer. Before we had done, his sense and his speech returned. Others may account for this by natural causes. I believe this is the power of God.” (Ibid.) But what does all this prove? Not that I claim any gift above other men; but only that I believe God now hears and answers prayer, even beyond the ordinary course of nature: Otherwise, the Clerk was in the right, who, in order to prevent the fana ticism of his Rector, told him, “Sir, you should not pray for fair weather yet; for the moon does not change till Saturday.” While the two accounts (pp. 143, 146) which are next recited lay before me, a venerable old Clergyman calling upon me, I asked him, “Sir, would you advise me to publish these strange relations, or not?” He answered, “Are you sure of the facts?” I replied, “As sure as that I am alive.” “Then,” said he, “publish them in God’s name, and be not careful about the event.” The short of the case is this: Two young women were tor mented of the devil in an uncommon manner.